Mesure de la Competitive Balance dans les ligues de sports professionnels. Faut-il distinguer les ligues fermées des ligues avec promotion et relégation ?

Jean-Pascal Gayant and Nicolas Le Pape

Revue économique, 2015, vol. 66, issue 2, 427-448

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the ability of traditional indices of Competitive Balance to properly measure the attractiveness of professional sports leagues, differentiating Closed leagues and Promotion & Relegation leagues. Using an original device that allows to build hypothetical configurations of final rankings of clubs, we highlight the inability of traditional indices, and especially that of the Gini index, to account for the attractiveness of the different types of leagues. When adopting the approach based on the ?parallel? between decision under risk and measurement of inequalities (following Yaari [1987]), we propose a generalization of the Gini index that properly reflects the attractiveness of different types of leagues. Classification JEL : L83, D63, D81

JEL-codes: D63 D81 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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