The Big Mo ("Big Momentum") is behavioral momentum that operates on a large scale. The concept originally applied to sporting events in the 1960s in the United States, as momentum appeared to have an effect on a team's performance. Successful teams were said to have "The Big Mo" on their side. This has since extended situations in which momentum is a driving factor, such as during political campaigns, social upheavals, economic cycles, and financial bubbles.
20-477: [REDACTED] Look up winning streak in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Winning Streak may refer to: Winning streak , an uninterrupted sequence of success in a game, sport, or other endeavor Winning Streak (film) , a 2012 Spanish comedy-drama film Winning Streak (American game show) Winning Streak (Irish game show) "Winning Streak",
40-459: A win streak or hot streak , is an uninterrupted sequence of success in games or competitions , commonly measured by at least three wins that are uninterrupted by losses or ties . In sports , it can be applied to teams , and individuals . In sports where teams or individuals represent groups such as countries or regions, those groups can also be said to have winning streaks if their representatives win consecutive games or competitions, even if
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80-472: A certain way, and resist change, is dependent on the type of reinforcement they receive. The team developed a method for calculating the impact of behavioural momentum, based on the Newtonian formula: Δ V = f / m , in which Δ V is the change in velocity or, in behavioural terms, response rate; Velocity ( V ) refers to the response rate; mass ( m ) refers to the response strength, and force ( f ) refers to
100-480: A few star players, the team can suffer if the player has a bad game, or if they play a turn-taking sport such as baseball . The longest (in terms of time) recorded winning streak in any professional sports is Spain 's Antoni Bou , having won 34 consecutive FIM Trial World Championship (17 outdoor and 17 indoor) between 2007 and 2023 (as of January 2024, he is still active in the sport). Pakistan 's Jahangir Khan 's 555 consecutive wins in squash from 1981 to 1986
120-541: A massive scale. In January 2011, a report in The Economist magazine, titled "The Big Mo", said, The momentum effect drives a juggernaut through one of the tenets of finance theory, the efficient-market hypothesis ... Even the high priests of efficient-market theory have acknowledged [its impact]. Well-paid fund managers have spent decades trying to find ways to beat the market. But you have to wonder why they bother devoting so much money and effort to researching
140-401: A matter of random chance. A team with low ability is more likely to lose frequently, and a team with high ability is more likely to win, but once ability is controlled for, there is no evidence that a "winning" or "losing" streak affects the result of the match. One study of European association football matches using a Monte Carlo methodology found that, once ability was accounted for, a team
160-465: A win nor a loss, as in association football . Unbeaten streaks are still considered significant achievements and their length may be compared directly to winning streaks. It is possible to achieve both an unbeaten streak and a winless streak , with an all-ties record. Most quantitative studies of winning and losing streaks, and the associated concept of psychological momentum , have failed to find any evidence that "streaks" actually exist, except as
180-674: Is also of significant note. In 2013, the Dutch wheelchair tennis player Esther Vergeer retired with an active 10-year-long winning streak of 470 matches, including a streak of 250 consecutive sets won. The Big Mo The term was used by George H. W. Bush during his quest for the Republican nomination to run for President in 1980 . After he won the Iowa caucuses , and was facing further contests, Bush Senior said: "Now they will be after me, howling and yowling at my heels. What we will have
200-575: Is momentum. We will look forward to Big Mo being on our side, as they say in athletics." Eventually, Bush lost to Ronald Reagan who went on to become the 40th President of the United States, with Bush as his Vice President. Research conducted in 2005, by Christopher Hull at Georgetown University , US, suggested that from 1980 to 2000, "Big Mo" (large scale momentum) had amplified key events in US presidential races. In 2007, three researchers from
220-422: The 2007–2008 financial crisis . Roeder suggested that, recent technological advances, such as computer-driven trading programs, together with the increasingly interconnected nature of markets, has magnified the momentum effect. This effect is not limited to the financial markets. It can be felt across other aspects of society, particularly in politics, business, technology and the media where Big Mo now operates on
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#1732798052176240-524: The London Business School, Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, observed in their paper "108 Years of Momentum Profits" that "momentum appears to have an inordinate and unexplained impact on the behaviour of investment markets that contradicts the efficient market theory". One of the researchers, Dr Paul Marsh said, "We remain puzzled (by these findings) and we are not the only ones; most academics are vaguely embarrassed by this." In
260-632: The back of a cigarette packet. Momentum can carry whole economies off track. The mechanism by which momentum influences human behaviour on a large scale is not known, but a number of theories exist. In 1982, a research team led by John Nevin, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire , US, together with Charlotte Mandel and Jean Atak, wrote a paper called "The Analysis of Behavioural Momentum", in which they explored why certain behaviours can become persistent over time. The team proposed that people's tendency to continue to behave in
280-548: The change in the contingencies for the behaviour (i.e., environment change). The work of Nevin, Mandel and Atak has been influential in the development of social and health-care policies, such as drug rehabilitation programs, where behavioural persistence (momentum) and relapse are critical issues. More controversial theories about behavioural momentum derive from quantum physics and quantum field theory . In her book The Field , author Lyn McTaggart cites experiments that show that in certain group environments that, "each member of
300-409: The competitors are different. Streaks can also be applied to specific competitions: for example, a competitor who wins an event in three consecutive world championships has a winning streak at the world championships, even if they have lost other competitions during the period. A winning streak is different from an unbeaten streak in sports where tied results are possible, and so a result is neither
320-516: The field have pointed to the importance of understanding qualitative, psychological aspects of streaks. Studies in sports management suggest that some managers are able to prolong winning streaks through managerial strategies. In team sports , winning streaks may be achieved through planning a team based on Steiner's Taxonomy of Tasks . Teams may attempt to win through using star players (disjunctive), managing their weakest members ( conjunctive ), and/or aiming for squad depth (additive). Using one or
340-653: The fortunes of individual companies when the momentum approach appears to be easy to exploit and has been around for a long time... The momentum effect raises a further important issue. If markets are rational, as the efficient-market hypothesis assumed, then they will allocate capital to its most productive uses. But the momentum effect suggests that an irrationality might be at work; investors could be buying shares (and commodities) just because they have risen in price. That would help explain why bubbles are created and why professional investors ended up allocating capital to dotcom companies with no earnings and business plans written on
360-642: The lead-up to the British election in May 2010, James Forsyth, the political editor of The Spectator magazine, wrote, "The Big Mo is with the Tories . In a campaign, momentum matters. It is, for good or ill, the prism through which the media report things." In 2010, an analysis conducted by Mark Roeder , a former executive at the Swiss-based UBS Bank , suggested that Big Mo "played a pivotal role" in
380-494: The title Winning Streak . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Winning_Streak&oldid=961781466 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages winning streak A winning streak , also known as
400-493: Was actually slightly less likely to win or lose when it had experienced the same result in the previous match. A study of streaks in Major League Baseball and National Basketball Association concluded that the actual results were similar enough to predictions with no momentum effect, that the effect was of limited importance. Despite the apparent nonexistence of streaks in quantitative terms, many scholars in
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