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Do players in NHL play better in their contract year season?
Weber, Vít ; Hronza, Martin (advisor) ; Babin, Jan (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines wheather or not the attackers in NHL occurs strategic behavior called shirking. To verification the thesis anylizes the efekt of contract year to points per game in the competition. The data are obtained for seasons 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013. Effect of the depandence of contract year to player points per game is captured by the independent dummy variable CON. The estimation method ordinary least squares is used. After detecting presence of heteroskedasticity model is estimates with method of heteroscedasticity corrected standart errors. The coeficient results indicates that the attackers in NHL increase their points per game for 0,02 in contract year ceteris paribus.

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