-based ranking of national soccer teams. The ranking has been plagued with paradoxes that incentivize teams to avoid playing friendly …. However, as discussed here, a given host's low ranking could decrease interest in the tournament, and likely result in a major …

Sports fans participate in supporting sports teams by demonstrating various attitudinal behaviors such as loyalty …, purchase intention, and stadium attendance. However, although the literature indicates that sports fans who are fanatics can … attitudinal behavior. This study utilized social identity theory to create a conceptual model which looked at how fan …

Sports analytics has benefited immensely from the growth and popularity of Machine Learning algorithms. Machine … Learning and Data Mining advances have enabled sports analysts to evaluate a player’s performance more effectively. A review of … enables sports fans and researchers to compare players playing a similar role in different teams. Second, the aggregated DPPI …

Ticket sales remain a significant source of revenue in professional team sports. However, season ticket revenue, as an … perspective, the extent to which different factors affect season ticket prices. Using three different professional German sports …-19 pandemic and differences in local market constellations of professional team sports clubs. …

Recently, the interest of the academic literature on sports statistics has increased enormously. In such a framework …

on an alternative and must therefore account for the differences that may exist between the ranking provided by the …

The present research aims to identify the main peculiar economics of professional team sports, reflect on whether they … conducted. First, the literature on the peculiar economics of professional team sports was reviewed and assessed by the authors … identification of 50 peculiar economics of professional team sports, of which 12 were assessed as the most distinctive and core to …

sports economics hypotheses is that fans prefer their team to win but with more match outcome uncertainty (MOU) rather than … acknowledged. We also show that Rottenberg's hypothesis is only one alternative generated by the standard economics of sports … based on the prospect theory. …

Perverse incentives are ubiquitous in different economic settings. In sports, they often take the form of temptation to …

acyclicity. As an illustration, we apply the method to rank wines assessed by different experts and compare the resulting ranking …