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Analysing determinants of match attendance in the European Rugby Cup

Hogan, Vincent; Massey, Patrick; Massey, Shane - 2012

(competitive balance) and the quality of play. Unlike soccer, where the Champions League is dominated by teams from larger …

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Competitive balance and match attendance in European rugby union leagues

Hogan, Vincent; Massey, Patrick; Massey, Shane - 2012

The paper analyses the impact of the relatively belated move to professionalism in Rugby Union. We use data on match attendance for 3,667 fixtures in European club Rugby over 15 seasons to estimate the effect of competitive balance on attendance. We find that (short- and medium-term) competitive...

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Analysing match attendance in the European Rugby Cup

Hogan, Vincent; Massey, Patrick; Massey, Shane - 2014

Using data from 1,226 matches played over 18 seasons, we analyse match attendances in the group stages of the European Rugby Cup (ERC). We find that short-run (match) uncertainty had little effect on attendances. This finding is significant as the ERC has been replaced by a new competition which...

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Competitive balance : results of two natural experiments from Rugby Union ; [paper presented to the 6th Annual Conference of the European Sports Economics Association, University o...

Hogan, Vincent; Massey, Patrick; Massey, Shane - 2014

. The second involves French rugby and soccer as the French soccer league is generally recognised as having a more even … distribution of revenue and greater competitive balance than other major European soccer leagues. We find short- and long …-run competitive balance is higher in the Premiership, than in the Top 14, while French soccer appears more evenly balanced than rugby …

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When should you sack the manger? : Results from a simple model applied to the English premiership

Hope, Chris W. (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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How close to the trapdoor? : Measuring the vulnerability of managers in the English premiership

Hope, Chris W. (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Managerial beliefs and firm performance : field evidence from professional elite soccer

Boto-García, David; Bucciol, Alessandro; Zarri, Luca - 2020

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The wisdom of no crowds: the reaction of betting markets to lockdown soccer games

Hegarty, Tadgh; Whelan, Karl - 2022

Covid-19 pandemic led to European soccer matches being played without spectators. We show that betting markets adjusted … accurate over a large sample of soccer matches subsequently played without spectators even though the earliest games appeared …

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Long-term competitive balance under UEFA financial fair play regulations

Sass, Markus - 2012

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Risk aversion and favorite-longshot bias in a competitive fixed-odds betting market

Whelan, Karl - 2022

Research on sports betting markets has generally found a favorite-longshot bias, the empirical pattern for loss rates for bets on longshots to be higher than for favorites, which implies the odds do not reflect the underlying probabilities. The existing literature focuses largely on pari-mutuel...

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