Determinants of Attendance in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League: Role of Winning, Scoring, And Fighting (Report‪)‬

Introduction The economic study of sports, once thought to be confined to antitrust law and labor contracts, took on a much different context after the introduction of Sportometrics by Goff and Tollison (1990). Economists now routinely study sports as a laboratory of general economic behavior by investigating the actions of players, coaches, referees, general managers, and team owners. Topics such as individual and managerial incentives, the organizational behavior, income distribution, competitive structure, and the efficient markets hypothesis were studied with sport-specific and general economic insights and conclusions obtained. An additional group which can also be examined through Sportometrics-style studies is consumers of sports; the fans themselves. Estimating consumer demand for sports is important to the overall business of sports and to the individual teams and leagues involved. Major and minor league sports have been investigated to attempt to determine what factors attract fans to spend their disposable income on sports-related entertainment.