Foul Strategy?
Law Professor, Steven Lubett, of Northwestern University has posed the following question (via Alex Kozinsky) about optimal strategies for committing fouls near the end of …
John Palmer
Electronics, Computers, and Judgement Calls
As I watched the final match of the NASDAQ tennis tournament Sunday afternoon and the opening game of Major League Baseball on Sunday evening, I …
Barriers to Entry and Franchising
Co-blogger Phil Miller has recently written on his own blog, Increasing the size of a league imposes [negative] externalities on existing team owners. The new …
Instant Replay, Technology, and the U.S. Open
It was only a matter of time. The U.S. Open will be the first Grand Slam event to review disputed calls electronically. … The technology …
$1 Billion for the New Orleans Saints
It has been widely reported (see this link and the original SI story) that a Canadian consortium, presumably based in Toronto, offered $1b for the …
Banks are Pressuring NHL Owners to Settle
Darren Rovell, of ESPN.com, reported on Canada’s Sportsnet Thursday evening (though I cannot find this on the ESPN website) that many NHL owners who own …
The Superbowl: an even split?
As I am writing this, Tradesports.com has the contract for New England minus 6.5 points selling at about 53.5 -54.5 cents. I gather this means …
Race, Preferences, and the NFL
A new paper by Aldrich, et al., “Do People Value Racial Diversity? Evidence from Nielsen Ratings,” has been distributed electronically by B.E.Press. The paper is …
Kinesiology and Curling
In curling, what if you could come up with some way for sweepers to improve their sweeping techniques and efficiency by 1%? Would that be …
Why Don’t Teams Lower Ticket Prices When the Team Isn’t Doing Well?
In an earlier posting, the discussion in the comments raised the econ-speak concepts of marginal revenue and marginal costs. Here is another intriguing application, using …