Study: Coaches Really Do Affect Sports Success

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Researchers at the University of Chicago have determined that the impact coaches have on a team's success is significant, and that certain coaches are more effective than others.

"How Much do Coaches Matter?" was presented earlier this month at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston. The study, by Christopher Berry and Anthony Fowler of the U. of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, acknowledges that coaches often take the credit or the blame for their team's success or lack of it, and are compensated handsomely for bearing that burden. "Although we have anecdotal evidence that coaches matter, the sports analytics literature has generally concluded that they do not," the authors wrote. "We present a new method for estimating coach effects, which we call Randomization Inference for Leader Effects, or RIFLE."

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