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Differentiating the top English Premier League football clubs from the rest of the pack: Identifying the keys to success

This paper develops a robust, statistically significant, six independent variable multiple regression model that accounts for the relative success of English Premier League football clubs based on an array of twenty-four pitch actions collected during the 2007-2008 season (p<0.0000). Additionally, one-way ANOVA is used to identify those specific pitch actions that statistically separate the top 4 clubs from (1) the dozen clubs forming the middle of the pack and, (2) by a greater contrast, the bottom 4 clubs. Thirteen pitch actions yield statistically significant differences among these three tiers of clubs using this second method of analysis.
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Bibliographic Details
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Notations:technical and natural sciences organisations and events sport games
Published in:Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2202/1559-0410.1183
Volume:5
Issue:3
Document types:article
Level:advanced