Measuring Competitive Balance in Professional Team Sports Using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index

By P. Owen, Michael Ryan, Clayton R. Weatherston. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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• How often does the best team win? A unified approach to understanding randomness in North American sport (2017, background): “This figure reveals that the highest uncertainty with respect to team strength occurs in the NBA, followed in order by the NFL, NHL and MLB. Even when accounting for the larger scale in outcomes, the NBA still stands out as far as increased between-week uncertainty. There are a few possible explanat”