Outcome uncertainty and the couch potato audience

By David Forrest, Rob Simmons, Babatunde Buraimo. 2005

258 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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How researchers see this paper

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Adam Cox
2. Babatunde Buraimo
3. Rob Simmons
4. Dominik Schreyer
5. Payam Ansari
6. David Forrest
7. David Sendor
8. Richard Verlander

In Gender Studies

1. Adam Cox
2. Babatunde Buraimo
3. Dominik Schreyer
4. Rob Simmons
5. Payam Ansari
6. David Forrest
7. David Sendor
8. Richard Verlander

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Adam Cox
2. Babatunde Buraimo
3. Dominik Schreyer
4. Rob Simmons
5. Payam Ansari
6. David Forrest
7. David Sendor
8. Richard Verlander

Citations in the corpus

• Issues in Sports Forecasting (2010, background): “Forrest et al. (2005a) use payrolls as a measure of team quality. ability to predict the margin of victory rather than the outright winner.”
• New Issues in Attendance Demand (2006, background): “broadcast match a facility fee which easily outweighs any loss in gate revenue (Forrest et al. (2004)).”
• Do Sports Fans Really Value Uncertainty of Outcome?Evidence from the English Premier League (2008, unknown): “A similar finding was observed by Alavy et al. (2006) and Forrest, Simmons, and Buraimo (2005) in studies of EPL television audience ratings.”
• Uncertainty of Outcome or Star Quality? Television Audience Demand for English Premier League Football (2015, methodology): “With respect to talent, broadcasters may have a preference for a contest in which the quality of talent is evenly distributed across the teams (Buraimo 2008; Forrest, Simmons, and Buraimo 2005).”
• Spectator Demand, Uncertainty of Results, and Public Interest (2018, methodology): “B) by Peel and Thomas (1992), Forrest and Simmons (2002), Buraimo and Simmons (2008), and Forrest et al. (2005).”
• A tale of two audiences: Spectators, television viewers and outcome uncertainty in Spanish football (2009, background): “In contrast, a study of gate attendance in the English Premier League by Forrest et al. (2004) found negligible impacts. Here, we denote four dummy variables: Public TV weekday, Public TV weekend, Subscription TV weekday and Subscription TV weekend to capture potentially different impacts of live TV”
• On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis (2006, unknown): “To our knowledge Forrest et al, (2005) provide the first empirical measures of the impact of uncertainty on TV viewers, comparing average viewership of games with different levels of ex ante uncertainty.”
• Stadium Attendance Demand Research: A Scoping Review (2021, background): “Third, we observed that the field has previously refrained from exploring disaggregated data, despite the early criticism from Forrest et al. (2005).”