The forecast plays an important role in the planning, the decision-making and control in any domain of activity … (univariate models), that use only the information of its past values to forecast the future, can often predict future with more … accuracy than causal or multivariate models. In this paper, we model and forecast the offensive effectiveness of the soccer …

lagged relationship provides a precise forecast at the two-year horizon with root mean square forecasting error (RMSFE) as … forecast methodology effectively outperforms any other forecasting technique reported in economic and financial literature …