Measuring the effectiveness of offensive match-play in professional soccer

European Journal of Sport Science

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 269-277

  Tenga, Albin ^a   Ronglan, Lars T ^a   Bahr, Roald ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Goals scored; Logistic regression; Match performance analysis in soccer; ROC curves; Score box possessions; Scoring opportunities

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953636424     PISSN: 17461391     EISSN: 15367290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17461390903515170     Document Type: Article

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