Nth Verse, Same as the First
The St. Louis Rams want public money to build a new stadium to replace the Edward Jones Dome. Â Cue the requisite speculation regarding LA: To …
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Bookies all tied up
The start of the English Premier League season has been remarkable for one fact- the collapse in the number of tied games. Typically 25% of …
Steriods and Interests Groups
Sometimes, the simplest of economic ideas have a great deal of power. The MLB Players Association and their counsel, Donald Fehr, have been dragging their …
The Minors, Basketball Style
The National Basketball Developmental League is expanding. NBA Commissioner David Stern announced today that the National Basketball Development League has awarded teams to four Southwest …
Are the Marlins Spending Enough on Player Salaries?
From HardBallTalk: Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald spoke to a source within the MLB Players Association who says that if Marlins owner Jeff Loria doesn’t increase team payroll …
The Dispersion of Moneyball
Two diverse mentions of Moneyball over the past week. Both lend credibility to treating the Moneyball approach as a technological innovation in the assessing of …
More regulatory rumblings
A few more stories on the proposed intervention to regulate European football emerged today. The Evening Standard, a London paper, carried a story that UEFA …
TO’s Grievance Arbitration
(Crossposted at Market Power) I was critical of Terrell Owens’ public disgracing of teammates and supported the Eagles’ decision to suspend him. But because the …
C. Frederick Mosteller:Pioneer Sabremetrician?
From the NYTimes (reg. req’d): C. Frederick Mosteller, the founding chairman of Harvard’s statistics department and a pioneer in using statistics to analyze an array …
The Car of Tomorrow
When Dale Earnhardt died at Daytona in 2001, shock waves reverberated around NASCAR. In response, engineers have redesigned cars to provide extra safety measures. The …