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DATA ARCHIVE - The influence of Spectator Attendance in professional European Football leagues on the Home field advantage

This repo features the exact replication of Wunderlich et al. (2021) a proposed extension of the replicated study, an exploratory approach to also work with the data, a way to retrieve and organize the data and a visualisation in form of a shiny app.


For a visualization of this effect visit the following website: https://christophvoeltzke.shinyapps.io/shiny_app/


For reproducing the workflow and the results of the report please run all the corresponding scripts. Needed versions of software and packages are provided in Requirements.txt. The original data is available on the open-source website: http://www.football-data.co.uk/


Files/Folders Description
1. Data_processing R-Markdown-script to obtain the needed data
2. Replication results R-Markdown-script to get the same results obtained and published by Wunderlich et al. (2021)
3. Extended replication R-Markdown-script to extend the results of the replication study
4. Exploratory_analysis R-Markdown-script to extend the results of the replication study with exploratory analyses on the same data set
/Data Folder containing several folders with different data files. Among these Folders: Plotting; New Seasons; Exploratory; Generated sets
/Functions Folder containing helper functions for plotting and filtering
/Manuscript Folder containing latex code, figures and references as well as the most recent manuscrpit as a pdf
/Shiny App Folder containing necessary scripts for running and deploying the Shiny App

For any help with the files in this archive, please contact Christoph Völtzke ([email protected]).


License

The repository is licensed under the apache-2.0 license.