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- Title
Week to Week Attendance and Competitive Balance in the National Football League.
- Authors
Coates, Dennis; Humphreys, Brad R.
- Abstract
We examine the relationship between game day attendance, uncertainty of outcome, and team and facility quality in the National Football League. Based on results from a reduced form model of game day attendance at 5,495 regular season NFL games from the 1985-2008 seasons, we find weak evidence that attendance increases when fans expect the home team to win by a large margin, and strong evidence that attendance decreases when the home team is expected to lose, contrary to the predictions of the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FOOTBALL attendance; FOOTBALL fans; FOOTBALL stadiums; NATIONAL Football League
- Publication
International Journal of Sport Finance, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 4, p239
- ISSN
1558-6235
- Publication type
Article