Two Stage Approach for the Performances of Teams in Football Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Year 2017, Volume: 30 Issue: 3, 195 - 208, 20.09.2017

İhsan Alp , Volkan Soner Özsoy

Abstract

Football is a very
popular subdivision of sports for our country, as all around the world and the
money spent for football is on a large scale. In spite of this, scientific
studies interested in the statistical, economical dimensions and performance
evaluation for the football are scarce in our country even in the world.  One of the reasons of this is not to record
football statistics in our country. FIFA statistics can be hold as a sample in
this field. FIFA, holds about fifty numbers of different football statistics at
player basis or team level during the World Cup matches. It is obvious that the
performance of players one by one and as an entire and the team’s performance
is so important.

The goal of this
study is to pioneer for how the performance analysis is applied and how its
results can be benefited in football if the statistics are recorded. Displaying
the numerical size of defectiveness mathematically also helps trainers and
players. On the other hand, the output oriented CCR model of data envelopment
analysis and super efficiency model AP were used.

Keywords

Football, Team Performance, Performance Analysis, Data Envelopment Analysis

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