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Keywords
National Basketball Association; playoffs; entropy; competitive balance; uncertainty-of-outcome hypothesis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D47 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Market Design
- D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
- Z20 - Other Special Topics - - Sports Economics - - - General
- Z21 - Other Special Topics - - Sports Economics - - - Industry Studies
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