The Impact of Mid-season Super-Star Trades on NBA Attendance
Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Major
Mechanical Engineering
Research Advisor
Davis, Michael C.
Advisor's Department
Economics
Abstract
The instinctive response that comes from teams trading away their superstar is agony and displeasure from fans of the team, the NBA is no exception. Since fans are furious about teams trading away a star player, seeing this as an act of tanking for a better draft pick and preparing for the next season, it is intuitive to think that the fan attendance after the trade would diminish because of the trade. However, through linear regression analysis of four NBA teams using common independent variables associated with fan attendance, the effect of trading away their superstar player showed too small of a significance to have any effect on fan attendance, which would suggest the drop in attendance after a team trades away their superstar is not necessarily because of the trade.
Biography
Joseph Louis Volpe is a student majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Economics at Missouri S&T.
Research Category
Social Sciences
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation
Document Type
Presentation
Award
Social Sciences oral presentation, Third place
Location
Meramec Room
Presentation Date
15 Apr 2015, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
The Impact of Mid-season Super-Star Trades on NBA Attendance
Meramec Room
The instinctive response that comes from teams trading away their superstar is agony and displeasure from fans of the team, the NBA is no exception. Since fans are furious about teams trading away a star player, seeing this as an act of tanking for a better draft pick and preparing for the next season, it is intuitive to think that the fan attendance after the trade would diminish because of the trade. However, through linear regression analysis of four NBA teams using common independent variables associated with fan attendance, the effect of trading away their superstar player showed too small of a significance to have any effect on fan attendance, which would suggest the drop in attendance after a team trades away their superstar is not necessarily because of the trade.
