Article: This town is not big enough for the both of us: bootstrapped dual-role factor data envelopment analysis of Major League Baseball with two teams in one city Journal: International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing (IJSMM) 2025 Vol.25 No.7 pp.1 - 31 Abstract: This research studies teams in Major League Baseball (MLB) that share the same metropolitan area with another team in the same professional baseball league. This research utilises a special type of data envelopment analysis (DEA), specifically dual-role factor DEA as the method to find the efficiency of teams that share the same market population with one another. Furthermore, the MLB teams were ranked based on efficiency by using cross-efficiency (XEff) to peer rank the teams against each other. A sample taken of several inputs and outputs, both performance-based and financial-based is injected into the DEA model to show the relative efficiencies of teams that share a location with another MLB team. Managerial implications are also discussed. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: This town is not big enough for the both of us: bootstrapped dual-role factor data envelopment analysis of Major League Baseball with two teams in one city

Authors: Justin R. Muñoz

Addresses: Angelo State University, 2601 W. Ave N, San Angelo, TX 76909, USA

Abstract: This research studies teams in Major League Baseball (MLB) that share the same metropolitan area with another team in the same professional baseball league. This research utilises a special type of data envelopment analysis (DEA), specifically dual-role factor DEA as the method to find the efficiency of teams that share the same market population with one another. Furthermore, the MLB teams were ranked based on efficiency by using cross-efficiency (XEff) to peer rank the teams against each other. A sample taken of several inputs and outputs, both performance-based and financial-based is injected into the DEA model to show the relative efficiencies of teams that share a location with another MLB team. Managerial implications are also discussed.

Keywords: data envelopment analysis; DEA; bootstrapped; efficiency; professional baseball; Major League Baseball; MLB; efficiency; cross-efficiency; dual-role factor; two teams in one city; performance-based metrics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSMM.2025.150359

International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 2025 Vol.25 No.7, pp.1 - 31

Received: 22 Aug 2024
Accepted: 08 Jul 2025
Published online: 10 Dec 2025 *

Title: This town is not big enough for the both of us: bootstrapped dual-role factor data envelopment analysis of Major League Baseball with two teams in one city

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