Map to greatness: New software uses social-network analysis to measure how well a soccer team plays in a match, such as the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship final between Germany and Spain shown here.
Goooal! Scientists Score in Ranking Soccer Stars
Nice article in Science about how to leverage social network analysis to understand soccer games.
This raises some questions like: do the number of facebook friends of PL players influence their rankings?
Great finding, Mr B. And it seems rather reliable.
ReplyDeletePlus I love the way the authors use their modelization to stigmatize at the end their colleagues work and help.
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced we should call ourselves not PL but "OuProPo" (untranslatable: potential prognosis community).