Quantifying football player value: a novel combined rating and ML ensemble approach for predicting top players

Today's article comes from the Journal of Big Data. The authors are Klaiber et al., from the Aalen University of Applied Sciences, in Germany. In this paper, they're trying to build a performance-prediction engine for professional soccer players. One that can forecast which recruits (among many) will end up being elite.

DOI: 10.1186/s40537-026-01369-w

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