Location and Survival in the National Hockey League

Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer

“…Most previous studies have concentrated on competitive balance in the ®rst two senses. Thus Jennett (1984), Peel and Thomas (1988), Cairns (1988), Jones and Ferguson (1988) and Kuypers (1997) concentrate on the match uncertainty. They hypothesise that uncertain matches will attract greater support and focus on ®nding suitable proxies for match uncertainty.…”

Antitrust Analysis of Sports Leagues

“…However, not all expansion decisions are driven by a desire to make it more difficult for a rival to enter. Jones and Ferguson (1988) examine the NHL's expansion and find that, according to their model, the most profitable cities to add a NHL franchise were Winnipeg, Quebec City, Edmonton, and Calgary. The NHL did, in fact, expand to the first three cities by absorbing the WHA franchises located in those cities and allowed the NHL's Atlanta franchise to relocate to Calgary.…”

“…2001). 69 Jones and Ferguson (1988 Jones and Ferguson (1988) and Cocco and Jones (1997) examine franchise profitability, viability, and relocation of NHL teams, particularly the Canadianbased teams. Jones and Ferguson analyzed data from the 1977-78 season and concluded that several Canadian cities were more attractive expansion opportunities for the NHL than any potential U.S. cities -and more attractive than at least eight cities with current NHL teams.…”

“…" (p. 1537) In 1983, the NHL rejected the proposed relocation of the St. Louis team to Saskatoon. Saskatoon was one of the three Canadian cities without an NHL franchise which Jones and Ferguson (1988) had estimated was preferable to all potential, and at least eight existing, U.S. locations. Why then did the NHL reject the relocation?…”

NHL expansion and fan allegiance: a mathematical modelling study

“…Model parameters are defined by the location attributes that have been shown to affect team financial success [17,18]. The Basic Reproductive Ratio (R 0 ), the number of new fans produced by one fan that is introduced into a totally susceptible population, is determined.…”