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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 …
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linear ordinary least squares (OLS) model for log-attendance data from the years 1991-2007. Match day weather, timing of the … that offering the option of buying the tickets in advance has had an isolated positive effect on attendance for the …
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Using games from Major League Baseball's 2007 season, individual game attendance is estimated using censored normal … regression with home-team fixed-effects. Included in the model are several factors affecting attendance, such as divisional and … interleague rivalries, that to date have been omitted from the literature. The relationship between attendance and game …
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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. …
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a starting pitcher prior to the game affects attendance. The author’s major findings are (a) In the PL, the salary … (and overall number of wins) of the home team’s starting pitcher is positively related to attendance, while that of the … nor that of the visiting team affect attendance. …
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influences the MLB game attendance. The results strongly suggest that fantasy baseball participation positively influences MLB … game attendance. …
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The game of baseball was an integral part of life in 20th-century America. The relation baseball had with its fans, though, evolved as the game moved from quiet pastime to a multibillion dollar business. As the presented evidence will suggest, consumer demand at the close of the 20th century was...
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Although Major League Baseball has a long history, most studies of attendance have focused on recent years because … analyzing individual team attendance records between 1904 and 2012. If important missing variables are determined using common … factors that can influence between-team attendance, the attendance function can be estimated by a panel factor model. Our …
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analyze the effect of the World Cup on WPS attendance. The results indicate that attendance for matches played after the World …% attendance bump although this effect is imprecisely estimated. …
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While the determinants of Major League Baseball attendance have been thoroughly researched, the literature is … conspicuously incomplete in regard to the attendance effects of star players. Addressing two concerns in the research, this study … develops two measures of players’ star power and, analyzing within-season fluctuations in game attendance from 1969 …
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