Abstract
We propose a simple stochastic model describing the position-dependent ball-passing network in football (soccer) games. In this network, a player in a certain area in a divided field is a node, and a pass between two nodes corresponds to an edge. Our stochastic process model is characterized by the consecutive choice of a node depending on its intrinsic fitness. We derive an explicit expression for the degree distribution and find that the derived distribution reproduces that for actual data reasonably well.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 084003 |
Journal | Journal of the Physical Society of Japan |
Volume | 84 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 Aug 15 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)