Browsing by Subject "Football"

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    • An analytics approach to the FIFA ranking procedure and the World Cup final draw 
      Cea, Sebastián; Durán, Guillermo; Guajardo, Mario; Sauré Valenzuela, Denis; Siebert Sandoval, Joaquín; Zamorano, Gonzalo (Springer, 2020)
      This paper analyzes the procedure used by FIFA up until 2018 to rank national football teams and define by random draw the groups for the initial phase of the World Cup finals. A predictive model is calibrated to form a ...
    • Scheduling the South American qualifiers to the 2018 FIFA World Cup by integer programming 
      Durán, Guillermo; Guajardo, Mario; Sauré Valenzuela, Denis (Elsevier, 2017)
      Every four years, the 10 national teams members of the South American Football Confederation (CON- MEBOL) compete for one of the South American slots in the final phase of the FIFA World Cup. The qual- ifying competition ...