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Do Fans Matter? The Effect of Attendance on the Outcomes of Major League Baseball Games
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Smith, Erin E. Groetzinger, Jon D. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | We examine the role of attendance in home-field advantage for Major League Baseball, using a dataset of all MLB games played from 1996 to 2005. Using two-stage least squares, we find that attendance has a significant effect on the home-field advantage. Our results indicate that a one standard deviation increase in attendance results in a 4% increase in the likelihood of a home team win. We also find that if attendance as a percent of stadium capacity were to increase by 48%, we would expect the home team's run differential to increase by one run. We show that the additional home-field advantage is driven by increased home team performance. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.2202/1559-0410.1192 |
| Volume Number | 6 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1192&context=jqas |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.erinesmith.com/DoFansMatter.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.2202/1559-0410.1192 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
