Owner Objectives and Competitive Balance

Fort, Rodney; Quirk, J. P.

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“…Fort and Quirk (2004) find that, relative to a league of profit-maximizing owners, a league of winningpercentage-maximizing owners will have a greater demand for player talent and will spend more to acquire that talent. However, which of the two leagues will have greater competitive balance is indeterminant.…”

Section: Chapter 3 Sports Leagues Vs Their Own Member Teamsmentioning

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Antitrust Analysis of Sports Leagues

Pelnar

2007

SSRN Journal

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Section: Chapter 3 Sports Leagues Vs Their Own Member Teamsmentioning

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Antitrust Analysis of Sports Leagues

Pelnar

2007

SSRN Journal

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“…The need of some balance on the field is getting more discussed not only for soccer leagues (Grier & Tollison, 1994;Zimbalist, 2002;Fort & Maxcy, 2003;Fort & Quirk, 2004;Michie & Oughton, 2004;Goossens, 2005;Groot 2007;Lee, 2010), but also for other team sports (Kesenne, 2000;Richardson, 2000;Schmidt & Berri, 2001;Humphreys, 2002;Utt & Fort, 2002;DuBois & Heyndels, 2007;Lenten, 2013). A few teams should not be too strong.…”

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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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“…7 To illustrate the idea of multisided markets, consider a professional soccer 3 club playing in, for instance, the German premier league (Bundesliga). In sports economics, a long tradition of reasoning views professional sports clubs (like premier league soccer clubs) as resembling profit-maximizing firms (individual clubs) or industries (leagues) (Rottenberg 1956;Hoehn & Szymanski 1999;Fort & Quirk 2004) rather than non-profit (serving the public good) sports clubs (as they often prefer to view themselves; somewhat supported e.g. by Madden 2008).…”

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Sports Business and Multisided Markets: Towards a New Analytical Framework?

Budzinski

Satzer

2011

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractDespite still being younger than a decade, the theory of multisided markets has offered numerous valuable insights for the analysis of industries in which a supplier serves two distinct customer groups that are indirectly interrelated through externalities. Examples include payment systems, matching agencies, commercial media, and software platforms. However, professional sports markets have largely been neglected so far in this kind of research although they possess the characteristics of multisided markets. This conceptual paper contributes to filling this gap by describing the platform elements of professional suppliers of sports events and conceptually outlining issues 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 such different customer groups like attendees, broadcasters, sponsors, etc., including their welfare and antitrust implications, design decisions of sports associations in order to promote positive feedback loops among the customer groups as well as management strategies to reinforce positive externalities among customer groups and alleviate negative ones.

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Owner Objectives and Competitive Balance

Cited by 83 publications

References 11 publications

Antitrust Analysis of Sports Leagues

Antitrust Analysis of Sports Leagues

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

Sports Business and Multisided Markets: Towards a New Analytical Framework?

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