Transfer Value of Soccer Players

Hubert Pun; Philip Kim

Product #:9B16E030_P

Supplier:Ivey

Discipline:International Business, Management Science

Setting:2015

Details:Case (PDF) • 2 pages • 2016-10-12

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Media, entertainment, and professional sports

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In 2016, a soccer fan closely followed the scores, standings, and transfers of players in the European soccer leagues. Having witnessed countless exchanges of players from one team to another, she wondered about the factors that team managers considered when determining the players’ market values. She gathered data on 77 notable soccer players in an effort to better understand the essential factors that made the players valuable. Could she use the variables she had collected to also build a functioning model that would predict a player’s market value?

Learning Objectives

This case is suitable for a management science elective course focusing on linear regression at the MBA or undergraduate level. After completion of the case, students will be familiar with the following concepts and techniques:

correlation and multicollinearity;
continuous, binary, and categorical variables;
the criteria for using linear regression;
statistical significance and p-values; and
using and interpreting the linear regression model