Performance statistics of football players as a determinant of transfer fees
Date
2017-11
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
This study aims to find the performance statistics and characteristics that determine
a football player’s value in the transfer market. Football players who were transferred in
the summer window of the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 seasons were used in the research.
Players were divided into three groups - defenders, midfielders, and forwards. Along with
a general model describing qualitative characteristics of these players, each group had its
own set of performance statistics specific to their positions which were used to determine
their values in the transfer market. Counterintuitively, only a few of these position-specific
statistics were significant in determining a player’s value; more qualitative statistics were
significant in determining the value. This may be due to certain intangible traits that the
variables cannot capture that may hold more weight in determining how much a team is
willing to pay to attain the services of a player.
Description
Keywords
football transfers, transfer fees