Video kills the sentiment-Exploring fans' reception of the video assistant referee in the English premier league using Twitter data.

ABSTRACT: Evaluative research of technological officiating aids in sports predominantly focuses on the respective technology and the impact on decision accuracy, whereas the impact on stakeholders is neglected. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the immediate impact of the recently introduced Video Assistant Referee, often referred to as VAR, on the sentiment of fans of the English Premier League. We analyzed the content of 643,251 tweets from 129 games, including 94 VAR incidents, using a new variation of a gradient boosting approach to train two tree-based classifiers for text corpora: one classifier to identify tweets related to the VAR and another one to rate a tweet's sentiment. The results of 10-fold cross-validations showed that our approach, for which we only took a small sh

SUBMITTER: Kolbinger O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7725346 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature