Snooker
Sporting contests through the lens of complex systems: A data-driven approach
Multiple facets of society have been studied in recent times due to the emergence of large-scale datasets arising from digital traces being created each day, these include content popularity on social media, disease spreading, and financial …
O’Sullivan, Hendry, Davies,...? A complex networks approach to ranking professional Snooker players
The question is often posed regarding who is the greatest competitor within a given sport resulting in endless debates without definitive answer and is generally discussed via qualitative, rather than quantitative, arguments. In this talk we consider …