Article Does Performance Consistency Pay Off Financially for Players? Evidence From

The purpose of the current study is to investigate how consistency of professional soccer players ’ performance affects salaries in the German Bundesliga. Using game-level data for five consecutive seasons (n 34,413 player–match day observations), we find empirical evidence for a salary premium to players showing volatility in perfor-mance. Applying ordinary least squares, fixed-effects as well as quantile regression analyses, this effect remains robust