Professional sports leagues have witnessed the appearance of so-called "sugar daddies" - people who invest enormous … amounts of money into clubs and become their owners. This paper presents a contest model of a professional sports league that …

Introduction – 1. The Competitive Balance in Professional Sports – 2. Alternative Measures of Competitive Balance – 3 …

This paper develops a contest model of a professional sports league in which clubs maximize a weighted sum of profits …

Appropriate measurement of competitive balance is a cornerstone of the economic analysis of professional sports leagues … used measure of competitive balance in the sports economics literature, in comparison with other standard … changes in season length. This has important implications for comparisons of competitive balance for different sports leagues …

This paper develops a contest model of a professional sports league in which clubs maximize a weighted sum of profits …

This paper develops a model of a professional sports league with network externalities by integrating the theory of two …-sided markets into a contest model. In professional team sports, the competition of the clubs functions as a platform that enables …

This paper analyzes the effects of a percentage-of-revenue salary cap in a team sports league with win-maximizing clubs …

Professional sports leagues have witnessed the appearance of so-called "sugar daddies" - people who invest enormous … amounts of money into clubs and become their owners. This paper presents a contest model of a professional sports league that …

This paper presents a novel approach to measuring competitiveness in sports leagues and tests the measure using …

This paper develops a model of a professional sports league with network externalities by integrating the theory of two …-sided markets into a two-stage contest model. In professional team sports, the competition of the clubs functions as a platform that …