overcome these difficulties by studying European football (soccer) clubs during 1990-2020. Detailed microdata from this setting …

win per season for a professional football team … pitch type in Major League Baseball and whether to run or pass in the National Football League. We observe more than three … million pitches in baseball and 125,000 play choices for football. We find systematic deviations from minimax play in both …

the decision making of National Football League teams during their annual player draft. This is a domain in which …

the relevant commitment scenario. The empirical analysis takes advantage of a data set from Spanish soccer player …

. To do so, we explore the behavior of professional soccer referees. Referees have discretion over the addition of extra … time at the end of a soccer game (called injury time), to compensate for lost time due to unusual stoppages. We test for … shortening close games where the home team is ahead, and lengthening close games where the home team is behind. They show no such …

This paper provides a study on conflicts of interest among college football coaches participating in the USA Today … individual coach ballots between 2005 and 2010, we find that coaches distort their rankings to reflect their own team … favorably and boost their own team's ranking more than two full positions. Coaches also rank teams they defeated more favorably …

While outsourcing of production from the U.S. to Mexico has been hailed in Mexico as a valuable engine of growth …

Using detailed data from the Bundesliga, Germany's top soccer league, our analysis of how crowd pressure affects the … home team for those decisions that cannot be unam-biguously identified as erroneous but not for those decisions that can …. In particular, a referee exhibits a bias in favor of the home team with respect to more subjective decisions such as the …