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It has been a long time since sport stopped to be observed Sport se ve odavno ne moe posmatrati samo u kontekstu
only in the context of a game. Modern sport is a profitable igre. Savremeni sport je unosna, komercijalizovana djelatnost.
and commercialized activity. Nowadays, there is a very U dananje vrijeme postoji trend nekontrolisane potronje
popular trend of uncontrolled expenditure of funds. How-
finansijskih sredstava. Meutim, u NBA postoji platna
ever, in the NBA there is a payment border (salary cap) which
granica (salry cap) koja odrava takmiarsku ravnoteu.
maintains the competitive balance. The subject of this paper
Predmet ovog rada su NBA klubovi i njihova uspje{nost, dok
are the NBA clubs and their success, while the goal of this
paper is to determine how big is the impact of money which je cilj rada utvrditi koliki je uticaj novca na rezultat u NBA
is spent annually on the contracts of the players on the ligi na osnovu utro{enog novca na godi{njem nivou na
outcome in the NBA league, and the number of triumphs ugovore igraa i broja ostvarenih pobjeda u regularnom
in the regular part of a season.The research included 30 NBA dijelu sezone. Istraivanjem je obuhvaeno 30 NBA klubo-
teams who competed in the NBA season 2011/2012. Each va koji su se takmiili u NBA sezoni 2011/2012, od kojih je
of them played 66 matches. The following values were fol- svaki odigrao 66 utakmica. Praene su sledee vrijednosti:
lowed: the number of club triumphs (NCT) during the regu- broj pobjeda kluba (BPK) u toku regularne sezone i koliina
Key words: The NBA league, sports result, the influence Kljune rijei: NBA liga, sportski rezultat, uticaj novca,
of money, connection. povezanost.
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Introduction Uvod
For a long time now, it has been impossible to observe sport Sport se ve odavno ne moe posmatrati samo u kontekstu
only in the context of game. The contemporary sport is a igre. Savremeni sport je unosna, komercijalizovana djelatnost.
profitable and commercialized activity. According to Forbes Prema asopisu Forbs, procjenjeno je da se na prelazu iz
magazine, it has been estimated that at the end of the 20th 20. u 21. vijek u sportskoj industriji u svijetu, godi{nje
century and in the beginnig of the 21st century more than obrtalo vi{e od dvije hiljade milijardi dolara, {to je vi{e od
2 trillion dollars were earned a year when it comes to sport kompletne automobilske, naftne i industrije turizma (Mihalovi,
industry, which is more than oil and tourism industry com- 2005).
bined (Mihailovi, 2005). Ulaganja u sport, na svjetskom nivou konstantno rastu, bez
Sport investments on the global level are constantly growing, obzira na svjetsku ekonomsku krizu. Gotovo da ne moe
despite the global economic crisis. Barely six months can proi 6 mjeseci a da nije oboren neki rekord u koliini
pass without a record beaten in the amount of money paid novca koji je izdvojen za platu igraa ili za prelazak igraa
for a player salary or a player transfer from one club into
iz jednog u drugi klub. Ova pojava naroito je izraena u
another. This phenomenon is particularly characteristc of
Evropi i Aziji, gdje ne postoje mehanizmi koji odravaju
Europe and Asia, where there are no mechanisms to support
takmiarsku ravnoteu. Postoji vi{e primjera fudbalskih
the competitive balance. There are several examples of
klubova (Chelsea, Manchester City, Paris Saint Germen,
football clubs (such as Chelsea, Manchester City, Paris Saint-
Malaga itd.) koji su pobolj{ali svoje rezultate nakon {to su ih
Germain, Malaga, etc.) whose results have improved after
kupili ambiciozni ulagai. Takoe, postoje i negativni prim-
they had been bought by ambitious investors. By contrast,
there are some negative examples in which great sums of jeri klubova koji su uloili veliki novac ali nisu ostvarili
money have been invested in clubs, but they have never znaajniji rezultat. Ova pojava je u zadnje vrijeme naroito
achieved significant results. Recently, this has become typi- izraena u koarci (Efes Pilsen, Armani Jeans, Real Madrid
cal of basketball clubs (Efes Pilsen, Armani Jeans, Real Madrid, itd.).
etc.). Meutim, u Sjedinjenim Amerikim Dravama situacija je
In the United States of America, however, the situation is drugaija. U NBA (i ostalim profesionalnim ligama) postoje
quite different. There are mechanisms in NBA (and other mehanizmi koji odravaju takmiarsku ravnoteu. Forest i
professional leagues) which maintain the competitive bal- Simons (2002) defini{u takmiarsku ravnoteu kao relativno
ance. Forest and Simons (2002) define the competitive jednaku snagu timova unutar lige. Igra moe da promjeni
balance as relatively equal strength of teams within a league. klub samo ukoliko mu je istekao ugovor sa predhodnim
A player can switch clubs only if the contract with the previ- klubom ili da bude zamjenjen drugim igraem, tako da
ous club has expired or if the player has been replaced by klubovi ne izdvajaju velike koliine novca za prelazak igraa
another player, so clubs do not pay great sums of money for iz jednog kluba u drugi. Meutim, za ugovore igraa se iz-
player transfers. Great sums of money are paid for player dvaja ogroman novac, ali i tu postoje ogranienja u vidu
contracts, but even in those cases there are limitations called salary capa.
salary cap. Salary cap je kompleksan mehanizam koji kotroli{e platni
Salary cap is a complex mechanism that controls the pay list spisak svakog tima i u okviru kojega se nalaze karakteristina
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of every team and which consists of specific rules for every pravila za svaku ligu u kojoj se primjenjuje (Leeds, 2008). U
league it is applied to (Leeds, 2008). The soft cap is used in NBA se koristi meka granica (soft cap), {to znai da klubovi
NBA league, which means that clubs can go over the limit mogu da prekorae ogranienje u specifinim sluajevima
in special cases (for example, when they want to prolong (kada produavaju ugovor sa igraima koji obnavaljaju vjer-
the contracts for players who wish to renew their loyalty to nost klubu uz poveanje zarade, potpisivanje ugovora sa
the club with the increase of their earnings or signing contracts
igraima izabranima na draftu). U sluaju prekoraenja platne
with players chosen on draft). In case of going over the pay
granice klubovi plaaju porez na luksuz (luxury tax), tako
limit, clubs pay the luxury tax, which means that for every
{to za svaki dolar prekoraenja plaaju isti iznos na ime
dollar paid over the limit, they pay the same amount of
poreza.
money for taxes.
Meka granica u NBA omoguava finansijski monijim klubo-
The soft cap in NBA enables financially more powerful clubs
vima da izdvoje vi{e novca za ugovore igraa i tako steknu
to pay more money for player contracts and thus gain certain
odreenu takmiarsku prednost. U novijoj istoriji NBA
competitive advantage. In newer history of NBA, there are
examples of clubs which achieved great progress by chang- postoje primjeri klubova koji su promjenom vlasnika i
ing the owner and increasing investments (Dallas Mavericks). poveanjem ulaganja ostvarili veliki napredak (Dallas Mav-
There are also some clubs which, despite money investments ericks). Takoe, neki klubovi i pored konstantnog ulaganja
above average, have never achieved significant results (New iznadprosjene koliine novca nisu napravili znaajniji re-
York Knicks). Considering these facts, logical question is zultat (New York Knicks). S obzirom na te injenice postav-
imposed: How much does the invested money actually affect lja se logino pitanje: Koliko zapravo uloeni novac utie na
the results in NBA league? rezultat u NBA ligi.
Paper topic are NBA clubs and their efficiency, and paper Predmet rada su NBA klubovi i njihova uspje{nost, a cilj rada
is based on the amount of the money spent on player con- je na osnovu koliine utro{enog novca na ugovore igraa i
tracts and the number of won games, to define how much broja ostvarenih pobjeda, utvrditi koliki je uticaj novca na
does the money influence the sport result in NBA league. sportski rezultat u NBA ligi.
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Methods Metode
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Tabela 1: NBA klubovi, broj ostvarenih pobjeda i koliina utro{enog novca na godi{njem nivou.
Table 1: NBA clubs, number of games won for the club and amount of money spent within one year.
Legend/Legenda: NBA clubs - NBA klubovi; Number of won games in the season 2011/2012 -
Broj pobjeda u sezoni 2011/2012; Amount of money spent (expressed in millions of dol-
lars) - Utro{eni novac (miliona dolara).
n M SD Min Max
NGW 30 33.00 10.30 7.0 50.0
AMS 30 64.52 9.15 46.9 86.0
Legend/Legenda: NGW - Number of won games in the season 2011/2012 (Broj pobjeda u sezoni
2011/2012); AMS - Amount of money spent, expressed in millions of dollars (Utro{eni
novac, miliona dolara); n - Number of entities (Broj entiteta); M - Mean (Aritmetika sredi-
na); SD - Standard deviation (Standardna devijacija); Min - Minimum (Minimum);
Max - Maximum (Maksimum).
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NGW AMS
NGW 1.000 .531
p .003
AMS .521 1.000
p .003
Legend/Legenda: NGW - Number of won games in the season 2011/2012 (Broj pobjeda u sezoni
2011/2012); AMS - Amount of money spent, expressed in millions of dollars (Utro{eni
novac, miliona dolara); p - Probability (Vjerovatnoa).
Unstand. Standard.
Coeff. Coeff. Depends
Entity t p
Variables
B SE
Constant -5.557 11.747 -.475 .639
NBA clubs AMS
NGW .598 .180 .531 3.316 .003
Legend/Legenda: NGW - Number of won games in the season 2011/2012 (Broj pobjeda u sezoni
Conclusion Zakljuak
Based on calculation of the correlation coefficient, which is Na osnovu izraunavanja koeficijenta korelacije, koji je
.531, it has been determined that there is a statistically sig-
iznosio 0,531, utvreno je da postoji statistiki znaajna
nificant correlation between the amount of the money
spentand the number of won games during the regular part povezanost izmeu koliine utro{enog novca i broja ostva-
of the season. Furthermore, the linear regression coefficient renih pobjeda u regularnom dijelu sezone. Takoe, izraunat
has been calculated, which is .598, and that means that je koeficijent linearne regresije, koji iznosi 0,598, {to znai
there is a significant influence of the invested money on the da postoji znaajan uticaj uloenog novca na broj ostvarenih
number of the achieved victories. With this, the paper hy-
pothesis has been confirmed. pobjeda. Time je potvrena radna hipoteza.
To sum up, the influence of money on score in NBA league Dakle, nesumnjivo je da postoji uticaj novca na rezultat u
exists undoubtedly. However, it is necessary to point out NBA ligi. Ipak, treba rei da uticaj novca nije presudan i da
that the influence of money is not crucial and that there are postoje drugi faktori koji utiu na sportski rezultat, ne samo
other factors that influence the sport result and this is not
only characteristic of the NBA league. Those factors are: u NBA ligi. U te faktore ubrajamo: strunost ljudskih resur-
professionalism of human resources within an organization, sa unutar organizacije, organizacionu strukuturu, meuljudske
organizational structure, interpersonal relations, etc. odnose itd.
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For the following papers, I recommend the inclusion of ad- U narednim radovima preporuujem da se uvrsti vi{e vari-
ditional variables that are going to present the influence of jabli koje e detaljni manifestovati uticaj novca i na broj
money on the number of victories in NBA league with more pobjeda u NBA ligi. Takoe, trebalo bi odrediti koliki je
details. Furthermore, the influence of other factors on sport uticaj drugih faktora koji utiu na sportski rezultat u NBA
results in NBA league should also be determined. ligi.
Korespodencija/Correspondence to:
Sini{a Jungi
Phone: 00387 65 34 63 76
E-mail: jungic.sgmail.com
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