Consultation Document and Weighting Survey for Elite Coaches
This document has a dual objective. First, it serves as a consultation base for you, as an elite coach, to value a set of performance metrics extracted from tracking and event data provided by FIFA from its World Cup. Second, your responses will feed into an aggregated Data-Based Most Valuable Player (MVP) model, built from the consensus of several coaches rather than criteria defined unilaterally by a single analyst.
The Methodological Challenge: Any data-based MVP index requires two subjective decisions: which metrics to include and how much each one weighs. If these decisions are made by a single person, the index inherits their bias even if the final calculation is mathematically "objective". This form shifts those decisions to a panel of expert coaches, so the final weight of each metric is the result of professional consensus rather than an analyst's intuition.
Background: This project stems from a previous experimental study where a data-driven MVP index was built for the Women's Euro based on personal criteria. That experience highlighted the central limitation this survey aims to correct: you can view the original work here (Spanish). How your responses will be used: The weights assigned by each coach within a category will be averaged (and the dispersion between coaches will be reported as a measure of consensus or disagreement). The result will be a weighting system by category and by metric that will be applied to the real data of the tournament players.