Outcome uncertainty and attendance demand in sport: the case of English soccer

By David Forrest, Rob Simmons. 2002

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

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A tale of two audiences: Spectators, television viewers and outcome uncertainty in Spanish football (2009, result): “closeness of a contest (Forrest and Simmons, 2002).”
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests (2003, background): “The implications of population density for revenue generation remain to be explored (but see Forrest et al (2002) on the spatial pattern of demand for English soccer).”
Broadcasting, Attendance and the Inefficiency of Cartels (2004, background): “Demand studies in association football have tended to focus on impacts of playing success of home team, market size, income and uncertainty of outcome (Dobson and Goddard, 2001; Garcia and Rodriguez, 2002).(3) The impact of outcome uncertainty is a significant issue in the present context because co”
On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis (2006, positive): “Most US studies have focused on Major League Baseball or American Football (e.g., Knowles, Sherony, & Haupert, 1992; Welki & Zlatoper, 1999), whereas the majority of UK studies have centered on football (e.g., Peel & Thomas, 1988; Baimbridge, Cameron, & Dawson, 1996; Forrest & Simmons, 2002).”
Stadium Attendance Demand Research: A Scoping Review (2021, background): “In three out of these 42 studies, the authors analyse data aggregated across several leagues (Dobson & Goddard, 1992; Forrest & Simmons, 2002; Forrest et al., 2005).”
Spectator Demand, Uncertainty of Results, and Public Interest (2018, methodology): “…have measured outcome uncertainty by the probability of the home team winning (Benz, Brandes, & Franck, 2009; Buraimo & Simmons, 2008; Coates & Humphreys, 2012; Czarnitzki & Stadtmann, 2002; Forrest & Simmons, 2002; Lemke, Leonard, & Tlhokwane, 2010; Tainsky, Xu, & Zhou, 2014, among others).”
The 12th man?: refereeing bias in English and German soccer (2010, background): “In the sample period that was employed by Dawson et al. (2007), there is evidence that it was not fully so (Forrest and Simmons, 2002) and a statistical model may indeed have been a more appropriate basis for deriving win probabilities.”
New Issues in Attendance Demand (2006, background): “Forrest and Simmons (2002) modelled the betting market in the Football League for the 1997/98 season and found evidence of bias.”
Do Sports Fans Really Value Uncertainty of Outcome?Evidence from the English Premier League (2008, neutral): “Similarly, Forrest and Simmons (2002) defined uncertainty of outcome as “a situation where a given contest within a league structure has a degree of unpredictability about the result” (p. 229).”
Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports (2004, positive): “There is a small empirical literature testing the validity of this hypothesis, see for example Schmidt and Berri (2001) and Forrest and Simmons (2002).”
The Determinants of Football Match Attendance Revisited (2002, methodology): “Articles by Heilmann and Wendling (1976); Ferguson, Stewart, Jones, and Le Dressay (1991); Salant (1992); Marburger (1997); and Boyd and Boyd (1998) are among those that try, in the context of a profit maximizing behavior for the professional teams, as assumed in El Hodiri and Quirk (1971), to give ”