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Ranking football players
Author(s) -
McHale Ian,
Scarf Phil
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2005.00091.x
Subject(s) - football , league , ranking (information retrieval) , general partnership , football players , index (typography) , advertising , operations research , political science , computer science , business , engineering , law , artificial intelligence , world wide web , physics , astronomy
The Actim index is the official player rating system of the Barclays Premiership, which was introduced for the 2004–2005 football season. It was devised by Ian McHale and Phil Scarf for the Press Association in partnership with the Premier League and Football Data Co. Here they describe the development of the index and take a look at player performance this season.