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In Search of an Alternative Explanation of Stacking in Baseball: the Uncertainty Hypothsis.

Lavoie, M. - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 1992

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Incentive Contracts in Team Sports - Theory and Practice

Heubeck, Tina; Scheuer, Jochen - Berkeley Electronic Press

contrast to other industries it is easy to observe the employees’ effort in team sports. Therefore, it would be desirable to … amongst team members is essential in team sports. …

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Give Freakonomics a Chance

Ayres, Ian - In: The Economists' Voice 4 (2007) 5, pp. 1-1

An NBA referee has now pleaded guilty, and forensic economists have found signs of bias and cheating in the NBA, college basketball and sumo wresting. Ian Ayres argues that the NBA should release referee data to allow forensic economists to look for statistical evidence of malfeasance, before...

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Demand for Football and Intra-Match Winning Probability: an Essay on the Glorious Uncertainty of Sports.

Falter, J.-M.; Perignon, C. - Geneva School of Economics and Management, Université … - 2000

The aims of this study are (i) to identify the main determinants of the demand for French Premiere Division football …

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Pay, Performance, and Competitive Balance in the National Hockey League

Richardson, David H. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 26 (2000) 4, pp. 393-417

professional sports league. Data on players' salaries reveal substantial growth in average salary and a steady increase in the …

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Attendance Patterns at Victorian and South Australian Football Games.

Fuller, P.; Steward, M. - School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University - 1993

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Doping

UNESCO, UNESCO - eSocialSciences - 2008

You may have heard the word doping used in sporting circles and in the media. While some of what you know about doping might be true, it is important to know the facts.

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Within-series momentum in hockey: No returns for running up the score

Kniffin, Kevin M.; Mihalek, Vince - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 3, pp. 400-402

Drawing on data from 916 Division 1 men’s college hockey games played during a recent six-year period in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), we find evidence that positive momentum within 458 two-game series does not exist when controlling for team quality. We find that neither...

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Baseball

Paul, Rodney J.; Weinbach, Andrew P. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 14 (2013) 2, pp. 115-132

Due to the use of sports wagering market data as a laboratory to test the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, sports bettors … market efficiency, the notion of the sports bettor as investor should be in doubt. Using betting volume data from online … sportsbooks, bettors are shown to substitute out of baseball betting into football betting when the season starts. The authors …

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Immediate Effects of On-The-Job Training and Its Intensity

Nutting, Andrew W. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 14 (2013) 3, pp. 303-320

National Basketball Association home teams produce more defense and more wins the more consecutive games they play at home, suggesting home games serve as on-the-job training for future games during the same homestand. Home teams produce less defense and fewer wins the more days off during a...

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