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One more baller goes to Europe
Josh Childress, to Greece for $20 million over three years: "I get paid double, my role increases, I have no expenses and I move to a nice city?" Childress said. ... -
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: Michael Beasley made Kansas State ... -
Income inequality in pro sports
Mark Perry has a neat post at The Enterprise Blog, looking at income inequality in the NFL. As elsewhere in the economy, the long term trend is increasing, for both ... -
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 lower on-field performance than those ... -
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 an Orlando Sentinel blog poll, ... -
A Poem for Marvin Miller
"Flag at Half Mast", by Ed DeCaria at The Hardball Times. Very well done, for a truly great man. -
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 in the position of having ... -
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 were way off from last ... -
"What Moneyball Missed"
Interesting piece by Adam Fleisher at the American. The heart of the claim: The only problem was that Lewis's explanation for the A s success was the same as Commissioner ... -
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 to labor markets, the more ... -
Free agents and the winner's curse
Another Journal of Sports Economics article rates a feature in Kevin Lewis' Boston Globe column, "Surprising insights from the social sciences." IN SPORTS, FREE agency has allowed players, especially star ... -
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 panel of three arbitrators) will ...
