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How Do Outside Experts Evaluate Team Performance? An Empirical Analysis of Harris Poll Voting Behavior
Author(s) -
Brook Stacey L.,
Gai Xiaomin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
managerial and decision economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-1468
pISSN - 0143-6570
DOI - 10.1002/mde.3205
Subject(s) - voting , championship , psychology , college football , football , quality (philosophy) , affect (linguistics) , football team , social psychology , applied psychology , advertising , political science , business , law , politics , philosophy , epistemology , communication
How do outside experts evaluate different group performance? Using Harris Poll voter behavior for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Football Bowl Subdivision teams under the previous Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system, we created a model of voter behavior and found that team performance and team quality affect voting behavior, but not equally. We further investigated these voting differences and found that Harris Poll voters view some conferences more favorably than others. Before drawing a conclusion of discrimination, we also investigated whether differing non‐conference team performance was statistically different and found supporting evidence that different conferences perform at differing levels.