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. 2022 Feb 15:41:107952.
doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.107952. eCollection 2022 Apr.

Dataset on PGA Tour tournament entry

Inés Alegre  1 , Miguel A Canela  1 , David Pastoriza  2
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Dataset on PGA Tour tournament entry

Inés Alegre et al. Data Brief. .

Abstract

This article describes a dataset that allows to explore the determinants and moderators of athletes' decision to enter in tournaments endowed with a monetary prize. Specifically, the dataset contains variables that describe athlete's short-term momentum (i.e., performance streak in the tournaments recently entered) and long-term momentum (i.e., performance streak in the same tournament across seasons), which permits an in-depth analysis of how past performance trajectory drives self-selection into tournaments. The dataset consists of 54,915 self-selection decisions that golfers have taken over an eleven-year period (1996-2006) when deciding to participate in PGA Tour tournaments.

Keywords: Golf; Heuristics; Momentum; PGA Tour; Self-selection; Tournaments.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships which have or could be perceived to have influenced the work reported in this article.

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Frequency of positive within-season momentum.
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Frequency of negative within-season momentum.
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Frequency of positive across-season momentum.
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Frequency of negative across-season momentum.
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