soccer {GMMBoost}

German Bundesliga data for the seasons 2008-2010

Description

The soccer data contains different covariables for the teams that played in the first Germna soccer division, the Bundesliga, in the seasons 2007/2008 until 2009/2010.

Usage

data(soccer)

Format

A data frame with 54 observations on the following 16 variables.

pos

the final league rank of a soccer team at the end of the season

team

soccer teams

points

number of the points a team has earned during the season

transfer.spendings

the amount (in Euro) that a team has spent for new players at the start of the season

transfer.receits

the amount (in Euro) that a team has earned for the selling of players at the start of the season

yellow.card

number of the yellow cards a team has received during the season

yellow.red.card

number of the yellow-red cards a team has received during the season

red.card

number of the red cards a team has received during the season

unfair.score

unfairness score which is derived by the number of yellow cards (1 unfairness point), yellow-red cards (2 unfairness points) and red cards (3 unfairness points) a team has received during the season

ave.unfair.score

average unfairness score per match

ball.possession

average percentage of ball possession per match

tackles

average percentage of head-to-head duels won per match

capacity

capacity of the team's soccer stadium

total.attend

total attendance of a soccer team for the whole season

ave.attend

average attendance of a soccer team per match

sold.out

number of stadium sold outs during a season

References

Groll, A. and G. Tutz (2011a). Regularization for generalized additive mixed models by likelihood-based boosting. Technical Report 110, Ludwig-Maximilians-University.

Groll, A. and G. Tutz (2012). Regularization for Generalized Additive Mixed Models by Likelihood-Based Boosting. Methods of Information in Medicine. To appear.

Groll, A. and G. Tutz (2011c). Variable selection for generalized linear mixed models by L1-penalized estimation. Technical Report 108, Ludwig-Maximilians-University.

We are grateful to Jasmin Abedieh for providing the German Bundesliga data, which were part of her bachelor thesis.

See Also

bGLMM,bGAMM.