Moments of Competitive Balance in Major League Soccer
- 주제(키워드) 도움말 competitive balance , bias-corrected estimator , major league soccer , designated player rule
- 발행기관 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
- 발행년도 2021
- 총서유형 Journal
- 본문언어 영어
초록/요약 도움말
In this paper, we investigate competitive balance in Major League Soccer and compare balance across talent acquisition policy regimes with a bias-corrected measure from 1996 to 2019. We evaluate multiple moments of the league talent distribution, and we add to past work by using multiple levels of aggregation that reveal heterogeneous results with respect to the distribution of talent within and across seasons. We show that there has been little improvement in competitive balance over the league's history, though there has been an increase in year-to-year stability in balance and a lower propensity for teams at the extremes of performance.
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