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In order to avoid too many tied games after playing the five-minute overtime period, the National Hockey League … introduced two rule changes in the 1999-2000 season. First, a team that loses in overtime receives one point instead of zero … points. Second, the number of skaters in overtime is reduced from five to four. The theoretical literature analyzing these …
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This paper investigates the effect of the three-point rule on the average number of goals scored per match and the prevalence of ties in Argentine professional soccer. We review the existing theoretical models to analyze the impact of the three-point rule on the offensive and defensive...
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We examine whether the three-point rule—the increase in rewards for a win from two- to three points that FIFA adopted in 1995—makes Bundesliga games become more exciting. Using regression discontinuity design as the empirical strategy, we do not find evidence that the three-point rule makes...
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Using data from 2005 to 2016, this paper examines if players in the National Hockey League (NHL) are being paid a … with the existing literature, we use lagged performance statistics and dummy variables to control for the type of NHL … of NHL player salaries. …
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We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … more likely to make it into the NHL, but display significantly lower performance across all birth cohorts than later … calendar births. In short, those in the top echelon of NHL achievement are drawn from fatter cohorts and later relative age …
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We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … more likely to make it into the NHL, but display significantly lower performance across all birth cohorts than later … calendar births. In short, those in the top echelon of NHL achievement are drawn from fatter cohorts and later relative age …
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Using data from 2005 to 2016, this paper examines if players in the National Hockey League (NHL) are being paid a … with the existing literature, we use lagged performance statistics and dummy variables to control for the type of NHL … of NHL player salaries. …
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. Based on results from a reduced form model of attendance at 6054 regular season NHL games from 2005/06 to 2009/10, we find …
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