Outcome Uncertainty in Sporting Events

Edited by Plácido Rodríguez, Stefan Kesenne and Brad Humphreys

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Abstract: This book examines competitive balance and outcome uncertainty from multiple perspectives. Chapters address the topic in different sports in a range of countries, to help to understand its significance. It provides readers with important new insights into previously unexplored dimensions as well as a rich context for better understanding why fans, teams, and leagues value competitive balance. The book challenges readers to think about the topic in a broad and rigorous way, and in some cases to question widely held beliefs about how outcome uncertainty motivates competitive balance, and how sports fans actually view competitive balance.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
ISBN: 9781839102165
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Measuring competitive balance in Formula One racing , pp 5-26

Oliver Budzinski and Arne Feddersen

Ch 2 Professional tennis in the twenty-first century: Hawk-Eye on competitive balance , pp 27-43

Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez and Julio del Corral

Ch 3 When teammates are a drag: the effect of Spingate on the benefit of NASCAR drivers having teammates , pp 44-50

Stephen Jenkins and E. Frank Stephenson

Ch 4 Game, set, match and loss aversion in tennis , pp 51-62

Mikala Lowrance, Jacob Miller and Joshua Price

Ch 5 Deferred compensation when monitoring is (nearly) costless: evidence from professional football , pp 63-74

Bernd Frick and Hannes Winner

Ch 6 A highly disaggregated look at competitive balance , pp 75-93

James Reade

Ch 7 The competitiveness of football at the national-team level , pp 94-113

Thadeu Gasparetto and Angel Barajas

Ch 8 The price of football depends on the owner of the ball and the unbalance of the league , pp 114-134

Luis Carlos Sánchez, Angel Barajas and Patricio Sánchez-Fernández

Ch 9 Do football spectators like dynasties? Long-term uncertainty of outcome and stadium attendance , pp 135-140

Stefan Kesenne

Ch 10 Empirical analysis of match outcome uncertainty on soccer attendance: evidence from South Africa , pp 141-161

Thabo J. Gopane and Khumo T. Mokgatle

Ch 11 Outcome uncertainty, home-win preference, and econometric identification of the game uncertainty–attendance relationship , pp 162-172

Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys

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