The fairness of long and short ABBA-sequences: A basketball free-throw field experiment

Christoph Bühren and Valon Kadriu

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2020, vol. 89, issue C

Abstract: Sequential tournaments in the ABBA-format are supposed to be fair. In a basketball free-throw field experiment with a low scoring rate, we find a second-mover advantage in short ABBA-games with four attempts each and no first- or second-mover advantage with ten attempts each. Analyzing the shot success of single moves, we argue that player B perceives a psychological advantage in short sequential competitions with a low expected success rate. In our long ABBA-sequence, insignificant second-mover advantages on shot level balance each other out on game level. We control for psychological traits of our subjects: Locus of control has a negative effect on performance in our experiment.

Keywords: Sequential tournaments; ABBA-sequence; First-mover advantage; Second-mover advantage; Psychological pressure; Psychological traits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2020.101562

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