Da Silva, Sergio; Matsushita, Raul; Silveira, Eliza - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 392 (2013) 21, pp. 5376-5386
Because sports are stylized combat, sports may follow power laws similar to those found for wars, individual clashes, and acts of terrorism. We show this fact for football (soccer) by adjusting power laws that show a close relationship between rank and points won by the clubs participating in...
