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 …

Comparison was made of home advantage in 157 national domestic soccer leagues
throughout the world for six seasons between 2006 and 2012, a total of 169,752 games …

Most research into home advantage is based on men's sports. This article analyses home
advantage in the women's domestic football leagues of Europe and makes a comparison …

Appropriate measurement of competitive balance is central to the economic analysis of
professional sports leagues. We examine the distributional properties of the ratio of standard …

Method Home and away final league tables were obtained from the websites (www.
betexplorer. com and www. eurobasket. com). The inclusion of the most recent three …

The regulation of on-field competition by officials is an important aspect of the management
of sport. Increasingly, sports are providing technological support for officials to aid their …

The purpose of this study was to quantify the home advantage in both men's and women's
First and Second Division water polo leagues, to compare the results obtained according to …

This paper analyses referee home bias with data from the First Division of the Spanish
Football League between the 2002/03 and 2009/10 seasons. The aim is to assess the …

What has come to be called Rottenberg׳ s (1956)“Invariance Principle” states that the same
talent allocation would result in a profit-maximizing league with or without interventions often …

The ratio of the actual standard deviation (ASD) to the idealized standard deviation of win
percentages (RSD) is the conventional measure of competitive balance (CB). RSD is …