Cached pass-event dataset for "Does Higher Risk Necessarily Entail Higher Reward? A Quantitative Study of the Risk–Reward Relationship in Football Passing"

This record provides the cached event-level pass dataset used in the study “Does Higher Risk Necessarily Entail Higher Reward? A Quantitative Study of the Risk–Reward Relationship in Football Passing.” The dataset was derived from publicly available StatsBomb Open Data. The original event data are available from the StatsBomb Open Data repository: https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data, subject to the provider’s terms of use. The corresponding scripts for data acquisition, pass-event filtering, variable construction, xPass estimation, out-of-fold prediction, risk–reward metric calculation, and sensitivity analyses are available at: https://github.com/aaoonobot/1git. This Zenodo record is provided to support reproducibility by making available the cached event-level pass dataset used in the analysis. Users should comply with the StatsBomb Open Data terms of use and cite StatsBomb as the original data source when using or redistributing research, analysis, or insights based on these data.