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Pre- and within-season attendance forecasting in Major League Baseball : a random forest approach

Mueller, Steffen Q. - 2018 - Version: June 2018

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Towards a sustainable financial model for professional tennis players

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Does attractiveness win? : on the gender-specific impact of attractiveness on athletic performance in tennis

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Is there a gender difference in the ability to deal with failures? : evidence from professional golf tournaments

Rosenqvist, Olof - 2016

Recent experimental evidence suggests that women in general are more discouraged than men by failures which potentially can explain why women, on average, are less likely than men to reach top positions in firms. This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence from the field on this...

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Is the NFL's Pro Bowl broken? : considering the players' perspective

Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, Philipp - 2021

This paper examines the growing trend of NFL players to forego participation in the league's yearly All-Star Game, the Pro Bowl. Viewership of the Pro Bowl has been substantially lower than the average game day in recent years, causing controversial discussions about the viability of the game...

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