"The ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes, everything else is pure theory". (January 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "The ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes, everything else is pure theory". (January 2021)
- Main Title:
- "The ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes, everything else is pure theory"
- Authors:
- Jost, Peter-J.
- Abstract:
- We model a soccer match between two heterogeneous teams as a two-stage contest where each team chooses its attacking and defending effort for each half of the match. We characterize the optimal teams' efforts as well as the optimal effort allocation between offense and defense. In contrast to the theoretical literature on soccer we show, for example, that the leading team may preempt its competitor in the first half. Our analysis also sheds new light on empirical studies that investigate the change in winning points on the number of ties by showing that this effect depends crucially on teams' heterogeneity.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of sports economics. Volume 22:Number 1(2021)
- Journal:
- Journal of sports economics
- Issue:
- Volume 22:Number 1(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 22, Issue 1 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0022-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 27
- Page End:
- 74
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01
- Subjects:
- team contest -- sports economics -- soccer
Sports -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals
Sports administration -- Periodicals
338.47796 - Journal URLs:
- http://jse.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1527002520939614 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1527-0025
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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