multiple perspectives. Chapters address competitive balance and outcome uncertainty in different sports in a range of countries … outcome uncertainty motivates competitive balance and how sports fans actually view competitive balance. Key case studies and … the use of new data in the chapters makes this an interesting read for sports economics researchers and students looking …

Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial … influences attractiveness and marketability of the sports in question. After discussing fundamental issues, this contributions … reviews selected landmark cases in sports competition policy from an economic perspective. This includes the U.S. baseball …

Beginning with the seminal work in the field now known as sports economics (Rottenberg, 1956), concern over competitive … balance has been a recurring theme. While the vast majority of the focus has been on popular professional team sports, a few … studies have analyzed competitive balance in the individual sports of professional tennis (del Corral, 2009) and NASCAR (von …