Sports analytics—broadly defined as the pursuit of improvement in athletic performance
through the analysis of data—has expanded its footprint both in the professional sports …

We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and
losses by professional football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by …

Academic interest in the economics of professional team sports dates back as far as the mid-
1950s. Since then, many books and journal articles have been written on the subject. Much …

The typical gambler loses money but continues to gamble nonetheless. Why? Research
from orthodox and behavioral economics, psychology, sociology, and medicine has offered …

T HIS PAPER ANALYZES the economics of wagering markets, specifically markets in which
participants take a financial position on the outcome of a sporting event such as a horse race …

Most people who watch basketball believe in the" hot hand": Players who make a shot are
more likely to hit the next shot than players who miss a shot (ie, shots are positively …

An ordered probit regression model estimated using 10 years' data is used to forecast
English league football match results. As well as past match results data, the significance of …

Although researchers have documented many instances of crowd wisdom, it is important to
know whether some kinds of judgments may lead the crowd astray, whether crowds' …

This article examines the efficiency of the National Football League (NFL) betting market.
The standard ordinary least squares (OLS) regression methodology is replaced by a probit …

The efficiency of the fixed odds betting market for football in England is investigated. It is the
efficiency of how market participants utilize available information that is tested. A model of …