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? MLB included Puerto Ricans in ...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 approach to the draft among ...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 NFL Draft Drives Economists Crazy." ...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 when other sports like baseball ...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 they assign the rights to ...Judge Sotomayor & Sports Labor Relations
Joel Maxcy, Coordinator of the University of Georgia's Sport Management Programs, has started a blog, Sports Labor Relations. In this post, Joel examines Judge Sotomayor's decision in the Clarett case ...From the Archives: Judge Sotomayor's Decision in the Clarett Case
In addition to her injunction which brought an end to the baseball strike of 1994 (on this, see Richard Sandomir's piece in the NYT today), Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor played ...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 finish this off the trifecta ...US & EU labor rules drifting further apart
Millions of pounds change hands when promising teenagers move from feeder clubs to the giants of European football. Cristiano Ronaldo (£12m at age 18, to Man Utd) and Theo Walcott ...
