Spectator Demand, Uncertainty of Results, and Public Interest

By Adam Cox. 2018

138 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This article tests the impact of match outcome uncertainty on stadium attendance and television audiences of English Premier League football. The method accounts for different measures of outcome uncertainty, an issue identified as a potential source of discord between existing evidence. Results show that more certain matches are preferred by spectators at the stadium yet more uncertain matches are preferred on TV spectators. Thus, a change in revenue sharing polices aimed at promoting a more uncertain match may affect both TV and stadium demand in opposing directions.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Eliminating Supportive Crowds Reduces Referee Bias (2021, methodology): “Extending this analysis to international football, Dawson and Dobson (2010) identified the nationality of referees as another factor affecting their favouritism toward one team or another.”
• Stadium Attendance Demand Research: A Scoping Review (2021, background): “That is, while all 195 manuscripts in our database were, on average, cited about four times per year, the work of six author teams accumulated, on average, more than 15 citations per year (e.g., Garcı́a & Rodrı́guez, 2002; Forrest & Simmons, 2002; Cox, 2018; Coates et al., 2014; Pawlowski & Anders, ”