Journal
JOURNAL OF SPORTS ANALYTICS
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 187-197Publisher
IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/JSA-200384
Keywords
IHF World Men's Handball Championship 2019; handball; Lasso; Poisson regression; sports tournaments
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In this work, we compare several different modeling approaches for count data applied to the scores of handball matches with regard to their predictive performances based on all matches from the four previous IHF World Men's Handball Championships 2011 - 2017: (underdispersed) Poisson regression models, Gaussian response models and negative binomial models. All models are based on the teams' covariate information. Within this comparison, the Gaussian response model turns out to be the best-performing prediction method on the training data and is, therefore, chosen as the final model. Based on its estimates, the IHF World Men's Handball Championship 2019 is simulated repeatedly and winning probabilities are obtained for all teams. The model clearly favors Denmark before France. Additionally, we provide survival probabilities for all teams and at all tournament stages as well as probabilities for all teams to qualify for the main round.
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