footBayes

This is the first package allowing for the estimation, visualization and prediction of the most well-known football models: double Poisson, bivariate Poisson, Skellam, student_t, diagonal-inflated bivariate Poisson, and zero-inflated Skellam. The package allows Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) estimation through the underlying Stan environment and Maximum Likelihood estimation (MLE, for 'static' models only). The model construction relies on the most well-known football references, such as Dixon and Coles (1997) doi:10.1111/1467-9876.00065, Karlis and Ntzoufras (2003) doi:10.1111/1467-9884.00366 and Egidi, Pauli and Torelli (2018) doi:10.1177/1471082X18798414.

Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 469 times in the last 30 days. Enough downloads to make a small wave in the niche community. The curiosity is spreading! The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 16 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 4,023 times in the last 365 days. That's enough downloads to impress a room full of undergrads. A commendable achievement indeed. The day with the most downloads was Feb 20, 2025 with 63 downloads.

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