Analyzing strategies in tournaments can be difficult to analyze given data limitations. We analyze golfers' risk taking strategies with a unique data-set from ten seasons of professional golf tournaments and present three major findings. First, as the value of taking on a risk rises, golfers...

NASCAR's monetary reward structure uses a linear payout for races, with a non-linear payout for the season long tournament. We suggest that the season long non-linear payout is magnified by taking into consideration the value of sponsorship time on camera and sponsor mentions during a race on...