An analytics approach to the FIFA ranking procedure and the World Cup final draw

DOI10.1007/s10479-019-03261-8zbMath1493.62633OpenAlexW2944728850WikidataQ127889003 ScholiaQ127889003MaRDI QIDQ2178341

Sebastián Cea, Gonzalo Zamorano, Joaquín Siebert, Mario Guajardo, Denis Sauré, Guillermo Durán

Publication date: 11 May 2020

Published in: Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-019-03261-8

zbMATH Keywords

rankingfootballOR in sportsanalyticsFIFA World Cup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mixed integer programming (90C11) Applications of statistics (62P99)

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• Gurobi
• Julia

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