Statistical analysis of frequencies of opponents׳ eliminations in Royal Rumble wrestling matches, 1988-2018

Hilary I Okagbue; Ezinne C Erondu; Aderemi A Atayero; Pelumi E Oguntunde; Abiodun A Opanuga; Tomike I Olawande; Ogochukwu A Ijezie; Grace A Eze

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.06.023

Statistical analysis of frequencies of opponents׳ eliminations in Royal Rumble wrestling matches, 1988-2018

Data Brief. 2018 Jun 19:19:1458-1465. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.06.023. eCollection 2018 Aug.

Authors

Hilary I Okagbue¹, Ezinne C Erondu¹, Aderemi A Atayero², Pelumi E Oguntunde¹, Abiodun A Opanuga¹, Tomike I Olawande³, Ogochukwu A Ijezie⁴, Grace A Eze^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Mathematics, Covenant University, Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria.
² Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Covenant University, Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria.
³ Department of Sociology, Covenant University, Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria.
⁴ Department of Applied Data Analytics, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom.
⁵ Universita degli Studi dell׳Aquila, L׳Aquila, Italy.
⁶ Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine.

Abstract

The datasets and their analyses presented in this paper revealed some frequencies of opponents׳ eliminations by entrance or order of elimination in Royal Rumble wrestling matches from 1988 to 2018. The frequency of eliminations by the order of entrant is quite different from order of eliminations. Statistical methods, algorithms and machine learning methods can be applied to the raw data to obtain more hidden trend not included in this article.

Keywords: Royal Rumble; Smart campus; Sport analytics; Statistics; WWE; Wrestling.