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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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Forecasting the Professional Team Sporting Events: Evidence from Euro 2000 and 2004 Football Tournaments
HALICIOGLU, Ferda - EconWPA - 2005
This study aims at predicting the most likely winners of international football tournaments. To this end, this paper …-of-season points from domestic football leagues to measure the degree of competitive balance and to use it as a comparative indicator … between the contesting countries in international football tournaments. The seasonal CV values computed from over ten seasons …
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Salary Cap Regulation in Professional Team Sports
Dietl, Helmut; Franck, Egon; Lang, Markus; Rathke, Alexander - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008
aggregate salary payments. Taking into account the idiosyncrasies of European football, our paper further highlights the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015174
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Competitive Balance and Revenue Sharing in Sports Leagues with Utility-Maximizing Teams
Dietl, Helmut; Grossmann, Martin; Lang, Markus - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2009
This paper develops a contest model of a professional sports league in which clubs maximize a weighted sum of profits and wins (utility maximization). The model analyzes how more win-oriented behavior of certain clubs affects talent investments, competitive balance and club profits. Moreover, in...
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Limitations of the relative standard deviation of win percentages for measuring competitive balance in sports leagues
Owen, P. Dorian - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2009
The relative standard deviation of win percentages, the most widely used measure of within-season competitive balance, has an upper bound which is very sensitive to variation in the numbers of teams and games played. Taking into account this upper bound provides additional insight into...
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Competitive Balance Measures in Sports Leagues: The Effects of Variation in Season Length
Owen, P Dorian; King, Nicholas - National Centre for Econometric Research (NCER) - 2013
Appropriate measurement of competitive balance is a cornerstone of the economic analysis of professional sports leagues. We examine the distributional properties of the ratio of standard deviations (RSD) of points percentages, the most widely used measure of competitive balance in the sports...
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A Contest Model of a Professional Sports League with Two-Sided Markets
Dietl, Helmut; Duschl, Tobias; Franck, Egon; Lang, Markus - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 3, pp. 336-359
This paper develops a model of a professional sports league with network externalities by integrating the theory of two-sided markets into a two-stage contest model. In professional team sports, the competition of the clubs functions as a platform that enables sponsors to interact with fans. In...
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The extent to which unbalanced schedules cause distortions in sports league tables
Lenten, Liam J.A. - In: Economic Modelling 28 (2011) 1, pp. 451-458
The Australian Football League (AFL) has operated its fixture on the basis of an unbalanced schedule since the league …
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The (monetary) value of competitive balance for sport consumers: A stated preferences approach to European professional football
Pawlowski, Tim; Budzinski, Oliver - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2012
in European professional football. In order to find possible reasons for the gap between the UOH and (the lack of) its … three European professional football leagues. The results indicate that a tipping point/threshold value of CB exists and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957572
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Competitive Balance and Revenue Sharing in Sports Leagues with Utility-Maximizing Teams
Dietl, Helmut; Grossmann, Martin; Lang, Markus - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2009
This paper develops a contest model of a professional sports league in which clubs maximize a weighted sum of profits and wins (utility maximization). The model analyzes how more win-oriented behavior of certain clubs affects talent investments, competitive balance and club profits. Moreover, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739910