-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. …

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 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 …

After controlling for a number of plausible influences on matchday attendance in the English Premier League, and with … outcome is associated with reduced gate attendance. The conventional uncertainty of outcome hypothesis proposes precisely the …

focuses on the relationships between attendance and different sets of variables: those that relate to the socio …, firstly, that the quality of the squad influences attendance through its performance on the pitch, secondly, that the level of … attendance is explained by the population of the province in which the club is based, and by both the current and historical …

professional soccer league, is the focus of examination through a seasonal attendance model which seeks to test the importance of … region and competitive balance in determining demand for attendance. The results of this model indicate that fans are …

We examine the relationship between game day attendance, uncertainty of outcome, and team and facility quality in the … National Football League. Based on results from a reduced form model of game day attendance at 5,495 regular season NFL games … from the 1985-2008 seasons, we find weak evidence that attendance increases when fans expect the home team to win by a …