soccer: German Bundesliga data for the seasons 2008-2010

In glmmLasso: Variable Selection for Generalized Linear Mixed Models by L1-Penalized Estimation

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 (2012). Regularization for generalized additive mixed models by likelihood-based boosting. Methods of Information in Medicine. 51(2), 168-177.

Groll, A. and G. Tutz (2014). Variable selection for generalized linear mixed models by L1-penalized estimation. Statistics and Computing 24(2), 137–154.

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

See Also

glmmLasso, bGLMM, bGAMM.

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