Moments of Competitive Balance in Major League Soccer

被引：2

作者：

Sung, Hojun ^{[1
,2
]}

Mills, Brian M. ^{[3
]}

Lee, Younghoon ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Incheon Natl Univ, Div Hlth & Kinesiol, 28-216,119 Acad Ro, Incheon 22012, South Korea

[2] Incheon Natl Univ, Sport Sci Inst, Incheon, South Korea

[3] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Kinesiol & Hlth Educ, Austin, TX 78712 USA

[4] Sogang Univ, Sch Econ, Dept Econ, 35 Baekbeom Ro, Seoul 04107, South Korea

来源：

JOURNAL OF SPORTS ECONOMICS | 2022年 / 23卷 / 03期

关键词：

competitive balance; bias-corrected estimator; major league soccer; designated player rule; STRUCTURAL-CHANGE; TEAM SPORTS; PLAYERS; ATTENDANCE; DEMAND; IMPACT;

D O I：

10.1177/15270025211051063

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

In this paper, we investigate competitive balance in Major League Soccer and compare balance across talent acquisition policy regimes with a bias-corrected measure from 1996 to 2019. We evaluate multiple moments of the league talent distribution, and we add to past work by using multiple levels of aggregation that reveal heterogeneous results with respect to the distribution of talent within and across seasons. We show that there has been little improvement in competitive balance over the league's history, though there has been an increase in year-to-year stability in balance and a lower propensity for teams at the extremes of performance.

引用

页码：329 / 354

页数：26

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