between competitive balance and regular season average attendance in Major League Baseball (MLB) using the actual to idealized … standard deviation ratio exits. This paper examines the effect that competitive balance has on MLB attendance between the … a significant inverse relationship between the ratio, games behind, and regular season average attendance. This confirms …

professional soccer league, is the focus of examination through a seasonal attendance model which seeks to test the importance of … region and competitive balance in determining demand for attendance. The results of this model indicate that fans are …

We examine the relationship between game day attendance, uncertainty of outcome, and team and facility quality in the … National Football League. Based on results from a reduced form model of game day attendance at 5,495 regular season NFL games … from the 1985-2008 seasons, we find weak evidence that attendance increases when fans expect the home team to win by a …

externality in professional baseball using data from each game of the 1996 MLB season. Both absolute and relative quality are … important determinants of the demand for sports contests. In fact, fans prefer a game in which two high quality teams are …

attendance demand is a bell-shaped function of match balance that is maximized if teams of the same quality play against each … home teams are slight favorites, a switch of the corresponding away teams would decrease the total attendance by several …