Being Patient With Coaches With Poor Record

I have written a few blog posts here about sports franchises but never ventured into trying to understand how teams and franchises determine who to hire as coach or manager. Just recently, Chelsea Football Club dismissed a coach before the end of his contract in a way that did not make sense to many dispassionate observers. It confirmed my hunch that many soccer clubs in Europe engage in a revolving door of appointment and dismissal of coaches with little for what they expect to change. In the case of the soccer club that I mentioned above, it is a sign of the fact that the owner of the club considers it a project for prestige and does not consider the severance pay that he has made in having appointed and parted ways with nine coaches over a similar number of years as perhaps wasteful.

While it is known that North American sports franchises tend to be more commercially savvy, this article suggests that a good number of them dismiss coaches just by reviewing the recent performance. together with the academic article that involves statistical analyses, it becomes clear that most of these changes make no sense because most of the replacements do not do much better and that these abrupt and frequent changes represent poor use of scarce resources