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- Title
Making life difficult for others - an economic and financial insight into the networks of Spanish Soccer teams' yellow and red cards.
- Authors
Reis Mourão, Paulo; Salgado Barandela, Jesyca
- Abstract
A soccer match without the exhibition of yellow or red cards is very uncommon in professional competition. Sanctions for bad behavior by players have ethical implications for the essential rules of healthy competition. On the other hand, the cards displayed are related to strategic factors of the game and they can have significant costs for the teams. The main objective of this work focuses on analyzing the interactions, patterns and determinants of the relationships that occur between the teams based on the disciplinary sanctions given and received. We study the seasons of the Spanish Professional Soccer League from 2010/2011 to 2018/2019, utilizing complex network analysis. We consider the value of the teams' transfers and the referee's profile as determining factors. Our major evidence suggests there has been a downtrend in the number of cards exhibited in the matches throughout the seasons, although there have been stable fee revenues for the organizer (RFEF). We also identify different profiles of referees able to increase the number of cards exhibited to some particular teams. We also observe that teams usually competing for the same rank tend to participate in matches with a higher number of exhibited cards, but financial similarities between the competing teams are not as significant for explaining the aggressiveness/exposure in the matches.
- Subjects
SOCCER teams; SOCCER tournaments; STRATEGY games; SOCCER; TEAMS
- Publication
Retos: Nuevas Perspectivas de Educación Física, Deporte y Recreación, 2024, Vol 53, p530
- ISSN
1579-1726
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.47197/retos.v53.101654