Halicioglu (2005) investigated the possibility to predict the most likely winners of the Euro 2000 football tournament on the basic of the seasonal coefficient of variation (CVs) of the end-of-season points, which were computed from the top division final standings of participating countries of Euro 2000.
The CV values calculated from over ten seasons for the respective countries were used as a sole measurement value to rank the countries and to determine the most likely winners of Euro 2000.
According to the three scenarios (long-term, mid-term, and short-term) based on the respective CV values of fifteen countries, France appeared to be the most likely country to win Euro 2000 and was closely followed by Spain. The CVs are calculated as 3 categories of short term, middle term and long term. Comparing with the real FIFA results of 2000, Czech R. got the first place instead of France. The other countries of France, Spain and Germany are higher ranked in CVs. There are also getting good results in real FIFA 2000. The 5th place of Norway got low rank in CVs.
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