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 …

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

Research question: Although previous research has shown that there is an association
between financial strength and sporting outcome, whereby teams with larger budgeted …

In Moneyball, the assumption was made that the baseball labor market undervalues specific
player skills. This study investigates whether this is also the case for player effort in …

In recent years, the proportion of matches ending in a 0–0 draw or a 1–0 win has increased
in the five major European football leagues. This increase is most pronounced in the more …

An original data set built from all 32 National Football League (NFL) teams, covering 2000–
2009, is used to produce a production function for professional football. We use spending on …

A popular soccer myth states that teams affected by a sending-off perform better than they
would have performed without it. Based on economic theory, the authors analyze the course …

In 2011 UEFA, the governing body of European football, introduced the Financial Fair Play
Regulation (FFPR), consisting of a set of financial restraints to be met by clubs as a …

The effects of the three-point rule in the first league German soccer are tested empirically
and compared to games from the German cup competition. The inclusion of cup games …

In the mid-nineties FIFA decided to increase from two to three the number of points assigned
to the winning team of a soccer match played under traditional round-robin national leagues …