Browsing by Author "Guajardo, Mario"

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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 ...
    • Referee assignment in the Chilean football league using integer programming and patterns 
      Alarcón Lorca, Fernando Esteban; Durán Maggiolo, Guillermo; Guajardo, Mario (John Wiley & Sons, 2014)
      This article uses integer linear programming to address the referee assignment problem in the First Division of the Chilean professional football league. The proposed approach considers balance in the number of matches ...