%0 Journal Article %T Optimal Team Contests to Induce More Efforts %A Dongryul Lee %A Joon Song %J Journal of Sports Economics %@ 1552-7794 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/1527002518771443 %X We show that, if the team sports designer puts more weight on the performance of high-ability members (e.g., star players) than on low-ability members, the designer encourages the low-ability member to free ride on the high-ability members so that the high-ability members exert even greater efforts. Thus, the designerĄ¯s choice approximates the best shot team contest. With more weight on the low-ability memberĄ¯s performance, the choice approximates the weakest link team contest to undermine the free riding. The approximations work better with more convex effort cost function and/or smaller heterogeneity of group members %K group contest %K team sports %K contest design %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1527002518771443