Originally posted by Shallow Blue I don't recall whether it was MOTD or its Dutch equivalent, but I recently saw a football show where they'd done the maths. When your team is in dire straits, firing your coach halfway through the season and hiring a new one brings you, according to the statistics... as near to nothing as makes no difference. No important gain, no significant loss (exce ...[text shortened]... another who can't, either, is as likely to hurt as help. Dalglish is a toincoss.
Richard
That sounds very interesting, I'd love to take a look at the study.
Do you remember more? I tried googling but found no application to football.
Originally posted by Shallow Blue No important gain, no significant loss (except financial, I suppose). When a team is not performing, replacing one coach who can't make them with another who can't, either, is as likely to hurt as help. Dalglish is a toincoss.
Richard
If Dalglish were just 'manager B' then I'd agree, but the respect and admiration he gets from the players and the fans (who are a massive driver of motivation) over that given to 'manager A' (Hodgson) is surely enough to make a significant impact on the performances for the rest of the season (if we could take out managerial/tactical differences between the managers).
Originally posted by Daemon Sin http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0270.00039/abstract
I got the feeling that the research they were talking about involved more recent data, but - sorry, Palynka - I did not pay enough attention to remember exact details, so it might well have been this one.
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