On the Road With the National Basketball Association's Superstar Externality

Berri, David J.; Schmidt, Martin B.

doi:10.1177/1527002505275094

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“…Hausman and Leonard (Hausman and Leonard, 1997) and Berri and Schmidt (Berri and Schmidt, 2006) both document attendence changes associated with superstars. It may be the case that fans like a close contest, but one that features the exceptional talent, or that they simply prefer to watch the exceptional talent.…”

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Competitive Balance and Consumer Demand in the English Football League

Martinez

Willner²

2017

AFA

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Competitive balance in sports leagues is often used to justify revenue sharing agreements. The justification is that competitive balance leads to higher attendance and higher attendance generates more revenues. By sharing revenue, small market teams can afford to pay for high quality talent, assuring more equal distribution of that talent. Unlike US professional leagues, English football operates under a system of relegation and promotion so that at the end of each season the worst performing teams are "relegated" and the top performing teams in the next level down are "promoted". This may serve as an alternative to revenue sharing to maintain competitive balance.Using data from the top English football league (currently the Premiership) from 1888-89 through the 2014-15 season we calculate multiple measures of league competitive balance for each year using both 3-1-0 and 2-1-0 point systems. We then use these measures with available macroeconomic control variables to examine the relationship between competitive balance and match attendance.We find that, counter to related work in US sports leagues, competitive balance in English football is negatively associated with attendance. This is particularly true in the case of the Premiership era, wherein only five teams have won the championship and in the past 10 seasons, the top 4 places of the championship has been dominated by 7 clubs, yet attendance has steadily increased. This result raises questions about the utility of revenue sharing in increasing attendance in English football.

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Competitive Balance and Consumer Demand in the English Football League

Martinez

Willner²

2017

AFA

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“…Hausman and Leonard (1997) estimated Michael Jordan's worth to other teams in the NBA as more than 50 million dollars. This estimate has been reinforced by Berri and Schmidt (2006). Weigelt and Camerer (1988) considered reputation as information, which relies on past behavior and helps to predict future behavior.…”

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Do clutch players win the game? Testing the validity of the clutch player's reputation in basketball

Solomonov

Avugos

Bar‐Eli

2015

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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“…Second, football stars also represent celebrities and have a significant effect on their fans. They influence, for example, the degree of their fans' team identification (Hoegele et al 2014a;Fisher and Wakefield 1998) or game attendance (Berri and Schmidt 2006;Brandes et al 2008). Consequently, football clubs aim to exploit this potential in the same way as ''conventional'' business companies plan to D.…”

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The importance of key celebrity characteristics for customer segmentation by age and gender: Does beauty matter in professional football?

2015

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This paper examines through the lens of sport whether male and female customers as well as differently aged customers focus on different celebrity characteristics and whether they are influenced by celebrities' facial attractiveness. Drawing on psychological and sociological theories like attachment theory, social role theory of gender, or social norm theory as well as on the academic literature on celebrity endorsement in general, we develop several hypotheses regarding how a fan's age and gender affect the importance of key characteristics of football starsnamely experience, personality, exemplary behavior, and skills. Using a proprietary dataset that combines archival data concerning professional football players and clubs with survey data of more than 2100 football fans, we find evidence that female fans attach more importance to a player's personality and behavior while male fans seem to focus on experience and skills. We further find that when fans get older, the importance of a player's behavior and experience increases. Moreover, our results show that the facial attractiveness of players clearly influences fan perceptions. Our results contribute to existing research on customer segmentation by providing a & Daniel Hoegele more differentiated picture of the effects of key celebrity characteristics on different customers.

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On the Road With the National Basketball Association's Superstar Externality

Cited by 60 publications

References 12 publications

Competitive Balance and Consumer Demand in the English Football League

Competitive Balance and Consumer Demand in the English Football League

Do clutch players win the game? Testing the validity of the clutch player's reputation in basketball

The importance of key celebrity characteristics for customer segmentation by age and gender: Does beauty matter in professional football?

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