The authors use data that are collected from the 2007 season to study attendance at Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB …, attendance is greater at games between better teams and games that the home team is more likely to win. …

Habit formation in sports game attendance is crucial for sports businesses. Teams with strong habitual attendance sell … more tickets and can command higher ticket prices compared with teams without habitual attendance, assuming all other … to form attendance habits. This paper revisits this issue using updated panel data, as there have been recent changes in …

This paper investigates the determinants of game-day attendance in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) from … consequently leads to higher attendance. Moreover, the results of the quantile regression show that these effects are especially … factors such as the quality of play and the Derby effect also significantly influence game-day attendance. Moreover, the …

Cactus League was proposed. We find that the Cubs increase attendance when they are the away team by about 37%. Thus, the …

-term losses in attendance but have not resulted in any long-term effects on attendance. While total attendance at MLB games … baseball attendance has dropped significantly since the 1994/95 strike. …

This study examines the importance of team success for attendance for Major League Baseball teams. Winning and … attendance go together for most baseball teams, but the direction of causation is not obvious. Winning could lead to greater … attendance as fans want to see a winner; an increase in attendance could lead to greater winning as teams have greater resources …