Incorporating synergistic effects in team performance prediction——The case of basketball squad management

GUO Xunhua, XU Mengqi, CHEN Guoqing, LI Xiangyu

Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice ›› 2021, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (3) : 565-573.

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Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice ›› 2021, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (3) : 565-573. DOI: 10.12011/SETP2019-1108

Incorporating synergistic effects in team performance prediction——The case of basketball squad management

  • GUO Xunhua1,2, XU Mengqi1,2, CHEN Guoqing1,2, LI Xiangyu1,2
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Synergistic effects are critical to team performance. In the big data era, data analytic tools have provided us with a new approach to evaluating the synergistic effects among team members and improve team performance. However, due to the difficulty in the measurement of synergistic effects, previous studies have only considered the information of individual team members in their frameworks and ignored the roles of synergistic effects. In this paper, we take the USA National Basketball Association (NBA) as an exemplar scenario and investigate the measurement of the synergistic effects among basketball players. We propose three algorithms to quantify the synergistic effects based on team members' cooperation history and to predict team performance' incorporating the evaluated values of synergistic effects. Experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of the introduction of synergistic effects into the team performance prediction framework.

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synergistic effect / team performance / team formation / basketball squad management

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GUO Xunhua , XU Mengqi , CHEN Guoqing , LI Xiangyu. Incorporating synergistic effects in team performance prediction——The case of basketball squad management. Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice, 2021, 41(3): 565-573 https://doi.org/10.12011/SETP2019-1108

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (71572092, 71490721, 71490724); MOE Project of Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities (17JJD630006)
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