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Do Left-handers and Left-footers Have a Competitive Advantage in Sports?
 Hadžić, Aner ; Krištoufek, Ladislav (advisor) ; Pavlovová, Anna (referee)
Left-sided athletes are often perceived as better performing as they can leverage their minority status within the sports world. While various specific left-sided athletes, such as Lionel Messi and Rafael Nadal, perform at the very top of their disciplines, these might be simply non-representative outliers. The current thesis puts the hy- pothesis of left-sided over-performance to test via a battery of tests and regressions. My thesis thoroughly analyses the prevalence and the performance of left-handed/left-footed athletes across 5 differ- ent sports. As majority of the current studies are focusing only on a few performance metrics in the given sport, my work broad- ens the knowledge on the topic since it compares the performance of left-sided and right-sided athletes in many categories in order to cover a great portion of the in-game action. Furthermore, this thesis also expands the current understanding of the (potential) left-sided advantage in direct encounters between both teams and individu- als, achieving so by implementing predictive Bradley-Terry models that are based on past matches. The overall results are rather sur- prising: in the majority of the performance comparisons between left-handers/left-footers and right-handers/right-footers, no signifi- cant difference between the two...
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