The relative importance of ability, luck and motivation in team sports: a Bayesian model of performance in the English Rugby Premiership.

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-12-08 DOI:10.1007/s10260-022-00677-8

Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé

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Abstract

Results in contact sports like Rugby are mainly interpreted in terms of the ability and/or luck of teams. But this neglects the important role of the motivation of players, reflected in the effort exerted in the game. Here we present a Bayesian hierarchical model to infer the main features that explain score differences in rugby matches of the English Premiership Rugby 2020/2021 season. The main result is that, indeed, effort (seen as a ratio between the number of tries and the scoring kick attempts) is highly relevant to explain outcomes in those matches.

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团队运动中能力、运气和动机的相对重要性：英式橄榄球超级联赛成绩的贝叶斯模型。

橄榄球等接触性运动的比赛结果主要取决于球队的能力和/或运气。但这忽视了球员积极性的重要作用，球员的积极性反映在比赛中所付出的努力上。在此，我们提出了一个贝叶斯层次模型，以推断出解释 2020/2021 赛季英超橄榄球比赛得分差异的主要特征。主要结果是，努力程度（视为得分次数与踢球次数之间的比率）与解释这些比赛的结果高度相关。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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