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Ioannis Ntzoufras
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Manasis, V., Avgerinou, V. and Ntzoufras, I. (2011).
published in
Europäische Sportmodelle - Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen in international vergleichender Perspektive
(European sports models - similarities and differences in international comparative perspective),
Emrich E., Pierdzioch C., Büch P.-M. (eds.) in collaboration with Bischoff F.,
Reihe Sportökonomie (Series of Sports Economics ), Volume 13,
Hofmann-Verlag GmbH & Co, Germany.
Competitive balance is a very important issue for professional team sports since its existence leads to an increased demand for sport events and therefore to the economic growth and blossom of a sport league. Even though in the course of the last decades sports economists have devoted a considerable amount of work studying the notion of competitive balance, its measurement is still a matter of debate. In this paper we investigate the measurement of the ‘seasonal’ competitive balance, which focuses on the relative quality of teams within a particular season. Our approach is ‘dynamic’ since it takes into consideration not only the final league table but also the weekly rounds of each season. Therefore it puts forward round-based indices of seasonal competitive balance. We focus on the European professional football but the methodology can be easily implemented in any other sport using round-robin tournaments.
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