Oberhofer, Harald; Philippovich, Tassilo; Winner, Hannes - 2009
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 …, focusing on the outcome of the game (i.e., win, draw or defeat) as a measure of the overall success of a football team we …