The Impact of the Soccer Schedule on TV Viewership and Stadium Attendance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Impact of the Soccer Schedule on TV Viewership and Stadium Attendance write by Chang Wang. This book was released on 2017. The Impact of the Soccer Schedule on TV Viewership and Stadium Attendance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the past decade, television broadcasters have been investing a huge amount of money for the Belgian Pro League broadcasting rights. These companies pursue an audience rating maximization, which depends heavily on the schedule of the league matches. At the same time, clubs try to maximize their home attendance and find themselves affected by the schedule as well. Our paper aims to capture the Belgian soccer fans' preferences with respect to scheduling options, both for watching matches on TV and in the stadium. We carried out a discrete choice experiment using an online survey questionnaire distributed on a national scale. The choice sets are based on three match characteristics: month, kickoff time, and quality of the opponent. The first part of this survey concerns television broadcasting aspects. The second part includes questions about stadium attendance. The choice data is first analyzed with a conditional logit model which assumes homogenous preferences. Then a mixed logit model is fit to model the heterogeneity among the fans. The estimates are used to calculate the expected utility of watching a Belgian Pro League match for every possible setting, either on TV or in the stadium. These predictions are validated in terms of the real audience rating and home attendance data. Our results can be used to improve the scheduling process of the Belgian Pro League in order to persuade more fans to watch the matches on TV or in a stadium.
If We Build It, Will They Come?
If We Build It, Will They Come? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If We Build It, Will They Come? write by Timothy DeSchriver. This book was released on 2020. If We Build It, Will They Come? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Purpose - Two of the primary growth strategies for Major League Soccer (MLS) have been team expansion and the construction of soccer-specific stadiums. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to determine the relationship between these factors and game-specific MLS spectator attendance. Design/methodology/approach - Two multiple regression models, one using multi-level mixed effects linear regression and another using interval regression, were developed to explain the variation in attendance utilizing the two factors of interest along with other control factors that have been identified as attendance determinants in previous literature. Game-specific data were collected for five MLS seasons, 2007-2011.Findings - The two regression models explained approximately 40 percent of the variation in spectator attendance and the results showed that expansion teams and soccer-specific stadiums were significantly related to attendance. However, the effect of soccer-specific stadiums was minimized due to the extreme success of the Seattle Sounders in drawing about twice as many fans as the next highest drawing franchise, yet playing in an American football stadium.Research limitations/implications - While many of the standard factors such as the presence of holidays and novelty players, competition from other professional teams, and day of week, competition from other professional teams; team quality failed to show significance. Expansion teams drew better than incumbent teams and the impact from soccer-specific stadia is weak given the success of the Seattle franchise (and possibly negative when excluding Seattle). Censoring of the dependent variable had a discernible impact on many of the attendance factors.Practical implications - These findings may be useful to managers of MLS and their teams along with other professional teams and/or leagues that are investigating the use of either team expansion or the construction of new facilities to increase spectator attendance.Originality/value - This is the first study to investigate the relationship between expansion and new stadium construction in MLS over multiple years. The results indicate that MLS's decision to use team expansion and the construction of soccer-specific stadiums has been beneficial with respect to spectator attendance.
Attendance Demand in Sports Economics
Attendance Demand in Sports Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Attendance Demand in Sports Economics write by John Embery. This book was released on . Attendance Demand in Sports Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Computational Data and Social Networks
Computational Data and Social Networks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Computational Data and Social Networks write by Andrea Tagarelli. This book was released on 2019-11-11. Computational Data and Social Networks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2019, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in November 2019. The 22 full and 8 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The papers appear under the following topical headings: Combinatorial Optimization and Learning; Influence Modeling, Propagation, and Maximization; NLP and Affective Computing; Computational Methods for Social Good; and User Profiling and Behavior Modeling.
Operations Research and Enterprise Systems
Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Operations Research and Enterprise Systems write by Greg H. Parlier. This book was released on 2018-06-28. Operations Research and Enterprise Systems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in February 2017. The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 90 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: methodologies and technologies; and applications.
