儘管大量經濟學與社會學文獻探討如何辨識運動員天賦，體育界對於如何辨識天賦仍然沒有定論。兩派學者對於能否辨認天賦也有不同的解釋，且皆缺乏綜觀不同年齡層之比較。本文深度訪談五位分別來自美國及台灣、執教於不同籃球層級的教練，探究教練們在進行不同層級籃球員的天賦辨識、人才招募時，優先擷取的資訊、篩選條件及注重的球員特質有何不同及為何有這些差異？
研究得知由於組織資源、不同層級籃球競爭性等差異，教練會依照不同籃球層級調整該階段最需獲取的資訊。並仰賴自身的執教經驗、直覺及數據分析等綜合辨識方式搜集球員的資訊，尤其注重球員場下的行為以及在場上所呈現的態度等較難以透過數據體現出來的資訊。
在天賦辨識早期高中階段，教練重視體格、體能狀態及基本動作；晚期大學、職業階段，在球團人力、資金的大量投入、球賽競爭性與人才競爭度提升下，教練及球團除了採納早期的項目外，也會更著重參考數據分析所呈現出來的特質，例如：效率值；並仰賴其他管道擷取資訊以利多面向的評選球員。

How coaches detect talent remains unclear in all sports around the world. Despite a vast literature in economics and sociology focus on specific age groups of sports' talent identification. However, they have different explanations on whether we can detect talented players in sports. This thesis explores the information that basketball coaches want to gather and why coaches spot on different criteria from different age groups of athletes. This thesis conducts five in-depth interviews with coaches who lead different levels' teams. The participants indicate their preferences to collect athletes' private information such as motivation and leadership using their intuition and experience.
Physicality and basic skill sets are the dominant traits at the earlier identification stage because performance statistics are not valuable. In contrast, coaches consider more diverse attributes and statistical-oriented traits such as efficiency rate in the later stage due to resources and improved playing competitiveness.

THESIS VALIDATION LETTER ……………………...…………………… i
摘要 ……………………..………………….………………………………....ii
ABSTRACT (English) …………………..…………………………………...iii
1. INTRODUCTION ………………………….…………………………… 1
2. LITERATURE REVIEW …………………………………………......... 5
2.1 Talent in Human Resource Management ………………………...…….. 5
2.1.1 Public Information vs. Private Information ………………………....7
2.2 Economic Research on Sports Talent Identification ……...…………... 11
2.2.1 Prediction of Future Playing Outcome …………………………..... 13
2.2.2 Dominant Factors ……………………………………//…………... 14
2.3 Multidimensional Factors …………..………………………………… 17
2.3.1 Coaches’ Taste …………………………………………………… 18
2.3.2 Difference of Talent Definition …………………………………….19
2.3.3 Non-tangible Performance …………………………………….…… 20
2.3.4 Gut Feeling ………………………………………………...………. 21
2.4 Research Gap ……………………………………………….….…….. 22
3. METHODOLOGY ……………………………………..…………….... 24
3.1 Research Design …………………………………………..………….. 24
3.2 Data Collection …………………………………..……………………29
3.3 Data Analysis ………………………………………..……………….. .31
4. RESULTS …………………………………………………………… 32
4.1 Tangible and Non-tangible Performance ………………………..……. 32
4.2 Earlier Stage . …………………………..…………………………….. 39
4.3 Later Stage …………………………...……………………………….. 47
5. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS ……………………..………… 58
5.1 Limitation …….. ………………………..……………………………. 64
6. REFERENCE ………………………………………………………… 67
7. APPENDIX ……………………………………………………………. 75
7.1 Interview Guide ………………………..……………………………... 75




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Table 3-1: Demographic of Participants .………………………………….. 28

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