Introduction to Management Science 12th Edition by Bernard Taylor

Exercise 16

In Problem Ben Cheery, the Sox general manager, also wants to use a scoring model to determine which player(s) he might sign to a free agent contract for the coming baseball season. The following table shows a weighted list of criteria he has developed and a score for each player showing how well the player satisfies his criteria.
Rank the players according to their scores. How is this ranking different from the ranking Ben determined using AHP in Problem
Problem
Ben Cheery, the Sox general manager, wants to sign at least one free agent player for the coming baseball season. He is considering four players-Joe Aaron, Mike Bass, Carlos Cabrera, and Josh Donald. He is using three criteria including the player's contract demands for salary and contract years, the player's history of injuries, and the metric "wins above a replacement player" called WAR that quantifies a player's total contribution to his or her team. Following are his preferences for these criteria:
Following are Ben's pairwise comparisons of the players for the criteria:


Using AHP determine how Ben should rank the free agents.