Optimal football strategies: AC Milan versus FC Barcelona

Christos Papahristodoulou ()

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Abstract: In a recent UEFA Champions League game between AC Milan and FC Barcelona, played in Italy (final score 2-3), the collected match statistics, classified into four offensive and two defensive strategies, were in favour of FC Barcelona (by 13 versus 8 points). The aim of this paper is to examine to what extent the optimal game strategies derived from some deterministic, possibilistic, stochastic and fuzzy LP models would improve the payoff of AC Milan at the cost of FC Barcelona.

Keywords: football game; offensive & defensive strategies; Deterministic LP; fuzzy LP; stochastic LP; Nash equilibria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 C61 M54 C72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2012-01
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