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Sports Analytics and Performance

Sports Analytics and Performance is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the economics of professional sports, including topics such as prediction markets, competitive balance, referee bias, home advantage, superstar effects, labor market dynamics, the gambler’s fallacy, revenue sharing, and market efficiency in the context of sporting contests.

  • Prediction Markets
  • Competitive Balance
  • Referee Bias
  • Home Advantage
  • Superstar Effects
  • Labor Market
  • Gambler’s Fallacy
  • Sporting Contests
  • Revenue Sharing
  • Market Efficiency
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+29%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
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