Oberhofer, Harald; Philippovich, Tassilo; Winner, Hannes - 2008
Abstract
This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports,
taking the example of football (soccer). We … venue. To test this hypothesis empiri-
cally, we investigate 6,389 away games from the German Football Pre-
mier League … between scored and conceded
goals (‘goal difierence’) as a measure of the overall success of a football
team, we observe a …