The pandemic's impact on Major League Baseball (MLB) was especially dire. In 2020, a single player testing positive was enough to cancel the entire game, with a few teams sidelined for weeks. This paper looks at all free-agent contracts signed during the 2017-2023 off-season signing periods....

This study examines subsequent head coach opportunities for former National Football League (NFL) head coaches. Under a subsequent CEO career framework, survival analysis is used to examine the effects of race and market characteristics on subsequent NFL head coach opportunities for former head...

We follow workers' performance along an unbalanced panel dataset over multiple years and study how performance varies at the end of fixed-term contracts, in a labour market where some people face a mobility restricting clause (i.e., a noncompete clause). Focusing on the labour market of the...

Competitions often suffer from biased judgments by officials tied to their social identities. In international cricket, home nation umpires favoured home teams, but neutral umpires were introduced successfully to address this bias. However, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the return of home...

Prior to the ABA coming into existence in 1967, the NBA enjoyed a monopsony in the market for professional basketball talent in the United States. One would predict that a monopsony would be able to exploit the talent employed. The arrival of the ABA, though, theoretically should have...

We follow workers' performance along an unbalanced panel dataset over multiple years and study how performance varies at the end of fixed-term contracts, in a labour market where some people face a mobility restricting clause (i.e., a noncompete clause). Focusing on the labour market of the...

The objective of this paper is to enrich the literature and explain why machine learning took the lead on theoretical and empirical studies. We applied machine learning techniques to professional tennis data while investigating multiple approaches based on our personal tennis understanding. This...

Game locations can make a significant difference on a player’s after-tax earnings. And under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, this disparity has increased. Extensive research exists regarding state tax rates and professional athletes. These studies conclusively show that athletes consider...

Globalization brings lots of cultural changes. These changes also affected sports culture. It makes some sports more popular while some lose their popularity. Pakistan field hockey is among those victims. A national sport of Pakistan with bright history is now in the worst condition. In this...

Globally, crickets are gaining recognition as a valuable alternative protein source for human consumption due to their lower resource requirement and ecological footprint compared to traditional livestock. In this paper, we examine strategies that may expedite the sustainable domestication of...

We analyse winning strategies in the Australian Women's Big Bash Cricket League (WBBL). Our objective is two- fold. First such analysis has potential implications for fan interest, team selection and recruitment. While several studies have analysed winning strategies in men's cricket we are...

Sports fans participate in supporting sports teams by demonstrating various attitudinal behaviors such as loyalty, purchase intention, and stadium attendance. However, although the literature indicates that sports fans who are fanatics can demonstrate advanced attitudinal behavior such as...

2022 was a difficult year for investors as declines in core liquid and illiquid assets impacted returns. This paper examines the burgeoning interest in investing in sports businesses and given the unique correlation profile that the National Hockey League (NHL) team valuation has to core assets,...

Cricket is one of the most watching and loved sports in current world. With the increasing craze for cricket, different countries are participating at various tournaments, leagues conducting all over the world. Since each player has a responsibility to perform at the best, it is important to...

We propose that racial disparity in organizational leadership representation will persist until valuative bias favoring white men ceases to influence advancement from the lower-level positions where most careers begin. We consider how racial disparity results from the organizational matching of...

Hack-a-Shaq satisfies the criteria of Kandel and Lazear (1979) for being a credible shame event, making it useful for measuring the effect of a shame threat on worker production. I find that high (low) producers, who are less (more) threatened by Hack-a-Shaq, increase (decrease) production in...

This study aimed to analyze the viability of placing bets on the first player to score in a basketball game by examining multiple strategies. The motivation behind this focus is the perceived increased randomness in betting on the first scorer compared to conventional money-line wagers. Given...

Cricket in India is not just a game but almost a Religion. Cricket can no longer be labelled as the gentleman’s game as the spirit of the gentleman has however been abused. Lodha committee was formed by Supreme Court of India in January 2015 under Justice RM Lodha after the wake of the Justice...

This is a classroom activity using the free ESPN Fantasy Baseball platform to draft players and the Out of the Park software ($40) to simulate a baseball season. The activity enhances learning of economic concepts of marginal product and competitive balance. It also improves the data literacy...

We investigate the relationship between consumer discrimination, racial matching strategies, andemployer discrimination in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1985 to 2016. To this end, we assess the extent to which both fan attendance and team performance respond to changes in teams’ and their...

We study human capital reallocation following firm-specific idiosyncratic shocks. Theory offers diverging predictions as to whether human capital gets reallocated to its most productive use following these shocks. To empirically test these predictions, we focus on relegation battles in the...

Scheduling factors such as a visiting team playing a game back-to-back against a rested home team can affect the win probability of the teams for that game and potentially affect teams unevenly throughout the season. This study examines schedule inequity in the National Basketball Association...

The victory at Gabba is a hallmark of a team’s collective vision and strength to outshine in the face of crisis and prove how the ordinary becomes the extraordinary when they intend to deliver as a single unit. The team was down and out, the morale was all time low, and the poorest test score...

We study how workers in production teams are affected by the temporary absence and replacement of a coworker. When a substitute coworker is absent, the remaining coworkers produce less output per working time. They compensate for this by increasing their working time at the expense of the (less...