The shape of success: estimating contest success functions in sports

Thomas Peeters

No 1108, Working Papers from International Association of Sports Economists, North American Association of Sports Economists

Abstract: In this note I estimate and compare Tullock- and Hirshleifer-style contest success functions (CSFs) using data from the 4 major American sports leagues. I ?nd that Tullock CSFs based on relative efforts fit the data better than Hirshleifer CSFs based on absolute effort differences.

Keywords: contests; contest success functions; sports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 C72 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2011-03
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