Assessing the performance of German Bundesliga football players: a non-parametric metafrontier approach

作者：Tiedemann Torben^*; Francksen Tammo; Latacz Lohmann Uwe

来源：Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2011, 19(4): 571-587.

DOI：10.1007/s10100-010-0146-7

• Performance evaluation
• Football
• Metafrontier analysis
• Data envelopment analysis

This article presents a novel model for evaluating the performance of field players in football. Based upon Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), we employ a non-concave metafrontier approach that permits estimation of players' efficiency scores under consideration of their playing positions. The model is applied to a data set of Germany's premier league football players covering the playing seasons 2002/03 to 2008/09. The results reveal a clear positive relationship between a team's average player efficiency score and its rank in the league table at the end of the season. In addition, the metafrontier approach is used to identify a footballer's optimal playing position in the team and to quantify the performance increase from moving to that position.

• 出版日期2011-12