Search Results - English Football League
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When Adam met Rio: conversations on racism, anti-racism and multiculturalism in the Australian Football League and English Premier League
Published 2015“…This article employs a 2013 televised dialogue on racism between two male, minority ethnic, global football stars – Adam Goodes of the Australian Rules code and Rio Ferdinand, an English Premier League player – for a timely, comparative and cross-cultural analysis of issues around race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, and identity, and dominant approaches to anti-racism and multiculturalism within these codes. …”
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To Analyse the Performance of Football Players in the English Premier League: Implications for Professional Sports Management
Published 2008“…Methodology/Approach - Regression analysis is applied to several factors relating to the performance of a football player. The datasets used in analysis consists of 37 different players belonging to various clubs in the English Premier League. …”
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To Sack or Not To Sack: The Impact of Managerial Change on Team Performance in English Premier League Football
Published 2018“…The following study addresses this area of interest by examining the impacts that managerial change has on English Premier League performance. The analysis for this investigation uses game statistics (from seasons 2008/09 to 2017/18), in a paired-samples t-test, to measure the difference in points per match and league position before and after managerial change. …”
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A Whole Different Ballgame: Comparing the CSR Activities of the English Premier League and the National Football League in Response to the 2020 BLM Protests
Published 2020“…This dissertation’s research question asked, “How did the English Premier League (EPL) and the National Football League (NFL) react in terms of CSR activities to the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests?” …”
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Measuring Efficiency of English Premier League Football Teams with a Data Envelopment Analysis Approach
Published 2008“…This study examines how close to their potential English Premier League Clubs play. Employing a deterministic Data Envelopment Analysis Approach, which has proved particularly useful when production involves multiple inputs and outputs, the efficiency of the 13 clubs that remained in the English Premier League throughout the period from 2001/2 to 2006/7, is measured. …”
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To what extent does the English Premier League address CSR?
Published 2009“…This expectation has transferred into other sporting events such as the National Football League in America (Babiak K and Wolfe R, 2006) and more recently in football across Europe especially the English Premier League as a result of commercialization which has seen the league declared the richest in the world (Dobson, S and Goddard J, 2001). …”
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The Quest for Time-An examination of the changing dynamics of managerial attributes in the English Premier League
Published 2009“…In conjunction with a changing dynamic environment, there has been a changing trend of human capital managerial attributes that allow for management stability in the English Premier League. This paper has examined the Premier league manager using different statistical techniques to understand the determinants of managerial stability and survivability in a world that is dominated by high financial resources (Szymanski & Smith, 1997) and expectations. …”
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The Quest for Time - An examination of the changing dynamics of managerial attributes in the English Premier League
Published 2009“…In conjunction with a changing dynamic environment, there has been a changing trend of human capital managerial attributes that allow for management stability in the English Premier League. This paper has examined the Premier league manager using different statistical techniques to understand the determinants of managerial attributes and their survivability in a world that is dominated by high financial resources (Szymanski & Smith, 1997) and expectations. …”
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Match outcomes prediction of six top English Premier League clubs via machine learning technique
Published 2018“…The English Premier League (EPL) is one of the most widely covered league in the world. …”
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Efficiency of Sports Leagues - The Economic Implications of Having Two Leagues in the Indian Cricket Market
Published 2008“…In the USA, American Football has one major league called the National Football League (NFL); while in the UK, soccer has one major league called the English Premier League (EPL). …”
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Foreign Exchange Exposure of Football Clubs
Published 2007“…The Premier League is a billion pound industry and English football clubs can deal with significant amounts of foreign cash flow. …”
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Is there evidence of inefficiency in the Football Betting Market?
Published 2016“…This dissertation investigates the existence of both weak form and semi-strong form efficiency in the football betting market over the last 8 seasons (2008/2009 to 2015/2016), for the English Premier League, the German Bundesliga and the Spanish La Liga. …”
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Bayesian approach to classification of football match outcome
Published 2018“…This paper propose the Bayesian approaches within machine learning approaches such as Naive Bayes (NB), Tree Augmented Naive Bayes (TAN) and General Bayesian Network (K2) to predict the football match outcome. The required of football data is the English Premier League match results for three seasons; 2016 – 2017, 2015 – 2016 and 2014 – 2015 downloaded from http://www.football-data.co.uk. …”
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Football match prediction through the use of statistical analysis and machine learning
Published 2017“…Following this matches from a number of previous seasons and different English leagues were modified to include different form features (varying number of games considered for the form factor) and on separate datasets form features and the historic trend feature. …”
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An enhanced Bayesian Network prediction model for football matches based on player performance
Published 2017“…The dataset used was data for the Arsenal Football Club in the English Premier League (EPL) for seasons 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. …”
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"I must be mad to watch this lot" :a qualitative study examining the effect that supporting a small, local football club has on the mental health of supporters
Published 2008“…This study explored whether the same impact was actually found in the supporters of English lower league association football. Part of this area of the study addressed the importance that ritual behaviour played in the development of a sense of identity and belonging in the group setting. …”
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Investigating Debates Around Racism in Sport to Facilitate Perspective Transformation in the Secondary English Classroom
Published 2017“…This article suggests that racism in the Australian Football League online discourse community can be addressed in the English classroom, as social media texts in this area provide rich illustration of the prevailing antisocial attitudes thriving both in this community and the broader Australian community. …”
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