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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Playoff"”.
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The Effects of Changes in Major League Baseball Playoff Format: End of Season Attendance
… (MLB) games as a result of the additional playoff round added by the MLB in 2012. Adding another round to the playoffs increases the number of teams qualifying for the playoffs from eight teams to ten teams. More teams towards the end of the season will be in the playoff race than prior to …
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Manufacturing the Mythology of "Be-Leaf": A Thematic Analysis of 2017 Playoff Coverage in the Toronto Star
… Star coverage of the Toronto Maple Leafs 2017 playoff run. Through a hybrid method combining critical discourse and content analysis, the research seeks to identify themes and Maple Leaf myths that the Star promotes and perpetuates, and how those myths support a massive brand public. The …
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Keep Your Eye on the Game: The Impact of Distraction and Scoreboard Watching during Major League Baseball Playoff Races
… the probability of winning a game, especially in playoff races. Specifically, teams in a playoff race had a 0.158 lower probability of winning games when the division leader won its game the previous day. Consistent with distraction theory, the analysis also shows that the distraction effects are …
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Modelling Outcomes in Canadian Professional Football via Generalized Bradley-Terry Models
… are performance-tested against post-season playoff game outcomes to relatively assess their prospective usefulness. i
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Shut Up and Dribble? Exploring the Real Estate Strategies and Trends of NBA Teams
… play their 41 home games in (plus any subsequent playoff games). But now, NBA teams have evolved past only just thinking about the arena. Teams have increasingly gotten involved in real estate development. This thesis seeks to explore the impact of real estate as a revenue driver for NBA teams, …
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Sublime Underdogs
… on the eve of the Kansas City Royals’ first playoff berth in 30 years only to discover one of them has gone blind and the other is a recovering alcoholic. The narrators in these stories are frequently unreliable and perhaps unlikeable, but they are always honest (to the best of their …
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Competitive balance in complex professional sports leagues
… multiprize tournaments,with host-season playoffs and often open merit hierarchies with promotion und relegation. A new concept of competitive intensity is introduced. The three-dimensional approach is applied to the empirical analysis of competitive balance in European (association) …
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TO WHAT EXTENT IS THE SAFETY OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL STUDENT-ATHLETES COMPROMISED BY PLAYING GUARANTEE GAMES AGAINST SUPERIOR OPPONENTS?
… top four teams compete in the College Football Playoff (CFP). The Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) is the division made up by teams directly beneath the FBS schools at the NCAA Division I level. FCS teams have fewer scholarships to give and rarely play televised games. They compete for a …
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The development of an enhanced autoignition sub-model for use in CFD combustion simulations
… air/fuel ratio. These effects were shown to playoff against each other - the centre of the droplet being coldest and hence yielding a longer ignition delay while, at the same time, the high equivalence ratio near the centre had the effect of shortening the ignition delay. Using a simple, two …
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Essays in labor economics
… in which these odds are fixed. Since 1968, playoff-eliminated teams have seen around a 5 percentage point increase in win percentage once their lottery odds are fixed. This difference has ballooned above 10 percentage points in more recent years.