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I contributed the data-engineering foundation for two peer-reviewed studies of home advantage in elite European handball. I developed the workflows used to gather, structure, clean, and validate 10,772 match records across fourteen men's and women's league datasets.

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My Contribution

• Designed and implemented Python web-scraping workflows for collecting large-scale match results from public sports-data sources.
• Gathered and processed 6,028 men's matches and 4,744 women's matches across four seasons.
• Normalized inconsistent competition, season, team, venue, and result data into analysis-ready structures.
• Used Pandas for transformation, cleaning, aggregation, and quality checks across the datasets.
• Validated sampled records against official league and federation sources to ensure data reliability.
• Prepared team-season variables used to calculate home advantage, home winning percentage, and competitive-level groupings.
• Contributed software, data curation, investigation, resources, validation, and manuscript review within the research team.

Publications

Which League Turns Its Home into a Fortress?

Analysis of Home Advantage in the Top European Men's Handball Leagues

Applied Sciences, 2025 — DOI: 10.3390/app152413246

The study analysed 6,028 matches from the top men's leagues in Spain, France, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, and Portugal between the 2021–2022 and 2024–2025 seasons. It compared home advantage and home winning percentage across leagues and competitive team levels.

My documented contributions included software, data curation, investigation, resources, and validation.

The Women's Side of Home Advantage

Comparative Analysis in the Top Seven Handball Leagues

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2026 — DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2026.1798630

The study analysed 4,744 matches from the top women's leagues in France, Germany, Spain, Norway, Hungary, Romania, and Denmark across the same four-season period. It examined how league context and competitive team level relate to home performance.

My documented contributions included data curation, investigation, resources, validation, and writing review and editing.