Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won

By Tobias J. Moskowitz, L. J. Wertheim. 2011

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Diversity Thresholds: How Social Norms, Visibility, and Scrutiny Relate to Group Composition (2019, background): “…disproportionately oftenwith a batting average just above .300 (a salient threshold widely believed to separate good hitters from great ones [Moskowitz & Wertheim, 2011; Pope & Simonsohn, 2011]), and marathon runners finish races disproportionately often in the minute right before salient,…”
How often does the best team win? A unified approach to understanding randomness in North American sport (2017, background): “ness, varying home advantages between sports leagues, as shown in Moskowitz and Wertheim (2011), could also impact comparisons of relative team quality that are predicated on wins and losses.”
Reference-Dependent Preferences: Evidence from Marathon Runners (2014, background): “As a result, there is the concern that Pope and Simonsohn’s non-laboratory findings could be attributable to responses to financial incentives as opposed to internally-generated reference points (Moskowitz and Wertheim, 2011).”