“Competitive Balance in Sports Leagues: An Introduction”
By R. Fort, Joel G. Maxcy. 2003
292 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
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In Nature and Landscape Conservation
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- 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): “These types of studies belong to what Fort and Maxcy (2003) describe as analysis of competitive balance (ACB).”
- Multi-robot coalition formation (2006, background): “Although balance is a very recent concept in multi-robot coalition formation (Vig and Adams, 2005), balance between teams has been previously studied in sports economics (Fort and Maxcy, 2003) for the purpose of professional league formation.”
- Rival conceptions of rivalry: why some competitions mean more than others (2015, unknown): “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).”