Maximizing ball movement unpredictability in association football: A Rényi entropy-based approach to optimizing event distribution randomness

• Ishara Bandara ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: isharabnd@gmail.com

  Affiliations School of IT, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Research Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7346-248X

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• Sergiy Shelyag,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of IT, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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• Sutharshan Rajasegarar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of IT, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Dan Dwyer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Sport Research, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8177-7262

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• Eun-jin Kim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

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• Maia Angelova

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Aston Digital Futures Institute, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Institute for Biophysics and Bioengineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0931-0916

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