This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue … and conceded goals ('goal difference') as a measure of the overall success of a football team, we observe a significant … that a team's performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue …

We analyse the effect of overconfidence in a model of team-production with effort complementarities. We show that … overconfident have a significantly positive effect on their team's success. …Wir betrachten den Effekt von Overconfidence mit Hilfe eines intuitiven Modells einer Team-Produktion mit …

That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options … bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and attract talented managers from other clubs. Indeed, most of the … literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …