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IG McHale

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Name:

IG McHale

Email:

I.McHale@salford.ac.uk

Department:

Business School

Organisation:

The University of Salford

Address:

Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT.

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Biography

Job title:

Professor of Sports Analytics

Biography:

Dr. Ian McHale is Professor of Sports Analytics in Salford Business School. He was founding Chair of the Statistics in Sports Section of the Royal Statistical Society and currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, a journal of the American Statistical Association. Ian has published research in top-rated peer reviewed journals on forecasting in sport, ranking in sport and gambling related issues. He has worked on several high-profile consultancy projects, including the creation of the EA Sports Player Performance Index, the Official Player Rating System of the Barclays Premier League.

Qualifications:

B.Sc.(Liverpool), Ph.D.(Manchester), Investment Management Certificate.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1.	A Bradley-Terry type model for forecasting tennis match results	1054	3
2.	Modelling the dependence of goals scored by opposing teams in international soccer matches	931	1
3.	On the development of a soccer player performance rating system for the English premier league	709	2237
4.	Forecasting exact scores in National Football League games	699	5
5.	Maintaining market position: Team performance, revenue and wage expenditure in the English Premier League	576	2320
6.	Anyone for tennis (betting)?	565
7.	To lead or not to lead : analysis of the sprint in track cycling	540	507
8.	A modified Duckworth–Lewis method for adjusting targets in interrupted limited overs cricket	530
9.	A dynamic paired comparisons model : who is the greatest tennis player?	467	6
10.	Modelling the probability distribution of prize winnings in the UK national lottery: consequences of conscious selection	437	4

My Latest

Scarf, PA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5623-906X, Parma, R and McHale, IG 2019, 'On outcome uncertainty and scoring rates in sport : the case of international rugby union' , European Journal of Operational Research, 273 (2) , pp. 721-730.
Baker, RD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3555-3425 and McHale, IG 2017, 'An empirical Bayes model for time-varying paired comparisons ratings : who is the greatest women’s tennis player?' , European Journal of Operational Research, 258 (1) , pp. 328-333.
Boshnakov, G, Kharrat, T and McHale, IG 2017, 'A bivariate Weibull count model for forecasting association football scores' , International Journal of Forecasting, 33 (2) , pp. 458-466.
Forrest, DK, McHale, IG, Sanz, I and de Tena, J 2017, 'An analysis of country medal shares in individual sports at the Olympics' , European Sports Management Quarterly, 17 (2) , pp. 117-131.
Szczepański, Ł and McHale, IG 2016, 'Beyond completion rate : evaluating the passing ability of footballers' , Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 179 (2) , pp. 513-533.
Asif, M and McHale, IG 2016, 'In-play forecasting of win probability in one-day international cricket : a dynamic logistic regression model' , International Journal of Forecasting, 32 (1) , pp. 34-43.
Baker, RD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3555-3425 and McHale, IG 2015, 'An empirical Bayes' procedure for ranking players in Ryder Cup golf' , Journal of Applied Statistics, 43 (3) , pp. 387-395.
Baker, RD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3555-3425 and McHale, IG 2015, 'Deterministic evolution of strength in multiple comparisons models : Who is the greatest golfer?' , Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 42 (1) , pp. 180-196.
Baker, RD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3555-3425 and McHale, IG 2015, 'Time varying ratings in association football : the all-time greatest team is...' , Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 178 (2) , pp. 481-492.
Baker, RD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3555-3425 and McHale, IG 2014, 'A dynamic paired comparisons model : who is the greatest tennis player?' , European Journal of Operational Research, 236 (2) , pp. 677-684.