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Baseball Home Field Advantage Without Fans In The Stands, Jeremy M. Losak, Joseph Sabel
Baseball Home Field Advantage Without Fans In The Stands, Jeremy M. Losak, Joseph Sabel
Sport Management - All Scholarship
Home field advantage is universally accepted across most major sports and levels of competition. However, exact causes of home field advantage have been difficult to disentangle. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique, natural experiment to isolate elements related to home field advantage since all 2020 regular season Major League Baseball games were played without fans. Results provide no statistically significant evidence of a difference in home field advantage between the 2019 and 2020 seasons, evidence that home crowd support is not a driver of home field advantage. There does appear to be a statisitcal advantage by the home team batting …
Player Pricing Mechanisms And The Daily Fantasy Sport Chance Versus Skill Debate, Jeremy M. Losak
Player Pricing Mechanisms And The Daily Fantasy Sport Chance Versus Skill Debate, Jeremy M. Losak
Sport Management - All Scholarship
Differentiating and defining games of skill versus chance have major legal implications when classifying gambling, especially in relation to daily fantasy sports in the United States.This paper provides a theoretical discussion and introduces an empirical approach to analyzing game player pricing mechanisms. If game pricing mechanisms are fully efficient - player prices fully reflect the expected contributions from players-then that game is one of chance since there is no opportunity for skill to play a role in outcomes. This paper examines player prices from DraftKings' daily fantasy football product. Empirical results show that there are strategies deriving from the pricing …