Soccer Incentives
Recent travels kept me away from the SportsEconomist for the past couple of weeks. Fortunately, I was lucky of enough to have access to Fox …
Brian Goff
Conference Dating Game: Winners and Losers
Several college athletic conference realignments have taken place over the past 20 years in a process not unlike Match.com. Different parties size each other up …
Officiating Errors & The Role of "Models"
Recent poor calls in collegiate football and MLB (Yankees-Angels video) have generated a lot of internet traffic. While all “human error” in a generic sense, …
Neanderthal Managing
Michael Silver takes NFL teams and coaches to task on Yahoo! Sports regarding Stone Age thinking about about training camp practices in extreme heat. This …
NFLPA v. MLBPA
A couple of weeks ago, the NFL Players Association re-elected Gene Upshaw as executive director (see AP story). Bryant Gumbel’s dissing of him notwithstanding, NFL …
TV Commercials & Sports
As most any sports fan, commercials during sporting events annoy me– not the hawking of wares, per se, but the time it adds to the …
Sir Alex & His Peers
Most U.S. sports fans don’t know who Sir Alex Ferguson is much less his accomplishments as manager of the most highly valued sports franchise in …
A World of Limits Even for Chelsea
In his “Mutiny at the Bridge” Soccernet’s Norman Hubbard notices a rising mood at Chelsea that I pondered last October in “The Extra Variable”: … …
Option in NFL: Zvi Griliches One More Time
In everyday usage “technological change” often references changes to machinery of some sort. Among economists, the term refers to changes in the methods of production, …
Is Torre Worth $4.3M Per Year?
The front page of the WSJ’s Weekend Journal section addresses this question today (subscription required). Darren Everton does a nice job observing that Baseball managers …