Date
2018
Document Type
Paper
Department
School of Business
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Nate Peach
Abstract
The soccer world operates as a free market. Buying, selling, and trading of players is vital to the success of a club. A successful soccer club brings a great deal of revenue and growth to a local economy. Therefore, clubs ought to be prudent when signing players. In this paper, we use ordinary least squares regressions on Major League Soccer player data from 2015-2018 to determine the effect strikers and goalkeepers have on team success. In other words, what is the marginal impact of a good striker relative to a bad one? A good goalkeeper relative to a mediocre one? Finally, we include salary data to determine if clubs are paying strikers and goalkeepers according to their performance and production over the course of a season.
Recommended Citation
Bedsole, Carter and Buckley, Gary, "Building a Soccer Dynasty" (2018). Student Scholarship - College of Business. 11.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/gfsb_student/11