Záznamy o publikaci.
Autor | Michal Friesl, Jan Libich, Petr Stehlík |
Název | Fixing ice hockey's low scoring flip side? Just flip the sides |
Vydáno | Annals of Operations Research 292 (2020), no. 1, 27--45 |
ISSN | 0254-5330 |
Abstract | The global sports industry is extremely competitive. We focus on ice
hockey and propose a (largely) costless reform to its operations that
can potentially enhance the sport's popularity by increasing the number
of goals. The reform optimizes a logistic convention on the use of
on-ice sides and off-ice benches, which affects the amount of attacking
play and within-game scoring dynamics through the players'
substitutions. Using several empirical approaches, we provide estimates
of the resulting scoring rise for all 11 geographically diverse
competitions in our unique dataset. They are sizeable and robust to a
number of checks, making case for trialling the reform in some
(lower-tier) ice-hockey league. |
Keywords | ice hockey, sport, discrete choice models, scoring dynamics
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