A note on the ‘Linsanity’ of measuring the relative efficiency of National Basketball association guards

Applied Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 4193-4202

  Lee, Boon L ^a   Worthington, Andrew C ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basketball players; Data envelopment analysis; National Basketball Association; Technical efficiency; Undesirable output

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; SPORT;

EID: 84909976401     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2013.770125     Document Type: Article

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