Research Papers

Ferrridge, George

This paper focuses on closing the gap between the wealth of available data to analyse player performance and the dearth of data for managerial performance. It develops an index to rank managers based on their ability to improve player performance, introducing a generalizable algorithm that allows the index to improve based on new data. It finds, in keeping with current literature, that most coaches appear to be interchangeable, but a few notable names do stand out as exceptional.