Dynamic Simulation for Development of the Professional Baseball Game in Taiwan

Baseball is one of the most important sports in Taiwan, but Taiwanese professional baseball has faced major challenges. Consequently, many skilled baseball players from Taiwan choose to pursue careers in the United States and Japan. Baseball has been the most popular sport in Taiwan since 1968, but professional baseball was not organized until 1990. In reality, the operation of professional baseball is subject to the impact of factors such as parent corporations, sponsorship, media, fans, teams, players, advertisers, other leisure organizations, player ethics, and the social environment. These factors interact with each other and form a complex and dynamic system. This paper uses system dynamics to examine the system structure of the development of Taiwanese professional baseball from 1990~2008, increasing understanding of the system behavior of Taiwanese professional baseball, simulating the developmental trends of Taiwanese professional baseball in the future, and discussing related strategies.