The shape of success: Estimating contest success functions in sports

Thomas Peeters

Working Papers from University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics

Abstract: In this note I estimate and compare Tullock- and Hirshleifer-style contest success functions (CSFs) using data from the 4 major American sports leagues. I find that Tullock CSFs based on relative efforts fit the data better than Hirshleifer CSFs based on absolute effort differences.

Keywords: Contests; Contest success functions; Sports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 C72 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2010-09
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