Multi Criteria Decision Making Approach for Football Team Selection

Abstract

Selecting team is one of the important issues in football. The role of a coach is selecting players that are formed subjectively without regard to various criteria. Her decision can impact team performance. Thus, this paper presents a new methodology to assess and rank football team based on multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). The aim is to select the best team for each football game by taking several criteria into account. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method is used to determine the weightings for evaluation criteria among decision makers and Case-based reasoning systems to selecting the best team. We test the efficiency of the model using Paris Saint Germain champion’s league final.