Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 75
Cover Image
Top Prospects and Minor League Baseball Attendance
Gitter, Seth R.; Rhoads, Thomas A. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 12 (2011) 3, pp. 341-351
Minor League Baseball attracts over 40 million fans a year. One potentially important attendance draw is the ability …€™s attendance. Their results suggest that only those prospects ranked in the top 5 and at the highest level (AAA) have an impact on … their team’s attendance and their impact on attendance is small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294531
Cover Image
Determinants of Minor League Baseball Attendance
Gitter, Seth R.; Rhoads, Thomas A. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 11 (2010) 6, pp. 614-628
Like Major League Baseball (MLB), minor league baseball attendance may be influenced by the quality of the team. We use … a minor league team’s winning percentage and attendance. We also find evidence that minor and MLB are substitutes as … increased ticket prices for the nearest MLB team lead to higher minor league attendance if that team is within 100 miles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004619
Cover Image
Sherwin Rosen, 1938-2001
Sanderson, Allen R. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 2 (2001) 3, pp. 211-212
Major League Baseball has rewarded cities that build new baseball stadiums with the chance to host the All-Star Game. Although the league asserts a significant boost to metropolitan economies due to the game, are these economic impact estimates published by the league credible? In two separate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367697
Cover Image
Competitive Balance in Sports Leagues: An Introduction
Zimbalist, Andrew S. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 3 (2002) 2, pp. 111-121
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367698
Cover Image
NCAA Scholarship Limits and Competitive Balance in College Football
Sutter, Daniel; Winkler, Stephen - In: Journal of Sports Economics 4 (2003) 1, pp. 3-18
Conventional wisdom holds that parity has increased in college football in recent decades due largely to limits on the number of scholarships teams can offer. The authors find that competitive balance has not increased in college football since the end of World War II, and they find mixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367699
Cover Image
The Rewards to Running: Prize Structure and Performance in Professional Road Racing
Lynch, James G.; Zax, Jeffrey S. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 1 (2000) 4, pp. 323-340
This article explicitly compares the incentive and sorting theories of tournament per formance in road races. Regressions omitting controls for runner ability suggest that runners record faster times the greater the loss they would suffer from finishing below their pre race ranking. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367700
Cover Image
Interleague Play and Baseball Attendance
Butler, Michael R. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 3 (2002) 4, pp. 320-334
The effects of interleague play on baseball attendance are estimated via a model of daily attendance from the 1999 … season. The results suggest that interleague play results in about a 7% increase in attendance over a comparable intraleague …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367702
Cover Image
The Determinants of Football Match Attendance Revisited: Empirical Evidence from the Spanish Football League
Garcia, Jaume; Rodriguez, Placido - In: Journal of Sports Economics 3 (2002) 1, pp. 18-38
An attendance equation is estimated using data on individual games played in the Spanish First Division Football League … the expected effects on attendance for all the variables. The estimated price elasticities are, in general, smaller than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367703
Cover Image
The Anova-Based Competitive Balance Measure: A Defense
Eckard, E. Woodrow - In: Journal of Sports Economics 4 (2003) 1, pp. 74-80
Conventional wisdom holds that parity has increased in college football in recent decades due largely to limits on the number of scholarships teams can offer. The authors find that competitive balance has not increased in college football since the end of World War II, and they find mixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367704
Cover Image
'Economics of Golf Balls': Reply
Barro, Robert J. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 1 (2000) 3, pp. 310-310
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367707