Judge Posner on Drugs
If you do not look at the weekly postings on the Becker-Posner Blog, you are missing some great writings from two notable scholars. At the …
John Palmer
Monopoly, Monopsony, and the Parallels between the NCAA and CCA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)in the U.S. and the Canadian Curling Association (CCA) have two important things in common: monopoly and monopsony. Monopoly:The NCAA …
What Is the Price Elasticity of Demand for NFL Network?
Gregg Easterbrook of ESPN knows. It’s greater than one (in absolute value): The NFL’s insistence on asking too much for its channel is yet another …
NHL and NHLPA Agree on a Salary Cap Formula
The Toronto Globe and Mail is reporting that it has two separate sources telling them the NHL and the NHLPA have agreed to a salary …
Is Steroid Use in Baseball a Positive-Sum Game?
I don’t like pitchers’ duels in baseball. I like to see high-scoring games. Low-scoring games remind me too much of all the things I didn’t …
BraveRocks? Brave Lochs? Curling and Congestion in Scotland
Last week it looked as if the Royal Caledonia Curling Club (RCCC) would be able to host a Grand Match of curling on Lake of …
Is Hockey in Trouble?Results of an Unscientific Poll
From the Toronto Globe and Mail, an on-line voluntary poll asks, Now that talks have progressed, will you be happy to see the return of …
An Inadvertent Test of Home-Field Advantage in the NFL
Back when I was a graduate student, we did our econometrics assignments on punch cards and submitted the “jobs” to a computer desk. We were …
The Strike Zone and the Probability Density Function
A little over a decade ago, I did play-by-play announcing for the AA London Tigers, a London, Ontario, affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. One night, …
Scalping and Price Discrimination
All the major league sports teams are getting into scalping [Washington Post, reg. req’d]. NFL, NBA and NHL teams have partnered with Internet firms with …