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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"leagues"”.
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Competitive balance in complex professional sports leagues
… crucial to the viability of professional sports leagues, and it has been a central concern of sports economists, industry practitioners and fans. But the concept is complex and ill-defined. The theoretical approach in this thesis is to first analyse competitive balance in a simple league context. …
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Does Decertification Work? Outcome Analysis of the National Football Leagues Negotiated Order (1986-2008).
<p>For decades, union membership and activity has been declining in North America; employers have demanded greater flexibility and have successfully weakened workplace and worker protections. Modern workers increasingly use alternative strategies to negotiate conditions of employment with managers …
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Pilot study into knowledge and confidence of sports trainers in community level Australian rules football leagues
… two Melbourne metropolitan community level ARF leagues (65 clubs) via post. Sports trainers were invited to provide details of qualifications, injury recording and club rules for injuries, Trainers were also questioned on their responses to injury scenarios and their confidence in dealing with …
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Effectiveness of Spatial-temporal Data Using GIS in America’s Professional Sports Leagues (MLS, MLB, and NFL)
… field advantage (HFA) in professional sports leagues in the United States. The literature related to the HFA conceptual framework and the game location factor—which represents four major impacts on teams (crowd, learning, travel, and rules)—led to an investigation into whether a relationship …
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Amateur baseball players: what are the relative merits of attending college versus going directly to the minor leagues?
… shortened the time to reach the Major Leagues, while both education and on-the-job training did not significantly affect the offensive performance as measured by five commonly used measures: batting average (AVG) runs batted in (RBI), on base percentage (OBP), slugging (SLG), and on …
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‘Will you walk into our parlour?’: The rise of leagues and their impact on the governance of women’s hockey in England 1895-1939
… which banned its members from taking part in leagues or playing for cups. The uneasy and constantly evolving relationship between those who wished to uphold these amateur ideals and those who wished to compete for points and prizes will be examined over three decades up to 1939. This thesis …
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Luck and skill in professional League of Legends (E-sports)
… This study uses the most developed e-sport leagues, found in the game League of Legends (LoL), to examine early efforts at crafting such environments. The use of "winning persistence" and Bayesian statistical analyses reveal that best-of-one matches in LoL demonstrate an overall luck-skill …
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Leadership in Youth Baseball: Awareness of Health & Safety Issues
… and attempt to determine if these youth baseball leagues are implementing required and recommended standards to ensure the health and safety of all players. </p><p> The research design was quantitative and included youth baseball directors that were involved with either Little League Baseball or …
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Who makes the game? Examining private ownership in professional sports
… in the major North American professional sports leagues. Despite drawbacks that are apparent to players, fans, media, and scholars, private ownership has been taken for granted as the natural way of organizing professional sport. This analysis argues that private ownership became the norm as the …
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The Game They All Played: Chicago Baseball, 1876-1906
… the birth of both the National and American Leagues, and the zenith of the city's control and devotion to baseball, the 1906 World Series. The sport attracted players and fans from the growing immigrant population, laborers from factories, white-collar employees of the downtown business …
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"""A New Heaven and Earth"": Feminism, Religion and the Politics of Identity in Britain, 1901-1918"
… through a close study of five religious suffrage leagues. These leagues were unique to Britain and represented the Anglican, Catholic, Free Church, Quaker and Jewish faiths. The final chapter examines the intersections of religion, gender identity and national culture within the context of World …
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The Encomienda in the Philippines: The Dawn of Spanish Colonialism
… | "an imaginary demarcation line he drawn 100 leagues west of the Azores and the Cape Verde Islands; that Spain could claim all lands found or to he found West and South of the demarcation line towards the Indies, provided they had not been occupied by any other Christian prince." | The Bull …
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Motivating Factors Influencing Spectator Attendance At Professional Soccer Events in Brazil
… sport spectator profiles of attendees at both leagues, the interaction between fans' sport spectator profile and the factors motivating attendance at both leagues, the self-reported motivating factors of sport spectators attending both leagues, and the self-reported Stadium Improvements that …
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Tee-Ball
… baseball skills than boys playing in the Atom Leagues; and as a result of the greater number of opportunities to learn, Tee-ball would result in greater improvement than would Atom ball over one season.
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Sports and the Future of Streaming Television: A Study of the Value Sports Content Adds to Streaming Services
… sports with passionate fanbases. Meanwhile, leagues that lacked their own hardcore fanbases provided little to their host services beyond filler for users to watch in between more interesting sports. The results of this study provide valuable information for both the academic and professional …
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Sports and media relations: an assessment by sports journalists regarding public relations professionals of professional sports teams effectively controlling the flow of information
… who cover the four main professional sports leagues, namely the NHL, MLB, NBA and MLB. Results show that most beat reporters believe that the PR professionals of the teams they cover effectively control the flow of information.
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Soccer : physical characteristics, physical demands of match-play and effective physical conditioning
… of Elite Soccer Players from four European Leagues For many sports, there are specific physical characteristics that indicate suitability for, or potential to compete in that sport at the highest level. Various anthropometric characteristics of athletes have been shown to be reasonable …
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European betting market efficiency and the frequency of draws in association football
… the betting market efficiency of the top eleven leagues in Europe for eight respective seasons starting from the campaign of 2005-06 till the season of 2012-13. An analysis of the ‘1X2’ market and the ‘Over/Under 2.5 goals’ market, using the average odds, is made in an effort to search for any …
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Merging Identities: A Glimpse into the World of Albert Wicker, An African American Leader in New Orleans, 1893-1928
… companies, benevolent societies, and educational leagues to achieve his personal and professional goals. The networks created by him and others along the way illustrate not only complexity of black life in New Orleans but also the growing tendency of differing ethnic groups to work together to …
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The use of recovery methods by professional soccer teams in South Africa
… exist between teams in South African soccer leagues. Monitoring the implementation of recovery methods by each team presents a significant challenge. The purpose of the present study is to describe the recovery methods, frequency of use, barriers to implementation and factors influencing …
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