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This paper examines the effect of incentives on the performance of darts players. We analyze four data sets comprising … higher incentives, but choke when the incentives are really high. Professional players similarly display better performance … under higher incentives, but appear less susceptible of choking. These results speak to a growing literature on the limits …

Economic agents react to incentives, and this holds true for professional football teams as well. Double round …-robin and single-match elimination represent two opposite competition regimes, with incentives varying distinctly between them … single-match elimination system. Utilizing data from Dutch professional football spanning from the 2004/05 season to the 2022 …

This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue …. To test this hypothesis empirically, we investigate 6,389 away games from the German Football Premier League ('Erste … and conceded goals ('goal difference') as a measure of the overall success of a football team, we observe a significant …