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Outcome Uncertainty in Sporting Events: Winning, Losing and Competitive Balance
Cheltenham :
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020.
Under the general editorship: P. Rodríguez, S. Kessene, B. Humphreys
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.
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Gasparetto T. M., Barajas A., , in: Outcome Uncertainty in Sporting Events: Winning, Losing and Competitive Balance.: Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. Ch. 7 P. 94–113.
Competitive balance is one of the central topics in sports economics. Seminal papers indicate that higher levels of competitiveness would drive interest of fans, boosting broadcast and tickets demand, and consequently increasing revenues for clubs and leagues. A broad literature is found inspecting competitive balance in professional football leagues, but no previous works have examined ...
Added: July 3, 2020
Sánchez L. C., Barajas A., Sánchez-Fernández P., , in: Outcome Uncertainty in Sporting Events: Winning, Losing and Competitive Balance.: Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. Ch. 8 P. 114–134.
The influence of market size, purchasing power or sport success in sport pricing policies has been studied. However, the influence of competitive balance and clubs’ ownership is still under-investigated. This chapter covers this gap and studies the effect of both of these on the price of the season tickets for teams of the four main ...
Added: July 3, 2020
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English
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