Previous research based on revealed preferences cannot assess whether (increasingly imbalanced) football competitions …

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 …

An attendance equation is estimated using data on individual games played in the Spanish First Division Football League …

largely (although not exclusively) on baseball. Mainly due to a dearth of match-play statistics, there have been few studies … football teams. On the basis of computed residuals, the authors also identify those teams shown to be relatively efficient and …

successful in the gambling market for professional football. Contrary to the stock market, National Football League betting is … found to be highly efficient. Because risk is constant for all football wagers, results support the argument that abnormal …

This article tests the relationship between earnings and schooling for male footballers of the Portuguese Football …

level and nature of players' salaries in the National Football League (NFL). Their study is limited, however, by the fact … that--unlike most other professional athletes--football players are evaluated by position-specific statistics. The authors …

Using the stochastic frontier framework, estimates of relative fan loyalty in professional football for 1990 to 1997 … conform to anecdotal evidence as to which teams have the best fans in the National Football League. The decision of whether to … relocate a professional football franchise is related to fan loyalty and other explanatory variables. Lt is found that a …

and after free agency. Previous attempts to test the theory's applicability to major league baseball were either …