A comparative study of the competitive balance of the Spanish and English top football leagues on the basis of sport performance during the four last seasons before the Covid-19 pandemic

Q2 Engineering

International Review of Applied Sciences and Engineering Pub Date : 2023-02-16 DOI:10.1556/1848.2022.00590

Kristóf Nagy, Bence András Bács, Éva Bácsné Bába

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Abstract

The topic of this study has been the examination and comparison of the competitive balance of the Spanish and the English first leagues of soccer, called La Liga Santander and Barclays Premier League. The basis for the research project has been provided by a database of sixteen hundred elements, containing the data of the two leagues starting from the 2014/2015 season up to the 2017/2018 season. When choosing the time period for the study, we intended to avoid having to deal with the impact of Covid-19, which is why we picked exactly these competition seasons. We have primarily used statistical indicators. In the case of sports-related data, our inquiries have included the following: comparing and averaging the winning percentages per season, furthermore, the winning percentages of championship seasons, the distribution of goals scored and conceded and, finally, the calculation of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. Although there is one aspect of investigation according to which the competition balance of La Liga is closer to the optimal, the dispersion of winning percentages and the indicator of the goals conceded as well as the HHI index show that the Premier League is the more balanced competition of the two.

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基于新冠肺炎大流行前最后四个赛季运动表现的西班牙和英国顶级足球联赛竞争平衡对比研究

本研究的主题是对西班牙和英国足球甲级联赛(西甲、桑坦德和巴克莱超级联赛)的竞争平衡进行考察和比较。该研究项目的基础是一个包含1600个元素的数据库，其中包含两个联赛从2014/2015赛季到2017/2018赛季的数据。在选择研究的时间段时，我们打算避免不得不处理Covid-19的影响，这就是我们选择这些比赛季节的原因。我们主要使用统计指标。就体育相关数据而言，我们的调查包括:比较和平均每个赛季的胜率，然后是冠军赛季的胜率，进球数和失球数的分布，最后是赫芬达尔-赫希曼指数的计算。虽然有一个方面的调查显示西甲的竞争平衡更接近最优，但从胜率和失球指标的离散度以及HHI指数来看，英超是两者中更平衡的一个。

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International Review of Applied Sciences and Engineering Materials Science-Materials Science (miscellaneous)

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46 weeks

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