with a few teams in major cities competing head-to-head with the existing dominant league. Inevitably, the sport ends up … with one major league providing top level play, begging the question of whether sports leagues are natural monopolies. This …

Because sports are stylized combat, sports may follow power laws similar to those found for wars, individual clashes …, and acts of terrorism. We show this fact for football (soccer) by adjusting power laws that show a close relationship … between rank and points won by the clubs participating in the latest seasons of the top fifteen European football leagues. In …

This paper intends to explore the utilization of entropy through football, generalizing the interpretation of entropy …. We consider it as a measure of competitiveness of football leagues and relate it to the UEFA ranking, which ranks yearly …

political and sport variables, and we find that (a) commercial hostility; (b) the level of diplomatic relationships, (c) power … reverberates into the pitch. Moreover, sport covariates present the expected signs, namely results show that the closeness of the …

The Japanese Professional Football League (J-league) was established in 1993. Based on individual level data, this … study investigated how emergence of the league affected Japanese people playing football using the differences … more likely to play football after emergence of the J-League than before it emerged. (2) There was a positive effect of the …

This paper used the Fédération International de Football Association (FIFA) world ranking points data to examine how …

football tournaments. …

football tournaments with particular reference to the Euro 2008 football tournament. This research argues that there exists a … positive relationship between the competitive balance and success in international football tournaments. The level of the … competitive balance in a domestic football league is measured by the seasonal coefficients of variation (CV) of the end …

The phenomenon of match-fixing does constitute a constant element of sport contests. This paper presents a simple …