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important and difficult. To offer some insights, this article examines a timing decision from sports. The penalty shootout in …
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Rottenberg’s “The Baseball Players’ Labor Market†holds the original ideas behind many threads of the sports … the IP has been “morphed†into the Coase theorem in portions of the sports economics literature. Rottenberg deserves …
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This article tests for the existence of two types of selection biases in sports markets. First, the better …
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Many countries compete fiercely for the right to host mega-events like the World Cup. Proponents of hosting mega-events claim that yields economic gains. Many available studies focus on partial effects of hosting or concern ex post analyses. The authors utilize the existing literature to perform...
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Allegations of selection bias toward the major conferences and teams with committee representation have previously been levied on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Basketball tournament selection committee. We illustrate the source of this bias is political correctness. When...
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This article examines the determinants of the earnings of PGA Tour golfers from the period 1992-2001. Our goal is to determine whether the returns to various golf skills have changed over time. In recent years, golf analysts have claimed that driving distance has become the preeminent skill in...
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In this article, we use attendance data from the two main domestic cricket leagues in England and Wales to estimate the impact of a series of recent structural changes. We find that changes to the organization of cricket in England have had major impacts on attendance. Attendance is...
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In this article, the author reconsiders the so-called win maximization model, taking into account a number of criticisms that have been raised in the literature. One of the main issues is the application of the more relevant Cournot-Nash equilibrium, rather than the Walrasian fixed-supply model,...
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From historical odds Cain and Haddock assign the probability of a tie at 25% and offer functional forms for the standard deviation of a league with equal chances of a win for each team under different point assignment schemes. They then track the ratio of actual to these idealized standard...
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In this article, the authors test two different kinds of bias—the favorite-long shot/favorite-underdog bias and the home team bias—and distinguish between the two, using a distinctive feature of the Australian Football League (AFL): the fact that many games are played on neutral...
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