In search of goals: increasing ice hockey's attractiveness by a sides swap
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/49777513:23520/17:43932154
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41274-017-0243-2" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41274-017-0243-2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41274-017-0243-2" target="_blank" >10.1057/s41274-017-0243-2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
In search of goals: increasing ice hockey's attractiveness by a sides swap
Original language description
The popularity and business impact of major sports have been growing globally over time. This paper focuses on ice hockey, specifically the National Hockey League in North America. It reports a striking irregularity in ice hockey's scoring dynamics relative to comparable sports such as soccer and rugby, namely a scoring surge in the middle section of the game. We explore an explanation for this irregularity related to the convention on the spatial location of the teams' benches (which are fixed throughout the game) and on-ice sides (which are switched every period). Because a large number of the players' substitutions occur while the play is in progress, this convention determines the distance forwards and defenders need to travel to make a substitution, and thus indirectly substitution strategies and scoring. We consider two simple operational changes that could increase the number of goals in the NHL by approximately 5 and 10%, respectively, corresponding to roughly 350 and 700 additional goals each season. This would partly offset the current downward scoring trend and thus enhance the game's attractiveness. The estimated impact of the proposed reforms, one of which is largely costless, is robust across several specifications-using per-minute and per-second scoring data and controlling for various factors, such as bookmakers' odds.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of the Operational Research Society
ISSN
0160-5682
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
68
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
1006-1018
UT code for WoS article
000408029600003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85020635374