An analytics approach to the FIFA ranking procedure and the World Cup final draw

DOI10.1007/S10479-019-03261-8MaRDI QIDQ2178341zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sebastián Cea, Guillermo Durán, Mario Guajardo, Denis Sauré, Joaquín Siebert, Gonzalo Zamorano

Publication date 11 May 2020

Published in Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-019-03261-8

zbMATH Keywords

OR in sportsrankinganalyticsfootballFIFA World Cup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics (62P99) Mixed integer programming (90C11)

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