Performance Efficiency in NCAA Basketball
Department
Exercise Science and Sport Management
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2017
Abstract
This study employs data envelopment analysis to examine the efficiency of men’s college basketball programs in producing competitive and academically successful teams. Employing inputs measuring team talent, academic ability and experience as well as a program’s basketball-specific expenditures and measures of coaching ability and experience, two efficiency measures are estimated, which rank teams according to their technical efficiency in producing each of the outputs desired by athletic departments and universities. These measures of efficiency are useful in allowing administrators to determine how their basketball programs compare to other programs across the country using a more holistic measure of success.
Journal Title
Journal of Sports Economics
Journal ISSN
1527-0025,1552-7794
Volume
20
Issue
2
First Page
218
Last Page
241
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1177/1527002517731873