Short Course On
Football Analytics
11-13 May 2026
Course Lecturers
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Ioannis Ntzoufras (AUEB)
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Dimitris Karlis (AUEB)
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Leonardo Egidi (University of Trieste)
DAY 1 (11 May 2026): 18.00 - 21.00
Ioannis Ntzoufras
Problems in Football Analytics
Double Poisson Models for Football
DAY 2 (12 May 2026): 18.00 - 21.00
Dimitris Karlis
Advanced Models for Football
DAY 3 (13 May 2026): 18.00 - 21.00
Leonardo Egidi
Predictive Models using footBayes package in R
All participants should have R installed in their computers.
Some implementations will be possibly in OpenBUGS, Jags or STAN and footbayes package in R ( https://github.com/LeoEgidi/footBayes )
"Predictive Modelling for Football Analytics"
This book is an ultimate guide to the world of Football Analytics:
✅ Master classical & Bayesian models used in Predictive Analytics.
✅ Explore the main computational tools shaping Football Data Analysis.
✅ Follow hands-on examples with the footBayes R package,
accompanying every chapter.
🌐 Available on Amazon, Google Books, and other international book services.
Co-authored by Leonardo Egidi (Università degli Studi di Trieste), Dimitris Karlis (Department of Statistics, AUEB) and Ioannis Ntzoufras (Department of Statistics, AUEB).
Published by CRC Press.
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