Throwing bottles in Cleveland

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Chapter 6 in Sports Economics Uncut, 2018, pp 84-101 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Sports fans take perceived injustices seriously, as the 2001 “Bottlegate†incident vividly illustrates. Cleveland Browns pelted the field with beer bottles after the outcome turned on a controversial use of video replay by the referee. Even without such violent reactions, fans, like citizens at large, frequently take an adversarial and even hostile view of officials. Chapter 6 examines the sources of hostility using cases like the 1985 World Series along with evidence from large systematic studies of factors weighing on officials in soccer, basketball, hockey, and football. It describes poor incentives and selection mechanisms for MLB umpires and NBA officials and the impact of video technology on improving policing. Players and coaches can strategically frustrate enforcement of new rules, as attempts to crackdown on bad behavior in the NBA and college basketball have shown.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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