Referees and the Power of Statistics
We all remember the furor that erupted a couple of months ago regarding the Price and Wolfers paper that found a subtle racial bias in …
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The Strike Zone as a Probability Density Function
The strike zone in baseball is supposed to be the area above the plate and between the batter’s armpits and knees. Seems simple enough, but …
Pricing Strategies: Apple & WKU
On the Freakonomics blog, Steve Levitt writes about Apple’s i-Phone pricing strategy — start high ($599) and come down ($399 two months later). As he …
Hot Loonie Observations
Thanks to Brad Humphreys for his post below on exchange rates and franchise values. There has been a plethora of “hot Loonie” articles lately. And …
Cross-town Rivals Cooperate to Bring Regional to Town
The University of San Diego has teamed up with San Diego State to host a regional. USD’s stadium is small, with 1,200 seats and it …
Subsidy Fight
While looking around for Carlos Delgado stuff yesterday, I ran across an article in the Miami Herald describing a subsidy Wayne Huizenga received many years …
The Strike Zone and the Probability Density Function
A little over a decade ago, I did play-by-play announcing for the AA London Tigers, a London, Ontario, affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. One night, …
Nature vs. Nurture in Coaching
From Friday’s Chronicle of Higher Ed daily emailing: Even though the number of women who participate in college athletics has risen dramatically since Title IX …
“42” and the Intangible Impact of Sports
Baseball is life, or so the saying goes. The release of “42” brings back to light a story that, among its many angles and nuances, …
How Are Infants Like Adults?
With apologies to Levitt and Dubner for the “How are x’s like y’s” title, here’s an interesting case of ticket pricing from the Big 12 …