Vecer, Jan; Ichiba, Tomoyuki; Laudanovic, Mladen - In: Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 3 (2007) 3, pp. 6-6
In this paper we introduce a quantitative measure of the excitement of sports games. This measure can be thought of as … the variability of the expectancy of winning as a game progresses. We illustrate the concept of excitement at soccer games … Poisson model, higher scoring rates lead to increased expected excitement. Given a particular strength of a team, the most …