Team Performance Management: Volume 25 Issue 3/4

Guest editorial

Daniel Plumley, Girish Ramchandani, Robert Wilson

Does size matter?: An investigation of competitive balance in the English Premier League under different league sizes

Girish Ramchandani, Daniel Plumley, Harry Preston, Rob Wilson

This paper aims to explore at what league size competitive balance reaches its best level through a longitudinal study and by using the English Premier League (EPL) as an example.

Copa America: a resource-based theory of football talent

Peter Omondi-Ochieng

Guided by the resource-based theory, the purpose of this study was to predict the role of football talent in the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) rankings…

Measuring player development outputs in European football clubs (2005-2006 to 2015-2016)

Steve Bullough, Richard Coleman

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) legislative intervention around “home-grown” player quotas came into effect for the 2006-2007 season, aiming to protect playing…

Dynamic frontier estimation for monitoring team performances: A case on Turkish first division football league

Melike Yılmaz, Çağlar Aksezer, Tankut Atan

This paper aims to investigate how predictions of football league standings and efficiency measures of teams, obtained through frontier estimation technique, evolve compared to…

Strategic analysis of medal markets at the Winter Olympics: Introducing an index to analyse the market potential of sports disciplines

Andreas Christoph Weber, Veerle De Bosscher, Simon Shibli, Hippolyt Kempf

This paper aims to propose the concept of market potential analysis, which is commonly applied in economics, as a method to enable these investment decisions to be based on sound…