{"title":"When Incentives Clash Fair-Play","authors":"Guy Elaad","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3013684","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The ill-designed scoring method in the NHL incentivizes the teams to reach overtimes in matches against rivals from the other conference. In this paper, I find a statistically significant higher percentage of matches that go into overtime against rivals from the other conference than the percentage of matches that go into overtime against rivals from the same conference for two NHL teams. From the economic aspect, the behavior of those two teams is rational. All the other teams in the league may not maximize their chances to qualify to the playoffs, but their behavior is in line with the “Fair-Play” principle.","PeriodicalId":365298,"journal":{"name":"CSN: Business (Topic)","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CSN: Business (Topic)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3013684","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The ill-designed scoring method in the NHL incentivizes the teams to reach overtimes in matches against rivals from the other conference. In this paper, I find a statistically significant higher percentage of matches that go into overtime against rivals from the other conference than the percentage of matches that go into overtime against rivals from the same conference for two NHL teams. From the economic aspect, the behavior of those two teams is rational. All the other teams in the league may not maximize their chances to qualify to the playoffs, but their behavior is in line with the “Fair-Play” principle.
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