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Can Salary Allocation Affect Winning Percentage In The National Hockey League?
Holeksa, Zachary Thomas ; Chytilová, Helena (advisor) ; Prokop, Jaromír (referee)
The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the most efficient allocation of salary in the National Hockey League, with respect to the positional groups of forwards, defensemen, and goaltenders. With the hypothesis that the most efficient method by which to allocate salary is disproportional between the three groups, three different regressions are run. The results of the regressions and subsequent tests confirm the hypothesis that teams should perform better if they do not allocate their available salary proportionally. It is found, holding spending on goaltenders constant, that teams should perform better if they invest more in either forwards or defensemen. The results are in support of previous papers, written by Marchand et al. (2007) and Simmons & Berri (2011), that an egalitarian pay system is not ideal.
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Betting Portal
Nagy, Erik ; Očenášek, Pavel (referee) ; Burget, Radek (advisor)
The main subject of this bachelor thesis is to propose and to implement an information system for a betting portal, which makes possible to predict NHL matches, to share tips between tipsters and to rate the success of the tipsters in a betting competition. The aplication is implemented as an internet portal using PHP and MySQL.
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Use of regression for analysis of attendance of individual teams from NHL
Turek, Tomáš ; Řezanková, Hana (advisor) ; Vrabec, Michal (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on an analysis of regression which is concerned with the average of the spectator attendance in home games of individual teams from National Hockey League in the 2014/2015 season. The aim of this thesis is to consider the selected factors which might have an influence over the increase and the decline of attendance and the comparison to the results of selected regression methods at the selection of the variables to the regression model. The main benefit of this bachelor thesis is in the practical application of the analysis of regression including the selection of the best set of the independent variables with the utilization of various regression methods. A part of thesis is also a factual interpretation of the obtained results. For the selection of independent variables was used the stepwise method, forward and backward method.
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An analysis of individual efforts of NHL players
Houdek, Jakub ; Černý, Michal (advisor) ; Formánek, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis is focused on application of econometric methods in the area of sport statistics, specifically in the area of ice hockey. Datasets were extracted from the National Hockey League (NHL) website, from the RTSS (Real Time Scoring System) from seasons 2002/2003 to 2014/15 by using the R package nhlscrapr. The Analysis of these datasets is based on previous work by Brian Macdonald [1]. The result is an adjusted +/- statistics (plus - minus), which describes the individual performance of each player. These statistics were later used for an estimation of probability of advance of selected teams to the playoffs, assuming the selected team uses anticipated players. These estimations were obtained by usage of logistic regression. It was found out, that the predictive ability of these models is weak.
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Repair mortars/artificial stone for restoration of biodetritic limestones
Tišlová, R. ; Novotná, Adéla
This study deals with the properties of repair mortars for two types of biodetritic limestones from Kutná Hora and St. Margarethen (Austria). The binder of the mixtures was based on natural hydraulic lime (NHL), which has good processability and fits to optical properties of the substrates. Properties of repair mortars were modified by the type of aggregate (crushed rock, normalized quartz sand and mixture of aggregates). The artificial stone samples were characterized by means of the microstructure description and measurement of selected physical and mechanical properties.
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Do players in NHL play better in their contract year season?
Weber, Vít ; Hronza, Martin (advisor) ; Babin, Jan (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines wheather or not the attackers in NHL occurs strategic behavior called shirking. To verification the thesis anylizes the efekt of contract year to points per game in the competition. The data are obtained for seasons 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013. Effect of the depandence of contract year to player points per game is captured by the independent dummy variable CON. The estimation method ordinary least squares is used. After detecting presence of heteroskedasticity model is estimates with method of heteroscedasticity corrected standart errors. The coeficient results indicates that the attackers in NHL increase their points per game for 0,02 in contract year ceteris paribus.
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Competitive balance in professional sports leagues
Kováč, Ivan ; Kotáb, Jiří (advisor) ; Kuchár, Róbert (referee)
The thesis deals with the competitive balance in professional sports leagues. It focuses on the comparison of two systems: open European and closed North American. Aim is to analyze competitive balance in selected leagues. Open system is represented by the top football leagues of Europe and closed by NHL. It specifies what regulatory instruments are adopted. The thesis also tries to find answer to question whether competitive balance influences the average attendance. Within NHL, it examines whether salary cap improved the competitive balance.
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NHL Players Reward Management and Practice
Calta, Ondřej ; Dvořáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Cetkovský, Pavel (referee)
The thesis investigates the rewarding system of professional ice-hockey players in the National Hockey League. The opening part describes theoretical foundation of collective bargaining and human resources management activities -- reward management and performance appraisal, while it also reviews related bases of sports economics. The empirical chapters describe the framework of reward practices as a result of collective bargaining between representatives of the National Hockey League club owners and the National Hockey League Players'Association and investigate effects of the Salary Cap and related instruments of cooperation between the clubs on the player labour market and certain activities of human resources management of the clubs. The thesis discovers a large impact of collective bargaining on economic system of the NHL, low flexibility of rewarding system as a result of Salary Cap related restrictions, a significant impact of these restrictions on the mobility of players within the market and an increase in importance of the club rewarding system rationalization. The thesis also aims for alternative application of the findings on HRM in organizations of more traditional sectors of economy.
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Salary Cap and Its Influence on the NHL Human Resource Management
Calta, Ondřej ; Beroušek, Petr (advisor) ; Campbell, Jan (referee)
This thesis describes the impact of salary restraints adopted by the National Hockey League after the 2004/05 season lock-out on human resource management (especially building of a team) and on a professional ice-hockey labour market. The theoretical part contains a description of all NHL HR management procedures and rules necessary to grasp the following empirical part. Negotiations, which led to formation of the contemporary Collective Bargaining Agreement are also mentioned in this part. The empirical chapters describe concrete impacts of the salary cap, some of which are illustrated in the case study. I ponder the veracity of hockey and economic experts' statements according to statistical evidence. The findings of my thesis point out a significant influence of the salary cap on HR management, concerning the (re)building of an NHL team. There is a growth of the importance of drafted players, while the trade volume of key players decreases. The salary cap also caused a more equal wage distribution at the expense of greatest stars and supported the employment of less experienced players. The thesis should set the basis for a more profound research of the NHL salary cap effects.
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Problematika ekonomického oceňování hráčů ve sportovních profesionálních klubech
Hniličková, Radka ; Novotný, Jiří (advisor) ; Heřman, Jan (referee)
Ekonomika sportu,odlišnosti podnikání se sportem od jiných výrobních odvětví, financování sportovních klubů v Evropě, financování sportovních klubů v USA, profesionální sport v USA, měřená a hodnocení kvality hráče,alternativní přístupy pro měření kvality hráče, analýza závislostí, aplikace metody v PQI England Premier League, ocenění dlouhodobého nehmotného majetku, profesionální smlouva v NHL, odhad možné budoucí smlouvy
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