If you’ve been following me on Twitter (and you really should), I’ve been posting graphics of MLS Front-Office Efficiency figures for every club in the league. I have made major changes to the formulation this year, and at any rate there are newcomers to this site all the time, so I will present Version 3 […]
The 2013 Major League Soccer regular season concluded two weeks ago, and it’s time to repeat our past analysis of each club’s “front-office efficiency” at the end of the season. I define front-office efficiency as the marginal payroll costs per points earned by each club in MLS. You can find the original benchmarking analysis from […]
Last month I wrote on the marginal payroll costs per point earned (which I called “front-office efficiency”) in the 2012 Major League Soccer season. (You can find more details on the approach in the linked post and the articles linked therein.) One of the criticisms of the metric was that it failed to take into […]
Last year I wrote a series of posts that sought to find out the marginal payroll costs per point earned in Major League Soccer. This year I repeat the same analysis for the just-concluded 2012 regular season.As was the case last year, I calculated team payrolls using player base salary data from the MLS Players […]
I was looking for other publications that explored the connection between payroll and performance in other American team sports, and came across this interesting series of articles by ESPN's Patrick Hruby published at the beginning of the year on front-office efficiency in American sports leagues. He covers the Big Four sports leagues as well as […]
Now that the 2011 MLS Cup Playoffs are in full swing, I've taken a look back at the just-completed regular season with a post on the relationship between payroll and league performance and another on the marginal payroll cost per point won in the league. In this post, I'll expand the marginal payroll cost study […]
Following on from my previous post on the relationship between Major League Soccer payrolls and on-field performance, I consider how efficient league teams have been in the 2011 regular season. I seek to answer the question, What is an MLS team's cost per point relative to the league average? (more…)
