Fariba Askarian; Naser Dokhtbagher
Volume 2, Issue 4 , March 2016, , Pages 87-100
Abstract
Hosting in team sports has an important role in determining the outcome of a game. This research aims to address the influence of hosting on the performance of teams in Iran's Premiere League. The current research is of analytical- descriptive type as has been conducted ...
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Hosting in team sports has an important role in determining the outcome of a game. This research aims to address the influence of hosting on the performance of teams in Iran's Premiere League. The current research is of analytical- descriptive type as has been conducted as a field study. The data acquisition was done with the library method. The statistical population and sample are equal and include 23 teams of Iran's Premiere League during 2007-2008, 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 seasons. To analyze the data, kolmogorov test, single-variable regression and Multiple regression were used. Multiple regression analysis indicated that, Home game score (0.996), Number of failures in home games (0.742) and Number of conceded goals in home games (-0.437), were determined as the strongest predicators of factors influencing sportive performance of football teams in premier league. According to the results, it can conclude that the increasing of home game score, decreasing of number of failures in home games and decreasing of conceded goals in home games, have effect on improvement performance of Iran football teams in premier league. In a nutshell, the results indicate that hosting have a noticeable effect on the efficacy of the teams in Iran's Premiere League.
Fariba Askarian; Naser Dokhtbagher
Volume 2, Issue 2 , August 2015, , Pages 11-18
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Based upon conflicting of economic, social, cultural, and ecological indices role on sports medals, this study was conducted to identify influential factors of countries performance in Olympics games. The present study was performed as a descriptive-analytical field design during 2000, 2004, 2008 to ...
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Based upon conflicting of economic, social, cultural, and ecological indices role on sports medals, this study was conducted to identify influential factors of countries performance in Olympics games. The present study was performed as a descriptive-analytical field design during 2000, 2004, 2008 to 2012. The statistical sample was equal to population and consisted of 297 the countries . The number of medals was determined as the sport performance of each Country. The Data of Gross Domestic production (GDP), population, life expectancy (LE), Convoy size and Hosting were determined by a questionnaire. The normal data was analyzed by the multiple regression method at α≤ 0.05. Convoy size (t=-1.764, p=0.049), life expectancy (t=2.277, p=0.010) and population () in interaction together have effect on the championship sport performance. According to the results, it can conclude that the increase of Convoy size, Obtaining hosting and improve health indicators (life expectancy) have effect on improvement the Sport performance of countries. Therefore, the essential planning is recommended to improve the influential factors and eliminate impediments of sports performance in international fields.
Fariba Askarian; Naser dokhtbagher; Sajjad Amani
Volume 1, Issue 4 , January 2015, , Pages 45-56
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This study aims Analyze the competitive balance of Iran Futsal league and compare with Portugal, Italy, Czech, Slovenia, Russia, France, Spain, Ukraine, Netherlands, Romania and Croatia Futsal leagues in 2012-2013. This study uses secondary data obtained from the last tables of the Futsal leagues of ...
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This study aims Analyze the competitive balance of Iran Futsal league and compare with Portugal, Italy, Czech, Slovenia, Russia, France, Spain, Ukraine, Netherlands, Romania and Croatia Futsal leagues in 2012-2013. This study uses secondary data obtained from the last tables of the Futsal leagues of the selected countries. For data analysis, the two indices of the five-club Concentration Ratio (C5) and the C5 Index of Competitive Balance (C5ICB) are used. Also the results indicated that based on C5ICB index, the highest and the lowest balances were respectively: Ukraine (118/79), Italy (121/94), Croatia (128), Netherlands (135/45), Iran (144/69), Russia (145/46), Czech (146/25), Romania (152/84), Spain (153) and Portugal (156/39). Thus, the leagues of Ukraine and Italy have the highest, and that of Portugal, the lowest balance among the leagues investigated in this study. A more appealing competition results in more ticket selling, lots of investing on TV broadcast and better sponsorship. All mentioned advantages cause to hold league competitions with high quality. Organizations in responsible of holding league must create conditions to increase competition among teams of league to benefit more appeal, spectators and ticket selling.
