Measuring efficiency in the National Basketball Association

La eficacia del lanzamiento a canasta en la NBA: Análisis multifactorial. (Shot efficacy in the NBA: A multifactorial analysis)

“…Ibáñez, Lozano & Martínez (2001b) agrupan las investigaciones sobre el juego en baloncesto en dos grandes grupos: investigaciones sobre el producto del juego e investigaciones sobre el proceso del juego. Los trabajos que analizan el producto del juego utilizan como variables para su estudio las estadísticas de la competición, con diversos objetivos, tales como: encontrar los indicadores que permiten identificar la eficacia de los equipos (Hoofler & Payne, 1997;Karapidis, Fotinakis, Taxildaris & Fatouros, 2001), conocer la influencia del efecto de jugar en casa (De Rose, 2004), discriminar los estadísticos de juego que inciden en la victoria o derrota (Gómez, Lorenzo, Sampaio & Ibáñez, 2006;Ibáñez, Sampaio, Sáenz-López, Giménez & Janeira, 2003;Sampaio, Ibáñez & Feu, 2004), descubrir los jugadores más determinantes en el resultado final del partido (Sampaio, Ibáñez, Gómez, Lorenzo & Ortega, 2008), etc. Las estadísticas de juego que permanecen constantes y que mayor poder discriminatorio tienen en la victoria son el número de lanzamientos de 2 puntos convertidos y el número de rebotes defensivos capturados.…”

Can We Be Satisfied With Our Football Team? Evidence From Spanish Professional Football

“…Studies which assess performance in these competitions normally only take into account the team's results in the first stage of the normal competition which decides which teams go on to the play-offs. For example, this is the case with the research made by Hofler and Payne (1997) for the National Basketball Association. Regarding similar research in the European context, the only study is that conducted by Haas (2003b), which incorporates a variable that gives information on whether or not the team has participated in the Champions League or the UEFA Cup.…”

“…Other papers are devoted to analysing the sporting performance of teams in the main national competition in which they participate (Carmichael et al 2000;Barros et al 2008a). Furthermore, some papers focus on the performance of a team in relation to their potential level taking into account the relative attacking or defensive attitude of the players (Zak et al 1979;Hofler and Payne, 1997;Hadley et al 2000;García-Cebrián, 2004, 2006;Boscá et al 2006). Finally, Haas (2003a,b), Haas et al (2004), Leach (2006a, 2007) and Barros and García del Barrio (2008b) consider financial and sporting objectives in order to measure performance.…”

Analysing the technical efficiency of the Spanish Football League First Division with a random frontier model

“…Extending the analysis of efficiency in sports, Ruggiero, Hadley and Gustafson (1996) analysed the efficiency of baseball teams with panel data. Hoeffler and Payne (1997) Among the papers which have taken the non-parametric approach, we mention D' Itri (1996, 1997), who applied the DEA analysis to measure the managerial efficiency of college basketball teams to assess the conflicting theses concerning the impact of managerial succession on organisational performance, and Porter and Scully (1982), who analysed the managerial efficiency of baseball managers with a nonparametric approach. Barros (2003) analysed the incentive regulation on sports organisational training activities, disentangling technical and allocative efficiency with DEA.…”

“…Two traditions are observed, the DEA -data envelopment analysis, which has been applied by Haas, 2003A, 2004B, Barros and Santos 2005; Espitia-Escuer and García-Cebrian, 2004;D'Itry, 1996,1997;and Porter and Scully (1982) and the stochastic frontier models, which have been applied by Barros andLeach, 2006B, 2006C;Kahane, 2005;Gerrard (2005); Hoeffler and Payne, 1997;Dawson, Dobson and Gerrard, 2000;Carmichael, Thomas and Ward, 2001;Scully, 1994;and Zak, Huang and Siegfried (1979). The aim of this research is to combine sports and financial variables in the evaluation of the clubs' efficiency.…”