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Exploring the Market of Soccer Player Registrations : An Empirical Analysis of the Difference between Transfer Fees and Estimated Players’ Inherent Value

Campa, Domenico - 2021

This paper examines the determinants of the difference between soccer player registration transfer fees and the estimated inherent value of transferred players. The results show that this difference increases for players competing in the same league as that of the acquiring team, players...

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Artificial pitches and unfair home advantage in professional football

Ours, Jan C. van - 2017

In the Netherlands, in the top tier of professional football some teams play their home matches on an artificial pitch …

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Common international trends in football stadium attendance

Ours, Jan C. van - 2020

This paper examines long-term developments in stadium attendance in professional football in the Netherlands. As in … football matches. …

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Seasonal home advantage in English professional football : 1973-2018

Peeters, Thomas; Ours, Jan C. van - 2020

We analyze 45 years of data from English professional football focusing on the determinants of home advantage. We …

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Artificial Pitches and Unfair Home Advantage in Professional Football

van Ours, Jan - 2017

In the Netherlands, in the top tier of professional football some teams play their home matches on an artificial pitch …

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Performance, Diversity and National Identity Evidence from Association Football

Tovar, Jorge - 2018

performance. Detailed worker-level data from a highly globalized industry, association football, shows a non-linear relationship …

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Injury risk, concussions, race, and pay in the NFL

Keefer, Quinn A. W.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2023

American professional football. One is to examine an increasingly important specific injury, concussions, and compare its … subsequent economic effects to those of other types of football injuries. Our other contribution is to study the role of race in … demographics, playing time, and performance, we find that whether a player continues to play NFL football from year to year is …

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The superstar effect in Tennis : a within-match analysis

Creutzburg, Carsten - 2024

This study is the first to investigate the superstar effect on professional men's tennis players' situational performance, employing novel serve and return ratings. We innovate by examining the impact of superstars on the performance of both higher-ranked (HR) and lower-ranked (LR) players. We...

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The Effectiveness of College Football Recruiting Ratings in Predicting Team Success : A Longitudinal Study

Mankin, Jeffrey A. - 2019

American college football is a multibillion-dollar industry for the 130 schools that play at the highest level. College … football is unique in that it must recruit student athletes, unlike high school or pro football. An entire multimillion …

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Underestimating randomness: Outcome bias in betting exchange markets

Merz, Oliver; Flepp, Raphael; Franck, Egon - 2021

This paper examines whether the outcome bias harms price efficiency in betting exchange markets. In soccer, the match outcome is an unreliable performance measure, as it underestimates the high level of randomness involved in the sport. If bettors overestimate the importance of past match...

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