This study examines how running performance (intensive runs, total distance covered) of
football teams in previous games impacts betting markets as it relates to expected win …

This article studies whether a recent victory impacts attendance at sports events. We apply a
regression discontinuity design to estimate the local average treatment effect of a win on the …

We study two important aspects of the home advantage for ice hockey. First we study team
and season level data to uncover systematic variation in the home advantage across teams …

After the “Moneyball” revolution in baseball, where advanced statistics and analytics were
used in player personnel and coaching decisions, other sports followed in its footsteps …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of fighting (in addition to other
variables) as it relates to attendance at minor league hockey games (ECHL) …

This thesis delved into the often-overlooked influence of biology on performance within the
realm of behavioural economics. It investigated the impact of testosterone on winning and …

Conventional wisdom in sports is that consistency is praiseworthy and that competitors
should seek momentum. A small standard deviation is the simplest measure of consistency …

The specific home/away sequencing of games has been a point of contention in the
championship series of professional sports leagues. This research analyses data from the …

Fighting has been part of the fabric of the NHL for nearly a century. Recent sharp declines in
the frequency of fighting and increased understanding of the long-term consequences of …

Serial correlation in performance has been analyzed extensively in finance and competition.
Momentum is an empirically established tendency for asset prices, but the existence of …