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Optimising football transfer strategy under budget constraints: A weighted multi-criteria approach

Rishideep Roy, Soudeep Deb, Tathagata Basu

A club's optimal football transfers can be determined by feeding performance and price predictions into a weighted multi-criteria optimization that respects budget limits.

arxiv:2605.13926 v1 · 2026-05-13 · stat.AP

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C1strongest claim

The predicted ratings and estimated transfer prices are integrated into a weighted multi-criteria constrained optimisation framework that determines a club's transfer activities at the end of the season.

C2weakest assumption

That linear mixed-effects models built on player characteristics, recent performance, team context, and league effects will produce reliable enough predictions of future performance and market prices to drive useful optimization decisions.

C3one line summary

A framework combining linear mixed-effects models for player ratings and prices with multi-criteria optimization and auction simulation for football transfers, illustrated on 2018-19 Premier League data.

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[1] Saikia, Hemanta and Bhattacharjee, Dibyojyoti and Mukherjee, Diganta and Saikia, Hemanta and Bhattacharjee, Dibyojyoti and Mukherjee, Diganta , journal=. 2019 , publisher= 2019

[2] IEEE signal processing magazine , volume= 2004

[3] Proceedings of the 2024 9th International Conference on Machine Learning Technologies , pages= 2024

[4] Humanities and Social Sciences , volume=

[5] Depken, Craig A and Globan, Tomislav , journal=. 2021 , publisher= 2021

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arxiv: 2605.13926 · arxiv_version: 2605.13926v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.13926 · pith_short_12: BCY3PZNTHWQM · pith_short_16: BCY3PZNTHWQMJCWB · pith_short_8: BCY3PZNT

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