664
Views
11
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Scholarly sports: Influence of social science academe on sports rules and policy

ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 2591-2601 | Received 07 Oct 2020, Accepted 25 Oct 2021, Published online: 30 Nov 2021

References

  • Anbarci, N., Sun, C.-J., & Utku Ünver, M. (2021). Designing practical and fair sequential team contests: The case of penalty shootouts. Games and Economic Behavior, 130, 25–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2021.07.004
  • Apesteguia, J., & Palacios-Huerta, I. (2010). Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment. American Economic Review, 100(5), 2548–2564. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.5.2548
  • Banchio, M., & Munro, E. (2020). An incentive-compatible draft allocation mechanism. Unpublished manuscript. Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
  • Bhattacharya, R., Gill, P. S., & Swartz, T. B. (2011). Duckworth-Lewis and Twenty20 cricket. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 62(11), 1951–1957. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2010.175
  • Borland, J., Chicu, M., & Macdonald, R. D. (2009). Do teams always lose to win? performance incentives and the player draft in the Australian football league. Journal of Sports Economics, 10(5), 451–484. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527002509331615
  • Brams, S. J., & Ismail, M. S. (2018). Making the rules of sports fairer. SIAM Review, 60(1), 181–202. https://doi.org/10.1137/16M1074540
  • Brocas, I., & Carrillo, J. (2004). Do the “three-point victory” and “golden goal” rules make soccer more exciting? Journal of Sports Economics, 5(2), 169–185. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527002503257207
  • Butler, R., Lenten, L. J. A., & Massey, P. (2020). Bonus incentives and team effort levels: Evidence from the ‘field’. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 67(5), 539–550. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12249
  • Camporesi, S., & Knuckles, J. A. (2014). Shifting the burden of proof in doping: Lessons from environmental sustainability applied to high-performance sport. Reflective Practice, 15(1), 106–118. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2013.869203
  • Carrillo, J. D. (2007). Penalty shoot-outs: Before or after extra time? Journal of Sports Economics, 8(5), 505–518. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527002506292580
  • Cea, S., Durán, G., Guajardo, M., Sauré, D., Siebert, J., & Zamorano, G. (2020). An analytics approach to the fifa ranking procedure and the world cup final draw. Annals of Operations Research, 286(1-2), 119–146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-019-03261-8
  • Che, Y.-K., & Hendershott, T. (2008). How to divide the possession of a football? Economics Letters, 99(3), 561–565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2007.10.013
  • Cohen-Zada, D., Krumer, A., & Shapir, O. M. (2018). Testing the effect of serve order in tennis tiebreak. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 146, 106–115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.12.012
  • Csató, L. (2019). UEFA Champions League entry has not satisfied strategyproofness in three seasons. Journal of Sports Economics, 20(7), 975–981. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527002519833091
  • Csató, L. (2020). The UEFA Champions League seeding is not strategy-proof since the 2015/16 season. Annals of Operations Research, 292(1), 161–169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-020-03637-1
  • Csató, L. (2021a). A comparison of penalty shootout designs in soccer. 4OR, 19(2), 183–198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10288-020-00439-w
  • Csató, L. (2021b). How to design a multi-stage tournament when some results are carried over? arXiv: 1712.04183.
  • Dagaev, D., & Sonin, K. (2018). Winning by losing: Incentive incompatibility in multiple qualifiers. Journal of Sports Economics, 19(8), 1122–1146. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527002517704022
  • Duckworth, F. C., & Lewis, A. J. (1998). A fair method for resetting the target in interrupted one-day cricket matches. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 49(3), 220–227. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600524
  • Duckworth, F. C., & Lewis, A. J. (2004). A successful operational research intervention in one-day cricket. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 55(7), 749–759. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601717
  • Duckworth, F. C., Lewis, A. J., & Stern, S. E. (2019). Cricket’s raining champion: Two decades of Duckworth–Lewis (and Stern). Significance, 16(3), 30–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01278.x
  • Durán, G., Guajardo, M., & Sauré, D. (2017). Scheduling the South American qualifiers to the 2018 FIFA World Cup by integer programming. European Journal of Operational Research, 262(3), 1109–1115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.04.043
  • FIFA (2018). FIFA world ranking technical explanation revision. Unpublished manuscript.
  • Friesl, M., Lenten, L. J. A., Libich, J., & Stehlík, P. (2017). In search of goals: Increasing ice hockey’s attractiveness by a sides swap. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 68(9), 1006–1018. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41274-017-0243-2
  • Gold, A. M. (2010). NHL draft order based on mathematical elimination. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 6(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.2202/1559-0410.1203
  • González-Díaz, J., & Palacios-Huerta, I. (2016). Cognitive performance in competitive environments: Evidence from a natural experiment. Journal of Public Economics, 139, 40–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.05.001
  • Guedes, J. C., & Machado, F. S. (2002). Changing rewards in contests: Has the three-point rule brought more offense to soccer? Empirical Economics, 27(4), 607–630. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001810100106
  • Guyon, J. (2015). Rethinking the FIFA World Cup final draw. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 11(3), 169–182. https://doi.org/10.1515/jqas-2014-0030
  • Guyon, J. (2018). What a fairer 24 team UEFA Euro could look like. Journal of Sports Analytics, 4(4), 297–317. https://doi.org/10.3233/JSA-180219
  • Guyon, J. (2021). Risk of collusion: Will groups of 3 ruin the FIFA World Cup? Journal of Sports Analytics, 6(4), 259–279. https://doi.org/10.3233/JSA-200414
  • Haigh, J. (2008). Uses and limitations of mathematics in sport. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 20(2), 97–108. https://doi.org/10.1093/imaman/dpn024
  • Jayadevan, V. (2004). An improved system for the computation of target scores in interrupted limited over cricket matches adding variations in scoring range as another parameter. Current Science, 20(2), 97–108.
  • Jones, C. (2012). The new rules for NFL overtime. Mathematics Magazine, 85(4), 277–283. https://doi.org/10.4169/math.mag.85.4.277
  • Jost, P.-J. (2021). Competitive balance and the away goals rule during extra time. Journal of Sports Economics, 22(7), 823–863. https://doi.org/10.1177/15270025211019082
  • Kazachkov, A., & Vardi, S. (2020). On tanking and competitive balance: Reconciling conflicting incentives. Unpublished manuscript.
  • Kendall, G., & Lenten, L. J. A. (2017). When sports rules go awry. European Journal of Operational Research, 257(2), 377–394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2016.06.050
  • Lasek, J., & Gagolewski, M. (2018). The efficacy of league formats in ranking teams. Statistical Modelling, 18(5-6), 411–435. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471082X18798426
  • Lenten, L. J. A. (2016). Mitigation of perverse incentives in professional sports leagues with reverse-order drafts. Review of Industrial Organization, 49(1), 25–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-015-9494-8
  • Lenten, L. J. A., Libich, J., & Stehlík, P. (2013). Policy timing and footballers’ incentives: Penalties before or after extra time? Journal of Sports Economics, 14(6), 629–655. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527002511432786
  • Lenten, L. J. A., Smith, A. C. T., & Boys, N. (2018). Evaluating an alternative draft pick allocation policy to reduce ‘tanking’ in the Australian Football League. European Journal of Operational Research, 267(1), 315–320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.11.029
  • Lenten, L. J. A., & Winchester, N. (2015). Secondary behavioural incentives: Bonus points and rugby professionals. Economic Record, 91(294), 386–398. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12185
  • Lipps, D. B., Galecki, A. T., & Ashton-Miller, J. A. (2011). On the implications of a sex difference in the reaction times of sprinters at the Beijing Olympics. PLoS One, 6(10), e26141. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026141
  • Loosemore, M. P., Butler, C. F., Khadri, A., McDonagh, D., Patel, V. A., & Bailes, J. E. (2017). Use of head guards in AIBA boxing tournaments—A cross-sectional observational study. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 27(1), 86–88. https://doi.org/10.1097/JSM.0000000000000322
  • Magnus, J. R., & Klaassen, F. J. G. M. (1999). On the advantage of serving first in a tennis set: Four years at Wimbledon. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (the Statistician), 48(2), 247–256. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00186
  • Massey, C., Thaler, R. (2005). Overconfidence vs. market efficiency in the National Football League [Working Paper 11270]. National Bureau of Economic Research.
  • McHale, I. G., & Asif, M. (2013). A modified Duckworth-Lewis method for adjusting targets in interrupted limited overs cricket. European Journal of Operational Research, 225(2), 353–362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.09.036
  • Moschini, G. (2010). Incentives and outcomes in a strategic setting: The 3-points-for-a-win system in soccer. Economic Inquiry, 48(1), 65–79. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2008.00177.x
  • Omalu, B. I., DeKosky, S. T., Minster, R. L., Ilyas Kamboh, M., Hamilton, R. L., & Wecht, C. H. (2005). Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a National Football League player. Neurosurgery, 57(1), 128–134. https://doi.org/10.1227/01.neu.0000163407.92769.ed
  • O’Shaughnessy, D. (2010). On the value of AFL player draft picks. Full Proceedings for the Tenth Mathematics and Computers in Sport Conference (10MCS), Darwin, 5-7 July, 113–120.
  • Palacios-Huerta, I. (2012). Tournaments, fairness and the Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence. Economic Inquiry, 50(3), 848–849. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2011.00435.x
  • Price, J., Soebbing, B. P., Berri, D., & Humphreys, B. R. (2010). Tournament incentives, league policy, and NBA team performance revisited. Journal of Sports Economics, 11(2), 117–135. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527002510363103
  • Stern, S. E. (2016). The Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method: Extending the Duckworth-Lewis methodology to deal with modern scoring rates. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 67(12), 1469–1480. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2016.30
  • Stewart, M. F., Stavros, C., Phillips, P., Mitchell, H., & Barake, A. (2016). Like father, like son: Analyzing Australian Football’s unique recruitment process. Journal of Sport Management, 30(6), 672–688. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2015-0254
  • Winchester, N. (2008). Shifting the ‘goal posts’: Optimizing the allocation of competition points for sporting contests. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 4(4), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.2202/1559-0410.1119
  • Winchester, N. (2016). Scoring points: How statistics helped change a rugby competition. Significance, 13(5), 38–41. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00965.x
  • Wright, M. B. (2009). 50 years of OR in sport. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 60(Sup1), S161–S168. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2008.170
  • Wright, M. B. (2014). Or analysis of sporting rules—A survey. European Journal of Operational Research, 232(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.03.043
  • Wu, Q., Bayer, R.-C., & Lenten, L. J. A. (2020). Conditional pension funds to combat cheating in sporting contests: Theory and experimental evidence. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 89, 101537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2020.101537

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.