Super Bowl Betting Recap
The results are in, and Super Bowl XLV was not super for Vegas sports books. The Packers were a three point favorite in the game, and the line didn't move ...4th Downs and Beyond: Coaches as Optimizers
Ran across a recent piece on the evolution of Jason Garrett's playing calling by Jonathan Bales of DC Times (an analytics based blog on the Dallas Cowboys and the NFL). ...The NFL to Member Teams: All Your Los Angeleses are Belong to Us
When the most recent print version of the Sports Business Journal arrived at Chez Miller, an above the fold headline read: "NFL: We Have Final Say in L.A." with a ...Weekend Wrapup
Quite a weekend in sports economics... Pittsburgh, San Diego, and Vegas There was an interesting finish in the game between the Chargers and the Steelers. On the last play of ...Revenue Sharing and Salary Caps: Will the NFL End Up Like the Big XII?
Many folks point to the NFL revenue sharing system and its salary cap as the determinants behind the more-or-less balanced competition between the teams. As we edge closer to a ...Farewell to Bad Calls or Just Less Complaining?
Maybe I just enjoy defending the dead horse that keeps getting kicked or the indefensible (like Monday's Nights call against the Packers), but here goes one last post as the ...Implicit Bounties?
Dennis Coates' post considered the serious nature of the Saints' bounty system and foreshadowed the stunning response by the league that is now the buzz of sports websites and blogs ...Young-McNabb, Fisher-Shanahan, and Media Inconsistency
Most NFL writers trashed Vince Young's after his shoulder-pad throwing, walking out on Jeff Fisher blowup on Sunday. The grilling ranged from moderate such as SI.com's Peter King And though ...Games at Work on Super Bowl Officials
The Super Bowl officiating has generated a loud buzz of activity, much of it centered on the "no-call" of holding against the Ravens on the 4th down from the 5 ...Coaches & Risk-Taking
Manning over Tebow. Ok, that's an easy choice in the short term. Surprisingly from Tebow's wins-losses, but not surprisingly from coaching practices, little interest in a trade for Tebow existed ...Sports Economists Weigh in on American Needle v. NFL
Earlier this week I described the American Needle v. NFL case that will soon be argued before the Supreme Court. The most recent filing in the case is an amicus ...The First Two Data Points Say "...mmm, I'm Not Sure Yet"
The new NFL overtime rule, see page 111 (introduced last season for playoff games only) finally became binding in the current playoff series two weeks ago, and then for a second time yesterday. Of most interest ...
