Quantifying the Decoupling Effect of Cup Congestion on 2012/2013 Bundesliga Form
In high-performance sports analytics, a club’s domestic league trajectory cannot be evaluated in isolation when mid-week knockout competitions are introduced into the calendar. The 2012/2013 German Bundesliga season offers an exceptional historical dataset demonstrating how both the DFB-Pokal and European tournaments fundamentally distorted standard league performance baselines. When multi-tournament obligations strain shallow squads, the physical … Read more