Moments of Competitive Balance in Major League Soccer

2021 ◽  
pp. 152700252110510
Author(s):  
Hojun Sung ◽  
Brian M. Mills ◽  
Younghoon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Balance ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
Past Work ◽  
Major League Soccer ◽  
Major League ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Talent Acquisition

In this paper, we investigate competitive balance in Major League Soccer and compare balance across talent acquisition policy regimes with a bias-corrected measure from 1996 to 2019. We evaluate multiple moments of the league talent distribution, and we add to past work by using multiple levels of aggregation that reveal heterogeneous results with respect to the distribution of talent within and across seasons. We show that there has been little improvement in competitive balance over the league's history, though there has been an increase in year-to-year stability in balance and a lower propensity for teams at the extremes of performance.

A Prospective Analysis of Competitive Balance Levels in Major League Soccer

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez ◽  
Julio del Corral ◽  
R. Todd Jewell ◽  
Jorge García-Unanue ◽  
Cornel Nesseler
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Analysis ◽  
Competitive Balance ◽  
Major League Soccer ◽  
Major League

Financial Returns in Major League Soccer

2021 ◽  
pp. 152700252110227
Author(s):  
John Charles Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
North American ◽  
Consumer Demand ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Soccer ◽  
Major League Soccer ◽  
Major League ◽  
Sports Leagues

Major League Soccer (MLS) is the top-tier professional soccer league serving the United States and Canada. This study examines factors hypothesized to impact consumer demand for professional sports on team revenue in this nascent league. The estimates are consistent with positive returns to performance, novelty effects from newer teams, and varying impacts from roster quality and composition. Other factors hypothesized to be important for MLS teams (e.g., stadium quality and market demographics) are not associated with team revenue. The estimates are similar to findings in other major North American sports leagues, even though MLS operates with a unique single-entity ownership structure that has the potential to disincentivize individual team investments by league owners.

Financing Major League Facilities: Status, Evolution and Conflicting Forces

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Crompton ◽  
Dennis R. Howard ◽  
Turgut var
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Sports Facilities ◽  
Competitive Balance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Subsidy ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Major League ◽  
Total Investment

This paper identifies the pervasiveness, magnitude, and trends of public investment in major league sports facilities and describes the forces that typically direct and dictate the debate. In 2003 dollars, the total investment in facilities currently being used by franchises in the four major leagues in North America is almost $24 billion, of which over $15 billion was contributed by public entities. Four eras of funding these facilities are identified and described: the Gestation Era 1961-1969; the Public Subsidy Era 1970-1984; the Transitional (Public-Private Partnership) Era 1985-1994; and the Fully-Loaded (Private-Public Partnership) Era post 1994. There is a consistent trend of private contributions increasing across these eras, but public sector contributions remain substantial. The final section of the paper discusses the four primary sources of momentum undergirding this public investment: owner leverage, the community power structure, the stimulus of increasing costs, and the competitive balance rationale.

Returns to Stardom: Evidence From U.S. Major League Soccer

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 567-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd H. Kuethe ◽  
Mesbah Motamed
Keyword(s):  
Major League Soccer ◽  
Major League

Major League Soccer

2017 ◽  
pp. 177-215
Author(s):  
Frank P. Jozsa
Keyword(s):  
Major League Soccer ◽  
Major League
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