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The Relationship Between Competitive Balance And Revenue In America's Two Largest Sports Leagues, Matt D. Pautler
The Relationship Between Competitive Balance And Revenue In America's Two Largest Sports Leagues, Matt D. Pautler
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This paper looks at the impact that competitive balance has on team revenues. The hypothesis that this paper is operating under is that higher levels of competitive balance will lead to higher levels of revenue. Two different measures of competitive balance will be used and regressions will be run to investigate whether high levels of the competitive balance measure are associated with high levels of revenue. The results of the data indicated that over all three time horizons (ten year, five year, and two year), high levels of variability in playoff appearances were associated with high revenue for Major League …