Abstract

GARZA P, Néstor  and  YUNIS, Iván. Performance of the colombian professional soccer teams: An analysis ¡N GAME. rev. econ. Caribe [online]. 2011, n.7, pp.213-230. ISSN 2011-2106.

This article assesses the effects of home-field advantage and relative quality over the in-game decisions and performance of the teams playing in the Colombian First Division of association football. The Correia-Machado model is modified in order to explicitly include home-field advantage joint with relative quality of the teams as deter-minants of their performance. With a database for 2009 tournaments information, we find that different specifications for the quality of teams is not a determinant of offensive play decisions taken, unlike the field where the match is held which actually is.

Keywords : Soccer Leagues; Sports Strategy; Home-field Advantage; In-game; Performance.

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