Incentives to lose revisited: The NHL and its tournament incentives
Abstract
This paper analyzes data from a tournament, namely the National Hockey League regular scheduled season of games, which provides incentives to increase effort in order to reach the playoffs and incentives to decrease effort once a team has been eliminated from playoff considerations because of the entry draft. Our results show that teams react to these dual incentives - they win more games when there is still a chance to reach the playoffs and...
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Title
Incentives to lose revisited: The NHL and its tournament incentives
Published Date
Dec 1, 2019
Volume
75
Pages
102088 - 102088
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