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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...