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Strategic rule breaking: Time wasting to win soccer games


Autoři: Henrich R. Greve aff001;  Nils Rudi aff002;  Anup Walvekar aff003
Působiště autorů: INSEAD, Singapore, Singapore aff001;  Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT, United States of America aff002;  National University of Singapore Business School, Singapore, Singapore aff003
Vyšlo v časopise: PLoS ONE 14(12)
Kategorie: Research Article
prolekare.web.journal.doi_sk: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224150

Souhrn

Rules regulate behavior, but in competitive contexts they also create incentives for rule-breaking because enforcement is imperfect. Sports is a prime example of this, and one that lends itself well to investigation because strategic rule-breaking is often measurable. Professional soccer is a highly competitive team sport with economic rewards for winning given to teams and players. It has a set of rules to ensure fair play, but the enforcement is incomplete, and hence can lead to strategic behavior. Using newly available data, we examine strategic time-wasting, a behavior that help teams win games, or tie games against superior opponents, but is contrary to the objective of game play as entertainment for the spectators. We demonstrate that strategic time-wasting is widespread and is done through delayed restart of the game after goalie capture of the ball, goal kick, throw-in, free kick, corner kick, and substitution. The strategic time-wasting has substantial magnitude, and models of the value per minute predict time-wasting well. Because this time-wasting is a result of incentives created by not stopping the game clock, we predict that a change to rules with stopped game clock when the play is stopped would make game play more time efficient.

Klíčová slova:

Sports – Games – Decision making – Law enforcement – Gambling – Behavioral economics – Cognitive heuristics


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