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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2014.15.1.165

Selecting the Batters of National Baseball Squad using Data Envelopment Analysis  

Suk, Yeung-Ki (Department of IT Management, Sunmoon University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.15, no.1, 2014 , pp. 165-172 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to identify whether the national baseball squad made up of the best players may get the outstanding results in the international competitions or not. Using Data Envelopment Analysis, the relative efficiency of players in Korean Baseball Organization is estimated as performance measure, and compared with the efficiency scores of national squad members. The paper focuses on the proper choice of DEA model in a baseball setting, thereby selecting the BCC model with non-discretionary variable. Two input variables(plate appearances and stolen bases to enforce) and three output variables(runs, on-base plus slugging and stolen base percentage) are used to evaluate the efficiency of the baseball players. Results showed that 22 players among 97 players were classified as efficient and 8 players among 12 national squad members were as efficient. These findings indicate a potential for DEA to be a major part of the analytical approaches in evaluating the relative efficiency of players.
Keywords
Baseball; Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA); Performance evaluation;
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