Beyond The Starting Five: Roster Depth, Player Rotation, and Team Performance in Youth Men’s Basketball

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In youth men's basketball, playoff-qualifying teams utilize significantly larger roster sizes and greater bench depth (more players receiving 5-10 minutes of playing time) compared to non-qualifying teams. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Ramazan Taşçıoğlu; Murat Aygün

doi:10.15314/tsed.1975598

August 31, 2026Turkish Journal of Sport and ExerciseOpen Access

Beyond The Starting Five: Roster Depth, Player Rotation, and Team Performance in Youth Men’s Basketball

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To evaluate differences in overall team performance, roster size, and player rotation patterns between playoff-qualifying and non-qualifying youth basketball teams across multiple seasons.
Analyzed 59 male youth teams from the Turkish Basketball Youth League across the 2017–2018, 2018–2019, and 2019–2020 competitive seasons.
Quantified competitive success by playoff qualification, overall performance by the Hollinger Efficiency Rating, bench utilization by players logging 5–10 minutes, and core rotation by players logging ≥10 minutes per game.
Conducted two-way ANOVA and independent-samples t-tests to identify differences across seasons and between qualification tiers.
Playoff-qualifying teams demonstrated significantly higher Hollinger Efficiency Ratings, larger overall roster sizes, and a greater number of players logging 5–10 minutes per game than non-qualifying teams (p < .05).
No statistically significant seasonal differences were observed for team performance, roster size, or player rotation distribution across the three evaluated years (p > .05).
A significant interaction effect was observed between playoff qualification status and season for the number of core rotation players logging 10 or more minutes per game.

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Observational study reveals greater roster depth and bench utilization in playoff-qualifying youth basketball teams, suggesting that deeper player rotations drive competitive success.

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