Predicting full retirement attainment of NBA players

Giorgos Foutzopoulos, Nikolaos Pandis and Michail Tsagris

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Abstract: The aim of this analysis is to predict whether an National Basketball Association (NBA) player will be active in the league for at least 10 years so as to be qualified for NBA's full retirement scheme which allows for the maximum benefit payable by law. We collected per game statistics for players during their second year, drafted during the years 1999 up to 2006, for which, information on their career longetivity is known. By feeding these statistics of the sophomore players into statistical and machine learning algorithms we select the important statistics and manage to accomplish a satisfactory predictability performance. Further, we visualize the effect of each of the selected statistics on the estimated probability of staying in the league for more than 10 years. Finally, as an illustration, we collected data from players that were drafted 11 years ago (and some are still active) and estimated their probability of surviving in the league for at least 10 years.

Keywords: BA; career duration; exit discrimination; retirement scheme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C38 C4 C53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-07-23
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Working Paper: Predicting Full Retirement Attainment of NBA Players (2024)
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