Measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic have provided a unique dataset that can be
analysed to test the influence of spectators on match results. Strict measures were …

Blowouts in sports involve large margins of victory or loss between teams and have long
been perceived as influencing subsequent performances by athletes, coaches, fans, and …

Background Though once considered an integral part of professional hockey, fighting
carries significant health risks to players. Fighting has remained legal in the National Hockey …

Using data from the National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament, I
examine the impact of travel on team production in a setting where one team is …

We investigate changes in effort investment of employees who still fulfill a contract with their
current employer but already signed a follow‐up contract with a new employer (employer‐to …

In this paper, we investigated the influence of competition with a former employer on
employees' performance by examining how athletes in team sports play against their former …

This study investigates the factors that determine winning in men's professional tennis.
Using 27,388 tennis matches played on the men's singles ATP World Tour between 2000 …

There is an established tradition in soccer society, for both soccer fans and club managers to
value forwards more than defensive players. However, the soccer rules imply an equally …

Previous research has adapted the use of economic production functions to estimate the
scoring production of teams in professional sports. Most of these studies have focused on …

Nontraditional scheduling in the National Football League (NFL) has created variation in the
rest/preparation time among opponents. Using data from the 2011 to 2015 NFL seasons …