ON THE OPTIMAL REALIGNMENT OF A CONTEST: THE CASE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL.

This article examines the relationship between demand and scheduling in college football. We first derive two different metrics for team quality, and then use those metrics to see how they impact attendance. We find that there is a positive interaction between the quality of the teams. Then various...

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Publicado en:Economic Inquiry Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 483 - 497
Autores principales: Szymanski, Stefan, Winfree, Jason
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2018
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          Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109.
          Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844.
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        Scheduling
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