America is in the midst of a “fantasy sports revolution” that is changing the way sports fans interact with one another …. With more than 30 million Americans playing fantasy sports, today’s sports fans spend as much time predicting the ….S. law regulates the emerging fantasy sports industry. Part I of this article provides an overview of the history of fantasy …

This paper outlines how the theory of contests is applied to professional team sports leagues. In the first part, we … applications of contest theory in sports. In particular, we will show how the Tullock framework is applied to models of team sports … leagues. For this purpose, we will first explain the value creation process in team sports leagues and show how club revenues …

. However, professional sports markets have largely been neglected so far in this kind of research although they possess the … of sports events and outlining problems where an application of this theoretical framework is likely to provide valuable … insights and to add to the existing knowledge. Among these problems are integrative pricing strategies of sports clubs towards …

In a complete information auction, two integrated broadcasters bid for exclusive TV-rights to a sports league (e.g. the … expenditures, possibly enhancing league quality and the resulting sports channel (e.g. Sky Sports); also the right’s winner either … never happens. Ofcom’s suggested wholesale regulation of Sky Sports typically reduces league rights income, quality and …

Beginning with the seminal work in the field now known as sports economics (Rottenberg, 1956), concern over competitive … balance has been a recurring theme. While the vast majority of the focus has been on popular professional team sports, a few … studies have analyzed competitive balance in the individual sports of professional tennis (del Corral, 2009) and NASCAR (von …

Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both amateur and professional sports and have taken … principle of sports. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature overview of the individual’s incentive to dope, the … environment. We stress that in order to ensure clean sports and fair competition, more sophisticated measurement methods have to …

Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both amateur and professional sports and have taken … sports. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature overview of the individual drivers to dope, the concomitant … that in order to ensure clean sports and fair competition, more sophisticated measurement methods have to be evolved and …