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Why did Spain win Euro 2008 Football Tournament?

HALICIOGLU, Ferda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

football tournaments. …

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Research on the Prediction of the likely Winners of the Euro 2008 Football Tournament

Halicioglu, Ferda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

football tournaments with particular reference to the Euro 2008 football tournament. This research argues that there exists a … positive relationship between the competitive balance and success in international football tournaments. The level of the … competitive balance in a domestic football league is measured by the seasonal coefficients of variation (CV) of the end …

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Team Payroll, Competitive Balance, and Team Performance in the Japan Professional Baseball League: A Study using 1993-2004 Panel Data.

yamamura, eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This research aimed to explore how a team payroll has an effect on team performance as measured by the winning percentage using panel data of the Japan Professional Baseball League; separately for each of the Central and the Pacific Leagues. The major finding is that a team payroll has a...

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Bonus, effort, costs, market size and teams' performance

Papahristodoulou, Christos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper examines the effects of a win bonus, effort, costs and team size, on the demand for talented players, the win percentage and the profits of small and big teams. Teams play a Cournot game, under the following objective functions: (i) teams maximize profits, (ii) teams maximize win...

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The impacts of football point systems on the competitive balance: evidence from some European footbal leagues

HALICIOGLU, Ferda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

competitive balance in professional team sports. – 3. Football point systems and competitive balance: empirical evidence . – 4 …

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Neither Reasonable nor Necessary: “Amateurism” in Big-Time College Sports

Daniel, Rascher; Andrew, Schwarz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

The NCAA and its member schools are a joint venture that fixes the compensation of its most important workers, the athletes, at a level that is substantially below what would otherwise occur in a competitive market. Claims of amateurism and the need for competitive balance obscure the more than...

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Competitiveness in Soccer Leagues: An ordinal time series approach with evidence from the Premier League 1993 to 2014

Jones, Calvin; Jordan, Declan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper presents a novel approach to measuring competitiveness in sports leagues and tests the measure using evidence from the Premier League from 1993 to 2014. Traditional approaches to measuring the level of competitiveness have focused on win percentages and/or the dominance of subsets of...

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Entropy, competitiveness and UEFA football ranking

Ferreira, Paulo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

This paper intends to explore the utilization of entropy through football, generalizing the interpretation of entropy …. We consider it as a measure of competitiveness of football leagues and relate it to the UEFA ranking, which ranks yearly …

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International hostility and aggressiveness on the soccer pitch Evidence from European Championships and World Cups for the period 2000-2012

Caruso, Raul; Di Domizio, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Some Researchers consider soccer matches as the stylization of a war in other battlefields. Such approach was largely used to interpret the violent phenomena related to the soccer environment, while less attention has been paid to the «potential» role of political and economic interactions...

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Emergence of a professional sports league and human capital formation for sports: The Japanese Professional Football League.

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The Japanese Professional Football League (J-league) was established in 1993. Based on individual level data, this … study investigated how emergence of the league affected Japanese people playing football using the differences … more likely to play football after emergence of the J-League than before it emerged. (2) There was a positive effect of the …

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