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Draft Economics

Chad Finn ( Touching All the Bases blog via Boston Globe) encourages readers, Don’t Rush to Judge Patriots Draft “The generally negative reaction to Belichick’s …

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draft, foolishness, NFL; salaries

NFL Draft Shenanigans

Entry drafts are used by all professional sports leagues in North America to allocate incoming talent to teams. They create monopsony power for teams because …

draft, labor, legal

NFL Draft Trifecta

If Phil Miller’s Saturday post on the NFL draft is Day 1, and Brian Goff’s Monday post on the NFL draft is Day 2, let’s …

draft, NFL; decision making; statistics

Slipping Through the Cracks – How NFL Teams Solve an Information Problem

Reed Albergotti at the Wall Street Journal writes about an information problem in the NFL and how it is imperfectly solved. Nevertheless, at a time …

draft, General, Major League Baseball

Latin (Baseball) Economics

A TSE reader, Jeff Baird, steered my attention toward an Economist article on Draft Dodgers No More: Can The Dominican Republic Avoid Puerto Rico’s Fate? …

draft, NFL

Market design and the NFL draft

Today’s WSJ has a good story on issues with the design of the NFL draft — good, with the exception of the silly title, “The …