The Des Moines Twisters, a women’s professional basketball team, needs a new point guard and
is considering signing one of three college players—Keisha Jones, Natasha Franklin, and Kathleen
Taylor. The team will base its decision of which player to sign on four criteria: the player’s
shooting ability, rebounding ability, ball handling skills, and attitude. Following is a survey of
the three players’ college game statistics for their senior year: Although the coach can base some of her pairwise comparisons on these statistics, it is more difficult
to assess attitude. She has interviewed each player, and she moderately prefers Keisha
Jones’s attitude to Kathleen Taylor’s and strongly prefers Keisha Jones’s attitude to Natasha
Franklin’s. Assume the coach’s role and develop pairwise comparisons for all four of the criteria and between
the criteria. Use AHP to determine which player you would select.
