Does a new football coach lead to better results?

In this paper we study whether the change of a manager and/or the line-up lead to better performance. We use data from the Dutch football competition. In order to model the various data we use an ordered probit and two binary probit models. Overall we have not found a uniform strategy in terms of overlap in line-up that leads to improved performance. In some cases a strategy in terms of overlap in line-up leads to improved performance, while the same strategy could lead to bad performance for another team. However there is some evidence that changing line-up affect performance.