On the evaluation of soccer players: a comparison of a new game-theoretical approach to classic performance measures

Benjamin R. Auer and Tobias Hiller

Applied Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 22, issue 14, 1100-1107

Abstract: In this article, we analyse the relation of a new measure for evaluating the importance of soccer players, recently proposed by Hiller (2015), to classic metrics of player performance. Using state-of-the-art bootstrap correlation testing and a data set of teams for the German soccer league (Bundesliga), we find evidence that even though this new game-theoretical approach has no significant correlation to a large number of performance measures, it is significantly related to some of the most important measures typically used in academic research (e.g. the player scores published by sports magazines and the number of played matches). These results indicate that the theoretically appealing new measure can be considered an interesting variable in pay-performance regressions and should be used accordingly in future research.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1005809

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