Reading Material

Discussion in 'Statistics and Analysis' started by microbrew, Oct 1, 2003.

  1. microbrew

    microbrew New Member

    Jun 29, 2002
    NJ
    Good intro article, covering players' market and competitive balance:http://www.iesbs.com/pdf/sports_economics.pdf In particular, section 3.5 mentions MLS and has a brief history of single entity ownership.

    "The Sport League's Dilemma: Competitive Balance versus Incentives to Win by Frederic Palomino and Luca Rigotti", which concludes that "Under demand maximization, a performance-based reward scheme (used by European sport leagues) may be optimal. Under joint profit maximization, full revenue sharing (used by many US leagues) is always optimal."http://repositories.cdlib.org/iber/econ/E00-292/

    A thread on points for "3 points for win, 1 for draw, who thought of this?" https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20184 and a paper analyzing it: "Do the ‘three-point victory’ and ‘golden goal’ rules make soccer more exciting? A theoretical analysis of a simple game" by Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo of Columbia Business school. Paper at http://www.columbia.edu/~jc2095/PDFpapers/wp-foot.pdf

    This paper, "It's Fourth Down and What Does the Bellman Equation Say? A Dynamic-Programming Analysis of Football Strategy" by David Romer, was in the news a few months ago. It looks at American football, but touches upon many thing applicable to sports in general. http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/dro...rs/nber9024.pdf

    "Skill, Strategy, and Passion: an Empirical Analysis of Soccer" at http://ideas.repec.org/p/ecm/wc2000/1822.html
     

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