Measuring the Technical Efficiency of Hockey Legends: Who is the Best NHL Player of All Time?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.muni.cz/studiasportiva/article/view/37619/32612" target="_blank" >https://journals.muni.cz/studiasportiva/article/view/37619/32612</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/StS2024-1-10" target="_blank" >10.5817/StS2024-1-10</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Measuring the Technical Efficiency of Hockey Legends: Who is the Best NHL Player of All Time?

Original language description

The aim of the research is to determine the technical efficiency of legendary hockey players in the National Hockey League (NHL), to create a ranking of these players and to reveal the best NHL players of all time. The research uses statistical data on 379 players from the 1944/45 season to the 2023/24 season. The methodology is based on multi-criteria analysis, specifically the concept of data envelopment analysis (DEA). The DEA provides an objective measure of the overall playing profile of hockey players and can help supplement the information in rankings provided by sports journalists. Andersen and Petersen‘s model is used to evaluate the data collected, providing super efficiency scores by aggregating NHL statistics related to various aspects of the game to produce a final ranking of hockey legends. The concept of data envelopment analysis works with multiple variables and allows for greater objectivity to be incorporated into the rankings. The number of games played is chosen as one of the model‘s input variables. The output variables include: number of goals scored, number of assists, plus/minus, inverse of penalty minutes, points per game, number of shots, number of individual awards, and number of Stanley Cups won. The research named Wayne Gretzky, Butch Goring and Serge Savard as the best players in the NHL historically in terms of technical efficiency. Among other things, the ranking of legendary hockey players revealed that players with a high number of games played or points scored are not necessarily technically efficient.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50901 - Other social sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studia sportiva

ISSN

2570-8783

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

113-126

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85201693893