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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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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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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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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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A Contest Model of a Professional Sports League with Two-Sided Markets

Dietl, Helmut; Duschl, Tobias; Franck, Egon; Lang, Markus - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2009

This paper develops a model of a professional sports league with network externalities by integrating the theory of two-sided markets into a contest model. In professional team sports, the competition of the clubs functions as a platform that enables sponsors to interact with fans. In these...

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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 …

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The Sugar Daddy's Game: How Wealthy Investors Change Competition in Professional Team Sports

Grossmann, Martin; Lang, Markus; Theiler, Philipp - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010

Professional sports leagues have witnessed the appearance of so-called "sugar daddies" - people who invest enormous amounts of money into clubs and become their owners. This paper presents a contest model of a professional sports league that incorporates this phenomenon. We analyze how the...

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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 …

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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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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