The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on professional sports, notably, forcing the
National Hockey League to hold its 2020 playoffs in empty arenas. This provided an …

Recent years have seen significant attention awarded to possession regains in football. This
case study examines possession regain patterns of an elite English Premier League team …

Using game-level data, this study examines what impact the mid-season winter break in
football fixtures has on technical performance across European football leagues. Thirty-eight …

Overall attendance at bowl games has steadily decreased since 2010, meaning that
institutions are often left with tickets they cannot sell. Thus, the purpose of this study was to …

Previous studies have illustrated human misperceptions of randomness and resultant
suboptimal decision-making with reference to the 'hot hand'or momentum effect in sport, the …

An attendance model is specified for the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), the top level of
junior hockey in Canada with some teams located in the United States. The natural log of …

Market inefficiencies, known as Moneyball effect, have been recently documented in
different sports and their scope largely remains an empirical question. This article focuses …

The paper investigates home advantages in skeleton. Our study broadens home advantage
literature by providing models and estimation strategy applicable to other individual sports …

Background: The current study explored the relationship between fighting behavior and
passage of time, across games and seasons, in an attempt to assess if violent behavior in …

We use a simple machine learning model, logistically-weighted regularized linear least
squares regression, in order to predict baseball, basketball, football, and hockey games. We …