Statistical properties of position-dependent ball-passing networks in football games

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2014.06.037MaRDI QIDQ1783044zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Takuma Narizuka, Ken Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Yamazaki

Publication date 20 September 2018

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0641

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chaincomplex networksdegree distributionfootballtruncated gamma distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91D99)

Abstract: Statistical properties of position-dependent ball-passing networks in real football games are examined. We find that the networks have the small-world property, and their degree distributions are fitted well by a truncated gamma distribution function. In order to reproduce these properties of networks, a model based on a Markov chain is proposed.

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