Estimating coaching efficiency in professional team sports:Evidence from English association football

Dawson, Peter, Dobson, Stephen and Gerrard, Bill (2000) Estimating coaching efficiency in professional team sports:Evidence from English association football. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 47 (4). pp. 399-421. ISSN 0036-9292

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Abstract

This study provides a review of the literature on sporting production functions with an emphasis on different input-output specifications and alternative estimation procedures. Empirical evidence is reported for English association football on the robustness of estimates of coaching efficiency to changes in estimation methods and the definition of team performance and playing talent inputs. A measure of player quality based on predicted start-of-season transfer values is developed. It is found that the estimation of coaching efficiency is sensitive to the choice of time-invariant efficiency models versus time-varying and inefficiency effects models. It is also found that the results are little affected by different measures of team performance but are highly sensitive to the use of an ex post financial expenditure input measure. Ex ante input measures based on start-of-season player characteristics or predicted transfer values are recommended as more appropriate on both theoretical and empirical grounds.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	frontier production function,major-league baseball,panel-data,technical inefficiency,dairy farms,performance
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Applied Econometrics And Finance Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural Economics
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	03 May 2019 10:30
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 04:44
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70815
DOI:	10.1111/1467-9485.00170

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