Forecasting in the NBA and other team sports: Network effects in action

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Vaz De Melo, Pedro O S ^a   Almeida, Virgilio A F ^a   Loureiro, Antonio A F ^a   Faloutsos, Christos ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Social networks; Sports analytics

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND INFORMATION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; HIGH PROBABILITY; IMPLICIT FEEDBACK; NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATIONS; NETWORK EFFECTS; NETWORK PROPERTIES; NETWORK-BASED; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION MODEL; SINGLE PARAMETER; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPORTS EVENTS;

FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RECREATIONAL FACILITIES;

SPORTS;

EID: 84869445659     PISSN: 15564681     EISSN: 1556472X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2362383.2362387     Document Type: Article

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