In general, the purpose of analytics in basketball is for a positive result. The highest positive result is the NBA title championship. This is the only measurement of a good business in the NBA.
Using analytics in basketball can help lead a team to that championship game. Using a value chain, adding activities to pass through a chain and gaining value at each stage along with analytics can further the likelihood of not only going to the championship game, but winning it. Just using analytics on the court doesn’t win a team, but an organization as a whole it can. The way a team has money to afford top players or trades is through revenue. The revenue of a team and its organization as whole is accomplished from the top of the pyramid, the owners, …show more content…
Their job became not only to own and run the organization, but to make sure the team has enough money for the trades General
Manager Sam Hinkie requires to rebuild the franchise. Due to their experience with value chain analysis, they already know to analyze not only their own internal cost structures, but also to analyze their competitor’s structure. Analyzing and comparing to competitors in the NBA up to 80 percent of the market share is the only way Harris and Blitzer will make improvements (Chen). To analyze the Sixers value chain, it is imperative to start from the beginning.
First aspect of the value chain is to include the primary or direct activities of the chain. They are directly concerned with creating and delivering a product. In the case of the 76ers, the obvious choice would be the team winning most of their games because a winning team brings in revenue. Yet, an NBA team can actually generate revenue through their consumer, or fan base. Looking at the 76ers now, it must be noted, this is a team in the process of rebuilding. They are in the middle of a tear down to stock pile draft picks and young players (“Philadelphia 76ers”). A ruling attempted to be passed that a …show more content…
Since the 76ers are operating in an industry where most of the competitors are publically traded, the public records of not only the fans but an overall standing of the team in available for public record.
For the season of 2014-2015, the Sixers generated net arena revenue used for debt payments of
$125 million. That is $160 million less than the top of Forbes list, the L.A. Lakers. The Sixers overall revenue that is shareable among all teams is $333 million, compared to $4 million for the Lakers, shows there is very little income for the Sixers (“Los Angeles Lakers”). It would be safe to assume since the industry is technically populated with privately held companies, so the cost analysis should not include specific costs, or unlikely for the competitor to give out that information, but most of this information is known. In the NBA, it would be difficult to not have a competitive advantage with all the information known, yet teams still struggle, like the 76ers.
That being said, the consumer is the first link in primary activity value chain to bring in the most revenue, specifically inbound logistics. Inbound logistics is defined as all the activities with
Using analytics in basketball can help lead a team to that championship game. Using a value chain, adding activities to pass through a chain and gaining value at each stage along with analytics can further the likelihood of not only going to the championship game, but winning it. Just using analytics on the court doesn’t win a team, but an organization as a whole it can. The way a team has money to afford top players or trades is through revenue. The revenue of a team and its organization as whole is accomplished from the top of the pyramid, the owners, …show more content…
Their job became not only to own and run the organization, but to make sure the team has enough money for the trades General
Manager Sam Hinkie requires to rebuild the franchise. Due to their experience with value chain analysis, they already know to analyze not only their own internal cost structures, but also to analyze their competitor’s structure. Analyzing and comparing to competitors in the NBA up to 80 percent of the market share is the only way Harris and Blitzer will make improvements (Chen). To analyze the Sixers value chain, it is imperative to start from the beginning.
First aspect of the value chain is to include the primary or direct activities of the chain. They are directly concerned with creating and delivering a product. In the case of the 76ers, the obvious choice would be the team winning most of their games because a winning team brings in revenue. Yet, an NBA team can actually generate revenue through their consumer, or fan base. Looking at the 76ers now, it must be noted, this is a team in the process of rebuilding. They are in the middle of a tear down to stock pile draft picks and young players (“Philadelphia 76ers”). A ruling attempted to be passed that a …show more content…
Since the 76ers are operating in an industry where most of the competitors are publically traded, the public records of not only the fans but an overall standing of the team in available for public record.
For the season of 2014-2015, the Sixers generated net arena revenue used for debt payments of
$125 million. That is $160 million less than the top of Forbes list, the L.A. Lakers. The Sixers overall revenue that is shareable among all teams is $333 million, compared to $4 million for the Lakers, shows there is very little income for the Sixers (“Los Angeles Lakers”). It would be safe to assume since the industry is technically populated with privately held companies, so the cost analysis should not include specific costs, or unlikely for the competitor to give out that information, but most of this information is known. In the NBA, it would be difficult to not have a competitive advantage with all the information known, yet teams still struggle, like the 76ers.
That being said, the consumer is the first link in primary activity value chain to bring in the most revenue, specifically inbound logistics. Inbound logistics is defined as all the activities with