FIFA Is Right: The Penalty Shootout Should Adopt the Tennis Tiebreak Format - Open Access Library Journal

Open Access Library Journal

Volume 5, Issue 3 (March 2018)

ISSN Print: 2333-9705 ISSN Online: 2333-9721

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FIFA Is Right: The Penalty Shootout Should Adopt the Tennis Tiebreak Format ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104427 640 Downloads 3,251 Views Citations

Author(s)

Sergio Da Silva¹, Diego Mioranza², Raul Matsushita³

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Economics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis S.C., Brazil.
²Catarinense Federal Institute, Blumenau S.C., Brazil.
³Department of Statistics, University of Brasilia, Brasilia D.F., Brazil.

ABSTRACT

In the current penalty shootout system of soccer, the team going second has to play catch-up. This possibly carries a bias in favor of the team going first. We consider this hypothesis by taking data from both soccer penalty shootouts and tennis tie breaks. We find the bias does exist in soccer, but not in tennis. This suggests the penalty shootout should adopt the tennis tiebreak format to remove the bias, as recently advocated by FIFA.

KEYWORDS

Soccer, Tennis, Penalty Shootout, Tennis Tiebreak, FIFA

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Silva, S. , Mioranza, D. and Matsushita, R. (2018) FIFA Is Right: The Penalty Shootout Should Adopt the Tennis Tiebreak Format. Open Access Library Journal, 5, 1-27. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1104427.

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