Data Envelopment Analysis and Cross-Efficiency Evaluation in the Management of Sports Teams: The Assessment of Game Performance of Players in the Spanish Handball League

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Óscar Gutiérrez Universidad Miguel Hernández

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José L. Ruiz Universidad Miguel Hernández

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.27.3.217
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Volume 27: Issue 3
Page Range:
217–229
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Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and cross-efficiency evaluation are shown as support tools for sports team management in the context of a study of assessment of the individual game performance of handball players of the Spanish premier league. A sample of 66 players that play as backs in their teams is evaluated from the perspective of their offensive game. DEA yields a measure of the overall performance of the game of the players, and allows to identifying relative strengths and weaknesses by means of a benchmarking analysis. The cross-efficiency evaluation has provided a peer-appraisal of the players with the different patterns of game that the 10 players rated as efficient have used in the DEA assessments, and has made it possible to derive a full ranking of players.

Gutiérrez is with Centro de Investigación del Deporte, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, Spain. Ruiz is with Centro de Investigación Operativa, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, Spain.

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