Minimum Age for the NBA Players
Former player and current TV analyst Steve Kerr propose raising the NBA minimum age from 19 to 20 in a recent Grantland column. His argument …
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The Value of Recruiting
Echoing Skip’s post below, I link to this article about Kansas State assistant basketball coach Dalonte Hill, about whose salary a recent stink was raised: …
Does Baseball’s Salary Arbitration Process Reduce Player Performance and Weaken Player-Club Relationships?
Guest Post by John Budd Previous research on Major League Baseball’s final-offer salary arbitration process has found that players who lost in arbitration have subsequent …
No Country for Old Men: The Bowden Saga
Due to travels, I missed writing about the Bobby Bowden affair during the height of the storm. The dismay among FSU fans is strong. In …
Franchise tag economics
The NFL is approaching the deadline after which players become free agents, and are able to negotiate with other teams. The salary cap puts teams …
Sports Econ Musings
A Real-Time Economic Indicator from Sports World: One of my colleagues returned from Talladega, reporting that crowds for the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races …
An Application of the Backwards Bending Supply Curve
The law of supply says that when the price of a good rises, all else equal, the quantity supplied of that good also rises. Applied …
Arduous Arbitration
It’s getting to be arbitration time in baseball. Each year a set of players and teams negotiate under the threat that a third party (a …
Amateur Baseball Players and International "Trade"
The Japanese called it a gentlemen’s agreement. It looks more like collusion to me, and it’s good to see the competition for good amateurs from …