Abstract
In any sport the selection of players for a team is fundamental for its subsequent performance. Many factors condition the selection process from the characteristics of the sport discipline to financial limitations, including a long list of restrictions associated with the environment of the competitions in which the team takes part. All of this makes the process of selecting a roster of players very complex, as it is affected by multiple variables and in many cases marked by a great deal of subjectivity. The purpose of this article was to objectively select the players for a basketball team using an evolutionary algorithm, the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) that uses stochastic search methods based on the imitation of natural biological evolution. The sample was composed of the players from the teams competing in the top Spanish basketball league, the Association of Basketball Clubs (ACB). To assess the quality of the solutions obtained, the results were compared with the teams in the ACB playing in the same competition as the players used in the study. The results make it possible to obtain different solutions for composing teams rendering financial resources profitable and taking into account the restrictions of the competition and of each sport management.
Highlights
The selection of players for a team in any sport is fundamental for its subsequent collective performance [1]
Given the volume of the results obtained in the different simulations performed in this study, these results are available for consultation in the S1 Appendix
The values referring to the statistical data on the players and the costs of the teams used in the study, obtained from the Association of Basketball Clubs (ACB) webpage, are available for consultation in the S2 Appendix
Summary
The selection of players for a team in any sport is fundamental for its subsequent collective performance [1]. There are many factors that condition the selection of the players, from the characteristics of the sport discipline, the competitions in which they take part, the regulations of the team’s reference country, the tradition or philosophy of the club, the prior undertakings/ contracts established by the club or player, to financial limitations, and the characteristics of the type of play the coach intends to develop. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript
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