Exploring entertainment utility from football games

Tim Pawlowski; Dooruj Rambaccussing; Philip Ramirez; James Reade; Giambattista Rossi

Exploring entertainment utility from football games

Tim Pawlowski (Lead / Corresponding author)
, Dooruj Rambaccussing
, Philip Ramirez
, James Reade
, Giambattista Rossi

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Abstract

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 participants involved in an event. By analyzing 19m 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 desireable 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.

Original language	English
Publisher	Social Science Research Network
Number of pages	31
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2023

Keywords

suspense
Surprise
entertainment utility
football
tweets

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
Economics and Econometrics
Finance

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