While the determinants of Major League Baseball attendance have been thoroughly researched, the literature is … conspicuously incomplete in regard to the attendance effects of star players. Addressing two concerns in the research, this study … develops two measures of players’ star power and, analyzing within-season fluctuations in game attendance from 1969 …

This article tests for the effects of a change in competitive balance on attendance at Major League Baseball games … using game-level attendance data for the 2000-2002 seasons. Employing the difference between the winning percentages of the … balance on attendance are not symmetric, (b) the effects of a change in competitive balance increase as a team falls further …

This study explores the forecasting of Major League Baseball game ticket sales and identifies important attendance … lagged attendance forecast. My empirical results show high variation in team-specific prediction accuracy with respect to …

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 …

This study explores the forecasting of Major League Baseball game ticket sales and identifies important attendance … lagged attendance forecast. My empirical results show high variation in team-specific prediction accuracy with respect to …

both home attendance and owners' net income between 1920 and 1941. Team performance, home runs, number of Sundays a team … had home games, the installation of lighting, and radio broadcasts of games, all raised attendance while increases in the … unemployment rate had no effect on real net income. All the other variables that raised attendance also raised real net income. …