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Competitive Balance and Game Attendance in Major League Baseball

James W. Meehan Jr.1*, Randy A. Nelson1, Thomas V. Richardson2

1 Colby College
2 Colby College graduate, 2003

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jwmeehan{at}colby.edu.


  Abstract
This article tests for the effects of a change in competitive balance on attendance at Major League Baseball games using game-level attendance data for the 2000-2002 seasons. Employing the difference between the winning percentages of the home and visiting teams as a measure of competitive balance, the authors find (a) the effects of a change in competitive balance on attendance are not symmetric, (b) the effects of a change in competitive balance increase as a team falls further behind the divisional leader, and (c) the effects of a change in competitive balance decline throughout the season if the home team has a better record than the visiting team but increase if the home team has a worse record than the visiting team.

First published on April 18, 2007, doi:10.1177/1527002506296545

Journal of Sports Economics 2007;8:563.

A more recent version of this article appeared on December 1, 2007

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