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Adams, Christopher. “Estimating the Value of ‘Going for It’ (When No One Does),” Dec. 12, 2006.
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Bisland, R. B. “A Stochastic CAI Model for Assisting in the Design of Football Strategy.”
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Journal of Sport Management
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Romer, David H. “Do Firms Maximize?: Evidence from Professional Football.”
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______. “It’s Fourth Down and What Does the Bellman Equation Say?: A Dynamic Programming Analysis of Football Strategy.” NBER Working Paper No. W9024 (June 2002). Available at SSRN:
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HOW COMPETITIVE ARE COMPETITIVE SPORTS?

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Szymanski, Stefan. “The Champions League and the Coase Theorem.”
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TIGER WOODS IS HUMAN

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Tom, Sabrina M., Craig R. Fox, Christopher Trepel, and Russell A. Poldrack. “The Neural Basis of Loss Aversion in Decision-Making Under Risk.”
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THE VALUE OF A BLOCKED SHOT

Huizinga, J. “The Value of a Blocked Shot in the NBA: From Dwight Howard to Tim Duncan.” MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, 2010.

ROUNDING FIRST

Franke, R., W. Mayew, and Y. Sun. “Do Pennies Matter?: Investor Relations Consequences of Small Negative Earnings Surprises.”
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Pope, D., and U. Simonsohn. “Round Numbers as Goals: Evidence from Baseball, SAT Takers, and the Lab.”
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THANKS, MR. ROONEY

Madden, Janice F., and Matthew Ruther. “Has the NFL’s Rooney Rule Efforts ‘Leveled the Field’ for African American Head Coach Candidates?” Working paper, Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, 2010.

SO, WHAT
IS
DRIVING THE HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE?

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Gandar, John M., Richard A. Zuber, and Reinhold P. Lamb. “The Home Field Advantage Revisited: A Search for the Bias in Other Sports Betting Markets.”
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)

Johnston, R. “On Referee Bias, Crowd Size, and Home Advantage in the English Soccer Premiership.”
Journal of Sports Sciences
26, no. 6 (2008): 563–68.
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Nevill, A. M., N. J. Balmer, and A. Mark Williams. “The Influence of Crowd Noise and Experience upon Refereeing Decisions in Football.”
Psychology of Sport and Exercise
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Nevill, A. M., and R. L. Holder. “Home Advantage in Sport: An Overview of Studies on the Advantage of Playing at Home.”
Sports Medicine
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Pettersson-Lidbom, Per, and Mikael Priks. “Behavior Under Social Pressure: Empty Italian Stadiums and Referee Bias.”
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Pollard, R. “Home Advantage in Soccer: A Retrospective Analysis.”
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Smith, Erin E., and Jon D. Groetzinger. “Do Fans Matter?: The Effect of Attendance on the Outcomes of Major League Baseball Games.”
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Sutter, Matthias, and Martin G. Kocher. “Favoritism of Agents: The Case of Referees’ Home Bias.”
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)

Vergin, Roger C., and John J. Sosik. “No Place Like Home: An Examination of the Home Field Advantage in Gambling Strategies in NFL Football.”
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)

OFF THE CHART

Eschker, E., S. J. Perez, and M. V. Siegler. “The NBA and the Influx of International Basketball Players.”
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Grier, Kevin B., and Robert D. Tollison. “The Rookie Draft and Competitive Balance: The Case of Professional Football.”
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Kahn, Lawrence M. “The Sports Business as a Labor Market Laboratory.”
Journal of Economic Perspectives
(American Economic Association) 14, no. 3 (Summer 2000): 75–94.

Kahn, Lawrence M., and Malav Shah. “Race, Compensation, and Contract Length in the NBA: 2001–2002.”
Industrial Relations
44, no. 3 (July 2005): 444–62. Available at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=739935

Massey, Cade, and Richard H. Thaler. “The Loser’s Curse: Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the National Football League Draft,” Aug. 14, 2010. Available at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=697121

Rosen, Sherwin, and Allen Sanderson. “Labor Markets in Professional Sports.” NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., no. 7573 (2000).
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Staw, Barry M., and Ha Hoang. “Sunk Costs in the NBA: Why Draft Order Affects Playing Time and Survival in Professional Basketball.”
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Thaler, Richard.
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HOW A COIN TOSS TRUMPS ALL

Burke, Brian,
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Magnus, J. R., and F. J. G. M. Klaassen. “On the Advantage of Serving First in a Tennis Set: Four Years at Wimbledon.”
The Statistician
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WHAT
ISN’T
IN THE MITCHELL REPORT?

Marcano, Arturo J., and David P. Fidler. “The Globalization of Baseball: Major League Baseball and the Mistreatment of Latin American Baseball Talent.”
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
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Simpson, Tyler M. “Balking at Responsibility: Baseball’s Performance-Enhancing Drug Problem in Latin America.”
Law and Business Review of the Americas
14 (2008): 369.

Spagnuolo, Diana L. “Swinging for the Fence: A Call for Institutional Reform as Dominican Boys Risk Their Futures for a Chance in Major League Baseball.”
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law
24 (2003): 263.

DO ATHLETES REALLY MELT WHEN ICED?

Berry, S., and C. Wood. “The Cold-Foot Effect.”
Chance
17, no. 4 (2004): 47–51.

THE MYTH OF THE HOT HAND

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Perceptual and Motor Skills
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_______. “Momentum in the Performance of Professional Tournament Pocket Billiards Players.”
International Journal of Sport Psychology
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Albert, J. “A Statistical Analysis of Hitting Streaks in Baseball.”
Journal of the American Statistical Association
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Albert, Jim, and Jay Bennett.
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Albert, J., and P. Williamson. “Rejoinder.”
Journal of the American Statistical Association
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________. “Using Model/Data Simulations to Detect Streakiness.”
The American Statistician
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Albright, S. C. “A Statistical Analysis of Hitting Streaks in Baseball.”
Journal of the American Statistical Association
88 (1993): 1175–83.

Ayton, P., and I. Fischer. “The Hot Hand Fallacy and the Gambler’s Fallacy: Two Faces of Subjective Randomness?”
Memory and Cognition
32 (2004): 1369–78.

Bar-Eli, Michael, Simcha Avugos, and Markus Raab. “Twenty Years of ‘Hot Hand’ Research: Review and Critique.”
Psychology of Sport and Exercise
7 (2006): 525–53.

Brown, W. O., and R. D. Sauer. “Does the Basketball Market Believe in the ‘Hot Hand’?”
The American Economic Review
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________. “Fundamentals or Noise? Evidence from the Professional Basketball Betting Market.”
Journal of Finance
48 (1993): 1193–1209.

Burns, B. D., and B. Corpus. “Randomness and Inductions from Streaks: ‘Gambler’s Fallacy’ Versus ‘Hot Hand.’ ”
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
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________. “Examination of Hole-to-Hole Streakiness on the PGA Tour.”
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_________. “Streakiness Among Professional Golfers: Fact or Fiction?”
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The American Statistician
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Forthofer, R. “Streak Shooter: The Sequel.”
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Frame, D., E. Hughson, and J. C. Leach. “Runs, Regimes, and Rationality: The Hot Hand Strikes Back.” Working paper, 2003.

Frohlich, C. “Baseball: Pitching No-Hitters.”
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Gandar, John, Richard Zuber, Thomas O’Brien, and Ben Russo. “Testing Rationality in the Point Spread Betting Market.”
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_______. Transcript from Tom Gilovich hot hand homepage online chat, 2002.
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Gilovich, T., R. Vallone, and A. Tversky. “The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random Sequences.”
Cognitive Psychology
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Golec, J., and M. Tamarkin. “The Degree of Inefficiency in the Football Betting Markets.”
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Gould, S. J. “The Streak of Streaks.”
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Gula, B., and M. Raab. “Hot Hand Belief and Hot Hand Behavior: A Comment on Koehler and Conley.”
Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
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The Journal of Finance
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Jackson, D., and K. Mosurski. “Heavy Defeats in Tennis: Psychological Momentum or Random Effect?”
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Koehler, J. J., and C. A. Conley. “The ‘Hot Hand’ Myth in Professional Basketball.”
Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
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Tversky, A., and T. Gilovich. “The Cold Facts About the ‘Hot Hand’ in Basketball.”
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________. “The ‘Hot Hand’: Statistical Reality or Cognitive Illusion?”
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______. “Belief in the Law of Small Numbers.”
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