Identifying Players’ Selection Criteria for the Development of Decision Support System for Football and Hockey

There’s a lot of opportunity for improvement from the past research for better DSS development to be used by the coach for the selection of players, assignation of player’s position and selection of the team formation. But, it is vital to understand first the criteria for the selection of a player from a coach’s point of view. This paper discusses the characteristics of football and hockey, which make both sports different yet similar to each other. The discussion is then extended to the elements of main criteria being considered by the coaches for the players to be said to have enough quality to be listed in the main team. Furthermore, the team organization or strategies for both sports are also reviewed in studying the similarities between them. The purpose is to create a systematic foundation for the Decision Support System (DSS) to be built are relevant to be used by the coaches or the managers of both sports.