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Mesure de la Competitive Balance dans les ligues de sports professionnels. Faut-il distinguer les ligues fermées des ligues avec promotion et relégation ?

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  • Jean-Pascal Gayant
  • Nicolas Le Pape

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In this paper, we investigate the ability of traditional indices of Competitive Balance to properly measure the attractiveness of professional sports leagues, differentiating Closed leagues and Promotion & Relegation leagues. Using an original device that allows to build hypothetical configurations of final rankings of clubs, we highlight the inability of traditional indices, and especially that of the Gini index, to account for the attractiveness of the different types of leagues. When adopting the approach based on the ?parallel? between decision under risk and measurement of inequalities (following Yaari [1987]), we propose a generalization of the Gini index that properly reflects the attractiveness of different types of leagues. Classification JEL : L83, D63, D81

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  • Jean-Pascal Gayant & Nicolas Le Pape, 2015. "Mesure de la Competitive Balance dans les ligues de sports professionnels. Faut-il distinguer les ligues fermées des ligues avec promotion et relégation ?," Revue économique, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 66(2), pages 427-448.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:recosp:reco_pr2_0040
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    1. Nicolas SCELLES, 2016. "Wladimir Andreff (Ed.), Disequilibrium Sports Economics: Competitive Imbalance and Budget Constraints," Journal of Economics and Political Economy, KSP Journals, vol. 3(2), pages 393-410, June.
    2. Dubois, Marc, 2022. "Dominance criteria on grids for measuring competitive balance in sports leagues," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 115(C), pages 1-10.

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    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

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