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How strong are soccer teams? The ‘Host paradox’ and other counterintuitive properties of the FIFA’s ranking
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2019.
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Abstract
- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'} FIFA's ranking of national soccer teams is plagued with paradoxes. One surprising paradox is a dramatic underrating of the hosts of main tournaments. The hosts, who are absent from the preliminaries, for a long time, play only friendlies that award few points. Three models estimate the magnitude of the resulting “Host Effect” at 14.1-16.7 positions. Such an estimate goes against the intuition that a large investment in hosting a tournament should result in improvement of the host team’s standing. Host’s low ranking decreases the interest in the tournament and may result in a major loss of advertisement revenue.
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........86fe092a151eca85567c96ee2ec91e9a