Dawson, Peter; Morley, Bruce; Paton, David; Thomas, Dennis - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2008
The tradition of tossing a coin to decide who bats first in a cricket match introduces a randomly-assigned advantage to one team that is unique in sporting contests. In this paper we develop previous work on this issue by examining the impact of the toss on outcomes of day-night one day...