"Money" and "Ball" and the Cost per Win Fallacy
In his article, “Based on Payrolls, Brewers Faring Quite Well This Season,” Tom Haudricourt offers us the following: “The bottom
In his article, “Based on Payrolls, Brewers Faring Quite Well This Season,” Tom Haudricourt offers us the following: “The bottom
Here at the Sports Economist, one criticism of economic impact reports we commonly make is that these studies rarely account
“Coyote blog” posts: You hear a lot of debate about what wins NFL Championships – is it offense, defense, the
Rod Fort’s challenge to anyone who could outdo college football preseason polls (Not Exactly Julian Simon …) reminded me about
There’s a couple of articles that I ran across this morning about capital improvements in sports. The first, from the
Steroids have attracted a huge amount of attention in recent years including several posts here. A recent study (see article)
Negotitations over the Minnesota Vikings are reaching a head. At this point, Arizona businessman Reggie Fowler has exclusive negotiating rights
A sunk cost is an unavoidable sacrifice: no matter what a person does, the sacrifice will be made and it’s
ABC’s Dancing with the Stars olympically outdistanced the Winter Games on Americans’ telly dials last night: “Stars” averaged 27.1 million
Happy new year sports economists. Australia and India are halfway through a four game series of Test Cricket. Whether the
My colleague Phil recently highlighted a comment by bobby, one of our many great readers. Bobby is concerned that we here
After being found guilty of collusion several times in the 1980s and 1990s, including being assessed millions of dollars in