Tracking Changes in MLB Baseball Attendance
Baseball-Reference.com has a handy page (HT to JC Bradbury) where they are tracking changes in MLB team attendance. It calculates overall attendance, per-game attendance, and …
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Feds Looking at Kansas Jayhawk Basketball Ticket Sales
The Feds have begun an investigation into the sale of tickets to Kansas Jayhawk men’s basketball tournament games, and maybe season ticket sales, according to …
Upsets and Blowouts in Tournaments
Here is the abstract of a paper in the most recent version of Economic Inquiry on upsets and blowouts in tournaments: In equilibrium play of …
Betting on the Tournament
From the Washington Post: The roughly $80 million wagered on the NCAA tournament in Las Vegas represents a minute fraction of the total betting on …
Increased Academic Standards
The Orlando Sentinel has this article (free registration required) about the new NCAA legislation that gives it the power to take scholarships away from Division …
Sports Leagues as Coasian Firms
Ronald Coase recently celebrated his 100th birthday. I read a few articles and posts from around the internet about Coase’s contributions to economic thought. One …
PEDs and Quality of Competition
In a recent TSE post, Brian writes: The league’s testing procedure (“analytic evidence”) uncovered only 13 users from 2009 to the present. Yet, now there …
Live Podcast on Thursday 10/13/05
This Thursday (10/13/05), John Palmer and I will be joining King Banaian of SCSU Scholars in a live podcast via James Reese’s Radioeconomics.com. The podcast …
Sports Subsidies in Texas
WFAA.com has a good story on the economic impact of mega events in Texas that is largely based upon a paper written by TSE’s own …
NAASE sessions at the 2017 MVEA’s
Michael Davis, Nick Watanabe, and I are organizing North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) sessions at this fall’s Missouri Valley Economics Association (MVEA) annual …