Football is becoming more predictable; network analysis of 88 thousand matches in 11 major leagues.

R Soc Open Sci · 2021 · PMC8672071 · PMID 34925866

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A positive trend in predictability is observed in most of the cases (England, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland and Spain) and, for the cases of the top leagues (England, Germany, Portugal and Spain), the graphical intuition is corroborated by a comparison between the earlier and later parts of their respective samples using the Student t -test.

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