Alternative Measures of Competitive Balance in Sports Leagues

By Brad R. Humphreys. 2002

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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Top Clubs’ Performance and the Competitive Situation in European Domestic Football Competitions (2010, background): “…ratio (CBR), which is a comprehensive measure that captures both CB components, can be easily derived as the ratio of the average SD of team points to the average SD of league points (Humphreys, 2002): CBR ¼ SDTPT SDLPN : ð5Þ The smaller the value of the CBR, the less balanced is the league.”
Competitive balance versus competitive intensity before a match: is one of these two concepts more relevant in explaining attendance? The case of the French football Ligue 1 over the period 2008–2011 (2013, background): “In professional sports economics, the concept of competitive balance is currently well documented (Kesenne, 2000; Szymanski, 2001, 2003; Humphreys, 2002; Zimbalist, 2002; Fort and Maxcy, 2003; Groot, 2008; Lee, 2010).”
Rival conceptions of rivalry: why some competitions mean more than others (2015, neutral): “Yet sports fans desire some degree of uncertainty regarding the outcome of the game (Humphreys, 2002; Zimbalist, 2002) and enjoy the eustress associated with competition (Wann, Melnick, Russell, & Pease, 2001).”
Novelty Effects of New Facilities on Attendance at Professional Sporting Events (2005, background): “Kahane and Shmanske (1997) modeled the novelty effect as constant over three years and found positive and significant effects of new stadiums on annual attendance in professional baseball during the period 1990–1992.”
Thinking about Competitive Balance (2003, background): “Allen Barra (2002b) has proposed two complementary competitive imbalance measures with regard to postseason play: the number of different franchises that make the Sanderson & Siegfried / COMPETITIVE BALANCE 259”
How often does the best team win? A unified approach to understanding randomness in North American sport (2017, background): “l of parity|in short, a narrower distribution of team quality|to maximize revenue (Crooker and Fenn, 2007). Related, the Hirndahl-Hirschman Index (Owen et al., 2007) and Competitive 3 Balance Ratio (Humphreys, 2002) are two metrics attempting to quantify the relative chances of success that teams ha”