Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.serev.2025.100058
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.serev.2025.100053
Jeffrey Cisyk , Pascal Courty , Amin Kouhbor
We examine the impact of match-specific monetary incentives on match outcome and team behavior in the English Premier League. Our findings reveal that higher financial stakes increase the likelihood of a team winning a match while also encouraging more aggressive play: a £1M increase in the expected award from winning a game raises the probability of winning by 1.1 percentage points and results in an expected rise of 0.07 fouls per game. Teams adapt to financial incentives to maximize success in high-stakes games. These results help sports organizations understand the trade-offs in mitigating misconduct while preserving the competitive intensity of the game.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.serev.2025.100054
Daniel Ackerberg , Douglas J. Hodgson
In creative fields, supply is often thought to precede demand, rather than reacting to it, the source of Richard Caves’ influential “nobody knows” property, which is especially strong at points of significant stylistic change. Producers compete to promote new work, often through polemics that demarcate new styles from predominant ones by assigning new meanings to historical styles that are held to possess important meanings that are revived in the new style. This retrospective revaluation of past styles, “reputational entrepreneurship”, is meant to influence preferences of consumers (and thus demand), the efficacity of which may be measurable in some cases; for example, golf course architecture, where periodic magazine rankings of golf courses exist. We empirically evaluate the efficacity of a polemic advanced in the early 1990s by young architects (entrepreneurs in the reputational and professional senses) seeking to advance the reputation of pre-war relative to post-war architecture. We measure changes in consensus judgments through changes in biannual magazine rankings of the 100 Greatest Courses in the United States, and find that the rankings evolved in favor of pre-war as opposed to post-war (1945–1985) courses. We situate our analysis with reference to developments in the golf industry, discursive consecration of specific ideals as to the character of golf itself, and the propagation of the latter via appeals to social distinction. We relate our results to a Bourdieusian model of interdependence of demand and supply in creative fields undergoing major change, as well as to the literature on related questions in the field of conventional architecture, especially the triumph of Postmodernism.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-21DOI: 10.1016/j.serev.2025.100052
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Pub Date : 2025-04-21DOI: 10.1016/j.serev.2025.100051
Jan C. van Ours
Team performance depends not only on the individual abilities of its members and cooperation between them but also on psychological factors such as confidence, rivalry, and perceived pressure. In a regular work environment, it is challenging to isolate the contribution of psychological factors. Analyzing sports data can be insightful, as performance metrics are widely available. This paper focuses on two phenomena that highlight the impact of psychological factors: bogey teams and circular triads. A “bogey team” refers to a team that consistently outperforms another team, often defying expectations. Circular triads involve non-transitive match outcomes among trios of teams. Using balanced panel data from the top league of Dutch football, the analysis identifies both bogey team relationships and circular triads in match outcomes. Clearly, psychological factors play a significant role in shaping team performance.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.serev.2025.100050
Aafko Boonstra, Ronald Meester
We develop a statistical framework to evaluate evidence of alleged cheating involving illegal signaling in sports from a forensic perspective. We explain why, instead of a frequentist procedure, a Bayesian approach is called for. We apply this framework to cases of alleged cheating in professional bridge and professional baseball. The diversity of these applications illustrates the generality of the method.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1016/j.serev.2025.100049
Ray C. Fair
This paper uses world records by age in running, swimming, and rowing to estimate a biological frontier of decline rates for both men and women. Decline rates are assumed to be linear in percent terms up to a certain age and then quadratic after that, where the transition age is estimated. The use of world records avoids the possible problem of survivor bias in a sample.
The decline rates are smallest for rowing, followed by swimming and then running. Decline rates for women are roughly the same as those for men for the swimming events. They are slightly larger for the rowing events. They are largest for running. The age at which there is a 50 percent decline from age 30 ranges from 70 to 89, an optimistic result for humans. Ten year decline rates from age 40 to about the mid 60's are about 10 percent for running and 5 percent for swimming and rowing.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1016/j.serev.2025.100048
Carina Steckenleiter
This paper provides an overview of the literature on effects of physical activity on cognition for children and adolescents. Aimed as a starting point into this active research field, it guides the interested reader from core concepts, a summary of research findings to characteristics of successful programs as well as barriers and motives for participation.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1016/j.serev.2025.100047
Alperen Kocsoy
This study introduces ball-in-play time as a novel variable to assess potential referee bias in football concerning additional time decisions. The study begins by calculating the expected additional times using ball-in-play data. Hence, any systematic difference between actual and expected additional time can be considered ‘bias’ if the difference depends on the winner. By using matches played behind closed doors during the Covid-19 pandemic as a natural experiment, the analysis reveals a trend that referees exhibit a bias towards home teams, but crucially, only in the presence of fans. This suggests that social pressure exerted by fans significantly influences individuals’ decisions. Moreover, the magnitude of this bias increases with crowd size. Then, the study examines the post-pandemic period, exploring whether referees adjusted to a more impartial stance due to their experience during matches played behind closed doors. The propensity to favour home teams remains prevalent once fans return to the stadiums. Furthermore, the study shows no significant association between referee experience or quality and referee bias. The study concludes with a recommendation to mitigate the bias.
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