“…As the origins of the concept of competitive balance are based on North American baseball (Rottenberg, 1956), substantial research focusing on the CB has been done on sports leagues in North America (Lenton, 2015;Maxcy & Mondello, 2006;Mills & Fort, 2014;Price & Sen, 2003;Salaga & Fort, 2017;Zimbalist, 2002). Following the proliferation of the researchers analysing sports economics since 1950, CB has been analysed in professional football leagues in Europe (Curran et al, 2009;Pawlowski et al, 2010;Ramchandani et al, 2018), a few papers on sport leagues in Asia (Lee et al, 2016;Tainsky et al, 2017), in other sports such as the rugby union (Williams, 2012), Formula One (Judde et al, 2013;Mastromarco & Runkel, 2009;Schreyer & Torgler, 2018), and cricket (Bhattacharya & Smyth, 2003;Hynds & Smith, 1994;Lenten, 2008). However, most of the research on the ACB strand of research has been conducted with the "big 5" European football leagues (England, Germany, Spain, Italy and France) as their subject and Ramchandani (2012) identifies a lack of literature on ACB in other sports.…”