Teaching competition in professional sports leagues

Stefan Szymanski

No 647, IASE Conference Papers from International Association of Sports Economists

Abstract: In recent years there has been some dispute over the appropriate way to model decision-making in professional sports leagues. In particular, Szymanski and Kesenne (2004), argue that formulating the decision-making problem as a noncooperative game leads to radically different conclusions about the nature of competition in sports leagues. This paper describes a simulation model that van be used in a classroom to demonstrate how competition works in a noncooperative context. The supporting Excel spreadsheet used to conduct the game can be downloaded from the author’s personal webpage http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/s.szymanski.

JEL-codes: A20 D43 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2006-05
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