The Downside of Baseball's Data Revolution
Most revolutions have a downside (see October 1917). So too with baseball. The use of data analytics in baseball has changed the game in important ways -- where fielders are ...Paying for Sports Programming
It is pretty widely understood that sports programming drives live television these days. The Nielsen ratings for broadcast networks during the week of December 24 provide some recent data. Nielsen's ...The Secondary Ticket Market in Boston
Good story by Shira Springer in today's Boston Globe on two proposed pieces of legislation that would lift the cap, one partially, on the secondary ticket market in Massachusetts. A ...Sayonara Arena Football
At least for 2009. As posted in the comments, here is the story. My take (as I've said before): investments in new forms of commercial sport will see both fan ...Active bidding for BCS TV rights
The story is pitched as "first major sports event goes to cable," but for me the real information is in the size of the bids: On Monday afternoon, current rights-holder ...Olympic bailouts
The developers who are Vancouver's partners in the 2010 Winter Games reportedly have ... financial issues. UBC's Professor Somerville sums up the implications nicely, I think: "We’re looking at a ...Hockey in the Great Depression
Given all of the talk that sports are acyclical -- and indeed some pieces of evidence -- I found the following set of facts very interesting. There's no question the ...Mixed signals on the sports economy
Season ticket renewals for the LA Lakers ran at 99%, "despite price hikes that raised the cost of Jack Nicholson's seats at Staples Center to $2,500 a basketball game." In ...Two on the economy & attendance demand
"Economic downturn isn't slowing luxury box sales," at the NY Times. The focus is on the New York market and sales at the new stadiums. The article stresses the size ...Re-pricing Triathalons
Some interesting items reported in this NYT story on triathalons. First, the demand to compete in a triathalon is increasing and so is price. The triathlon is a sport that ...
