Decision Support System For The Coaching Staff in the Process of Preliminary Selection of Players

Nowadays in Ukraine, there is a need to automate the routine work of coaches and sports managers in the preliminary selection of athletes. In the process of selecting athletes for competitions of various levels, the head coach and coaching staff need to process large amounts of information about the applicants. This is especially important at the stages of preliminary selection, when the number of players to be selected for preliminary training camps is quite large, and the amount of information about each individual athlete increases accordingly. Our research has shown that despite the rapid development and application of information technology in the sports industry, there is currently no intelligent sports-specific DSS in Ukraine that helps coaching staff and sports managers automate the routine and time-consuming process of preliminary selection of athletes. Taking into account the large amount and heterogeneity of data that must be processed for decision-making by the coaching staff during the preliminary selection of players, a decision support system for preliminary selection of players is proposed. The system is based on the method of supporting decision-making by the coaching staff in the process of preliminary selection of athletes. The result of the decision support system is a recommended list of 18 players who have been selected according to the specified criteria out of a total of 24 players. If the coaching staff is not satisfied with the recommended list, it is possible to set additional criteria and use the decision support method to obtain a more accurate result. The results can also be implemented in other team sports.