Pitfalls to Measuring Competitive Balance With Gini Coefficients

By J. Utt, R. Fort. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• How often does the best team win? A unified approach to understanding randomness in North American sport (2017, background): “Unsurprisingly, unbalanced scheduling and interconference play can lead to imprecise competitive balance metrics derived from winning percentages [Utt and Fort (2002)].”
• Measuring Competitive Balance in Professional Team Sports Using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (2007, background): “To formalize this, we consider the ‘most unequal distribution’ (Horowitz 1997, Fort and Quirk 1997, Utt and Fort 2002 ) in which one team wins all its games, the second team wins all except its game(s) against the first team, and so on down to the most inept team, which wins none of its games.”