TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring entertainment utility from football games
AU - Pawlowski, Tim
AU - Rambaccussing, Dooruj
AU - Ramirez, Philip
AU - Reade, J. James
AU - Rossi, Giambattista
N1 - Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2024/7
Y1 - 2024/7
N2 - Previous research exploring the role of belief dynamics for consumers in the entertainment industry has largely ignored the fact that emotional reactions are a function of the content and a consumer’s disposition towards certain protagonists. By analyzing 19 m tweets in combination with in-play information for 380 football matches played in the English Premier League we contribute to the literature in three ways. First, we present a setting for testing how belief dynamics drive behavior which is characterized by several desirable features for empirical research. Second, we present an approach for detecting fans and haters of a club as well as neutrals via sentiment revealed in Tweets. Third, by looking at behavioral responses to the temporal resolution of uncertainty during a game, we offer a fine-grained empirical test for the popular uncertainty-of-outcome hypothesis in sports.
AB - Previous research exploring the role of belief dynamics for consumers in the entertainment industry has largely ignored the fact that emotional reactions are a function of the content and a consumer’s disposition towards certain protagonists. By analyzing 19 m tweets in combination with in-play information for 380 football matches played in the English Premier League we contribute to the literature in three ways. First, we present a setting for testing how belief dynamics drive behavior which is characterized by several desirable features for empirical research. Second, we present an approach for detecting fans and haters of a club as well as neutrals via sentiment revealed in Tweets. Third, by looking at behavioral responses to the temporal resolution of uncertainty during a game, we offer a fine-grained empirical test for the popular uncertainty-of-outcome hypothesis in sports.
KW - Suspense
KW - Surprise
KW - Entertainment utility
KW - football
KW - Tweets
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85193951913&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.04.018
DO - 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.04.018
M3 - Article
SN - 0167-2681
VL - 223
SP - 185
EP - 198
JO - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
JF - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
ER -