Cost Reduction, Competitive Balance, and the Scheduling of Back-to-Back Games in the NBA

The NBA league office states that the playing schedule is devised to ensure competitive balance while keeping an eye towards minimizing costs. This paper examines those claims. Three years of travel data were analyzed and the results imply that the use of back-to-back road games in the NBA schedule may assist with competitive balance and that back-to-back games indeed reduce team travel costs.

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Year of publication:	2008-08
Authors:	Kelly, Yvan J.
Institutions:	International Association of Sport Economists - IASE ; North American Association of Sports Economists - NAASE
Subject:	basketball \| team sports \| costs \| competitive balance

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 0810 14 pages
Classification:	L83 - Sports; Gambling; Recreation; Tourism
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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