The authors use data that are collected from the 2007 season to study attendance at Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB …, attendance is greater at games between better teams and games that the home team is more likely to win. …

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. …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This article tests for the effects of a change in competitive balance on attendance at Major League Baseball games … using game-level attendance data for the 2000-2002 seasons. Employing the difference between the winning percentages of the … balance on attendance are not symmetric, (b) the effects of a change in competitive balance increase as a team falls further …

(NBA) arenas using a pooled cross-section time series sample from 1971 to 2000. No previous NBA attendance-demand or … attendance-related study tested for such an effect. The honeymoon effect increases attendance demand 15% to 20% in the first 4 …

The Korean Professional Baseball League (KPBL) experienced a rapid decline in attendance after the mid-1990s. The … annual attendance in 2000 was less than half what it had been 5 years before. Most consider the severe economic crisis of … 1998 and competitive imbalance to have been the main reasons for this decline in attendance. The empirical evidence …

This articles uses an attendance demand model with panel data on more than 4,000 games to examine economic problems of … English Premier League clubs have substantial adverse impacts on lower division Football League gate attendance. This suggests …. Scheduling of home games close to one another also has an adverse impact on attendance. Reorganisation of fixture schedules and …