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 …
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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 …
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. …
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 …
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 Night’s call against the Packers), but here goes …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …