Talent concentration and competitive imbalance in European soccer

This paper studies the concentration of player talent and end-of-season league points to empirically assess whether leagues with a more equal distribution of ...

Our results suggest that repeated participation in the UEFA Champions League, with its considerable monetary returns by (more or less) the ...

Talent Concentration and Competitive Imbalance in European Soccer

Our empirical analysis confirms that the level of talent concentration in a league has a statistically significant and positive impact on the ...

Talent Concentration and Competitive Imbalance in European Soccer

Our empirical analysis confirms that the level of talent concentration in a league has a statistically significant and positive impact on the points ...

Talent Concentration and Competitive Imbalance in European Soccer

However, we also find that the positive correlation between talent and points concentration does not vary a lot across the European leagues nor ...

Talent concentration and competitive imbalance in European soccer

IntroductionWhile most of the available literature on competitive balance analyses its impact on ticket sales and TV audiences, less empirical research is ...

Talent development and competitive balance in European football

Here, we focus on match performance instead of the ranking of countries, such as the UEFA and ELO rankings, to ensure that all teams are playing at their ...

Competitive balance: a spatio-temporal comparison

However, competitive imbalance undermines the principle of uncertainty in sport. The 40th Monthly Report of the CIES Football Observatory analyses competitive ...

A Review of Competitive Balance in European Football Leagues ...

Seven of the 24 leagues examined have seen a statistically significant worsening of league concentration post-FFP, fourteen leagues experienced ...

Talent Allocation in European Football Leagues: Why Competitive ...

In this paper, we argue that some degree of competitive imbalance may be actually better insofar as concentration of talent – in the same team or league – ...

Competitive Balance in the Post-2024 Champions League and the ...

The third level is long-term CB, which takes multiple seasons into account. It is related to the uncertainty of the outcome of a tournament. For ...

Talent Allocation in European Football Leagues - De Gruyter

... talent in team-sport competitions – there is a trade-off between “competitive balance” and “talent concentration”. Section 4 de- scribes the ...

Impact of the UEFA Nations League on competitive balance ...

The primary determinant of CB and CI in national team football is the differences in population of talent across countries, consistent with evolutionary biology ...

INCREASE COMPETITIVE BALANCE IN EUROPEAN FOOTBALL, A ...

The result was the beginning of a “talent drain” towards high revenue leagues. In English leagues, for example, the concentration of foreign players increased ...

Factors influencing competitive balance across European football ...

Our outputs evidence that play-offs for relegation, average age, talent concentration, and standard deviation of team values showed negative ...

Competitive Balance Part 1: What Are The Issues?

Competitive dominance (i.e. competitive imbalance) implies that a small number of teams in a league have high probabilities of sporting success ...

New Report shows decline of competitive balance in European (...)

According to the Report, “the concentration of resources goes hand in hand with the concentration of talents. Many teams and leagues are confined to a ...

A longitudinal and comparative analysis of competitive balance in ...

Based on the distinctions drawn in the ACB literature our research examined: (1) the level of concentration within and between the 'big five' European football ...

New Report shows decline of competitive balance in European ...

According to the Report, “the concentration of resources goes hand in hand with the concentration of talents. Many teams and leagues are confined to a ...

The competitive balance of UEFA and CONMEBOL football leagues ...

We discern a tangible and significant correlation between the competitive equilibrium of leagues and the performance metrics of national teams.