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The Sport League's Dilemma : Competitive Balance versus Incentives to Win

Palomino, F.A.; Rigotti, L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

We analyze a dynamic model of strategic interaction between a professional sport league that organizes a tournament … expected profits, while the league's objective may be either to maximize the demand for the sport or to maximize the teams … performance-based reward scheme (used by European sport leagues) may be optimal. Under joint profit maximization, full revenue …

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Revenue Sharing in Professional Sports Leagues : For the Sake of Competitive Balance or as a Result of Monopsony Power?

Palomino, F.A.; Sakovics, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

We analyze the distribution of broadcasting revenues by sports leagues.In the context of an isolated league, we show that when the teams engage in competitive bidding to attract talent, the league's optimal choice is full revenue sharing (resulting in full competitive balance) even if the...

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Forecasting the Winner of a Tennis Match

Magnus, Jan R.; Klaassen, F.J.G.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

We propose a method to forecast the winner of a tennis match, not only at the beginning of the match, but also (and in particular) during the match.The method is based on a fast and exible computer program TENNISPROB, and on a statistical analysis of a large data set from Wimbledon, both at...

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Testing some common tennis hypotheses : Four years at Wimbledon

Magnus, Jan R.; Klaassen, F.J.G.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996

In this paper we investigate the truth (more often the untruth) of seventeen commonly heard statements about tennis.We base our analysis on point-by-point data of almost 500 singles matches played at Wimbledon, 1992-1995.The seventeen hypotheses under consideration are: 1 A player is as good as...

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Collective vs Individual Sale of TV Rights in League Sports

Falconieri, S.; Palomino, F.A.; Sakovics, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

.In several cases, however, leagues won in court, on the ground that sport cannot be considered a standard good.In this paper, we …

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