This paper examines the relationship between the demand for English football on television and outcome uncertainty. It …

This paper investigates the determinants of game-day attendance in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) from …

paper, I argue that, in European soccer, collective sales do not increase competitive balance as compared to individual … distribution of drawing power and a larger domestic market size on competitive balance. These results shed new light on antitrust …

UEFA is the sports governing body for football (soccer) in Europe with 53 national associations as members of a … democratic organization. UEFA is also the most important member of FIFA, which is the international governing body for football … important league is UEFA Champions League (ChL), the “second league” is named UEFA Cup. Additionally UEFA governs soccer in …

A study of the physics of baseball has shown that air density plays a significant role in the distance a batted … baseball will travel. Air density is a function of altitude, temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure. This paper tests … if air density impacts the totals market in Major League Baseball by influencing the number of runs in a game above and …

Betting market odds for Major League Baseball are used to examine the level of uncertainty of outcome, an ex-ante form … Baseball. Therefore, the odds provide an ex-ante measure of the uncertainty of outcome of baseball games in the minds of fans … certainty in the expected outcome of the game. Bettors and fans believed favorites in Major League Baseball were more likely to …

This study examines the importance of team success for attendance for Major League Baseball teams. Winning and … attendance go together for most baseball teams, but the direction of causation is not obvious. Winning could lead to greater …

the new regulations may harm football in three different ways: By forgoing the potential benefits from substantial …