The effect of seeding changes in the UEFA Champions League on competitive balance within the 2015/16 group stage

The aim of this study was to investigate the impact UEFA’s seeding changes would have on competitive balance within the 2015/16 Champions League group stage. Match outcome and UEFA coefficient ranking data were collected from 384 group stage games. Through Poisson regression, home and away attack a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Anthony
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2015
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30054/