Walter C. Neale 50 Years After: Beyond Competitive Balance, the League Standing Effect Tested With French Football Data

W. Andreff () and N. Scelles
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W. Andreff: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
N. Scelles: University of Stirling

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Abstract: In 1964, Neale suggested, in addition to competitive balance, a league standing effect that was never tested per se with empirical data. A model that explains fan attendance in the French football Ligue 1 over 2008-2011 is presented. It takes on-board point difference with the closest competitor chasing a different sporting stake, and positive and negative changes regarding the different sporting stakes. Econometric testing exhibits a negative impact of point difference (i.e., a positive impact of the possibilities of changes), a positive impact of positive changes, and no significant impact of negative changes.

Keywords: Neale; competitive blanace; league standing effect; sporting stakes; French football (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12
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Published in Journal of Sports Economics, 2015, 16 (8), pp.819-834. ⟨10.1177/1527002514556621⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/1527002514556621

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