A tale of two audiences: Spectators, television viewers and outcome uncertainty in Spanish football

Buraimo, Babatunde; Simmons, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.jeconbus.2008.10.002

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“…Buraimo and Simmons (2008) modeled English Premier League attendance and concluded that attendance is minimized if home win probability derived from betting odds equals about 0.35. Buraimo and Simmons (2009) obtained a similar result for Spanish soccer. However, Benz et al (2009) found that for one model specification, German Bundesliga attendance (excluding season tickets) was maximized for home team win probability equal to 0.53.…”

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“…Some authors address this by taking the estimated attendance demand function and asking what would happen if the league structure changed (Dobson et al, 2001) or if teams were more evenly balanced (Forrest and Simmons, 2002;Buraimo and Simmons, 2009). However, if the estimated demand function is misspecified, this approach could still lead to incorrect conclusions.…”

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Does Match Uncertainty Increase Attendance? A Non-Regression Approach

Lahvička

2013

SSRN Journal

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The uncertainty of outcome hypothesis predicts that more balanced sports matches should attract higher attendances, but the empirical evidence is mixed at best. First, this article shows that the inconsistent findings in the literature could be explained by wrongly specified regressions. Second, a new approach to analyzing the effect of match uncertainty is proposed. Using data about nine seasons of the English Championship, the article shows that in a pair of matches where both home teams are slight favorites, a switch of the corresponding away teams would decrease the total attendance by several percent, while the opposite is true if both home teams are underdogs or strong favorites. These results suggest that attendance demand is a bell-shaped function of match balance that is maximized if teams of the same quality play against each other.

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Does Match Uncertainty Increase Attendance? A Non-Regression Approach

Lahvička

2013

SSRN Journal

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“…Despite the hypothesis that match attendance boosts excitement for television viewers, Buraimo (2008) finds that match attendance is negatively related to the televising of matches. Buraimo and Simmons (2009) also test the impact of outcome uncertainty on fan interest (i.e., consumer demand) for both fans in attendance and television audiences.…”

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Television Coverage and Outcome Uncertainty in Sports: Empirical Evidence from the NBA and WNBA. [Cobertura televisiva e incertidumbre en los resultados deportivos: Evidencia empírica en la NBA y la WNBA].

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Hilsman

Caudill

et al. 2014

Rev. int. cienc. deporte

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In an important paper, Price, Remer, & Stone (2012) introduce one manifestation of referee bias called "close" bias -the idea being that because close games are more valuable, referees might officiate to keep games close. Using 990 observations from the 2011-12 National Basketball Association (NBA) season and 442 observations from the 2010 and 2011 Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) seasons, we test conceptual models of the impact of television coverage on close bias. Our empirical results indicate that the absolute score differential is about two points less for nationally televised NBA games and about three points less for nationally televised WNBA games, even after accounting for differences in team strength. Our results confirm and extend the earlier findings of Price, Remer, & Stone (2012).Key words: close bias; television coverage, sports economics; referee bias; professional basketball. En un importante artículo, Price, Remer y Stone (2012) introducen una manifestación del sesgo arbitral llamada sesgo de "proximidad", el cual se refiere a que, dado que los partidos con marcadores ajustados son más valiosos, los árbitros podrían actuar intencionadamente para mantenerlos así. En nuestro estudio, y tras el análisis de 990 partidos de baloncesto de la temporada 2011-12 en la NBA, y de 442 partidos de las temporadas 2010 y 2011 en la WNBA, testamos varios modelos conceptuales sobre el impacto de la cobertura televisiva sobre el sesgo de proximidad. Los resultados indican que la diferencia absoluta en el marcador entre los equipos es alrededor de dos puntos menor para los partidos televisados a nivel nacional en la NBA, y sobre tres puntos menor para la WNBA, considerando las diferencias de potencial entre los equipos. De este modo, nuestros resultados confirman y extienden los hallazgos de Price, Remer y Stone (2012). A b s t r a c tPalabras clave: sesgo de proximidad; cobertura televisiva; economía del deporte; sesgo arbitral; baloncesto profesional. R e s u m e n

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“…It is the most frequently transmitted sport by the commercial sports TV channels (Jeanrenaud & Kesenne, 2006). From the statistics of these companies, we can deduce that these programs are between the most viewed ones (Buraimo & Simmons, 2009). …”

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Competitive Balance in the Austrain, Czech, Hungarian and Ukranian Soccer Leagues

Šíma¹,

Procházka²

2015

Auc Kinanthropologica

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This study deals with measuring and evaluating the static competitive balance in four chosen national soccer/football leagues. These are (in alphabetical order) the premier leagues in the Austrian, Czech, Hungarian, and Ukrainian soccer/football divisions.Static balance shows how teams in the league tables of each year differ from each another. It is determined by a calculation of determinant divergences in the percentages of winnings.The results of this work provide graphic illustrations of the development of the competitive balance in the aforementioned contests over the latest forty-two years. They identify the development trend of this phenomenon. Of the contests studied, it is the Czech premier league which used to show the highest static balance. However, nowadays, the Austrian and Hungarian leagues are more balanced in the short term. On the contrary, it is the Ukrainian league which is the least balanced. There is an apparent longterm decline of competition balance within all of the analyzed competitions. However, this decline varies a lot within the group.

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A tale of two audiences: Spectators, television viewers and outcome uncertainty in Spanish football

Cited by 124 publications

References 24 publications

Does Match Uncertainty Increase Attendance? A Non-Regression Approach

Does Match Uncertainty Increase Attendance? A Non-Regression Approach

Television Coverage and Outcome Uncertainty in Sports: Empirical Evidence from the NBA and WNBA. [Cobertura televisiva e incertidumbre en los resultados deportivos: Evidencia empírica en la NBA y la WNBA].

Competitive Balance in the Austrain, Czech, Hungarian and Ukranian Soccer Leagues

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