Weighting the Positions and Skills of Volleyball Sport by Using AHP: A real life application

Abstract

Team formation problem for sports clubs has become one of the essential challenges to be competent economically and sportively. This challenge is getting insuperable due to technological improvements in data collection, increase in the number of players and different features of the problem in different time stages. The complexity of the problem could be hurdled by using systematic methods for giving reasonable decisions. The coaches of sports clubs identify the players whether they are going to be included in the squad or in the starting line-up of the team. The skills, the positions and their importance levels should be determined for this selection process. In this paper, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is shown to be suitable for sports team formation problem to weight the skills and positions. The steps of AHP are outlined for volleyball team formation problem and a real life application of this approach for a volleyball sport club is presented. We also discuss how to use these results for decision making of a team formation.