Baseball and the Economy: What Happened to TV Ratings?
Attendance at MLB games this past season was 6.9% lower than it had been the previous year. That is a HUGE drop. An intriguing question …
Outside Opportunities
It looks like the NHL season is going to be cancelled. Players are being urged to find another league to play in to keep up …
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 …
The Top 5 Sporting Events To Bet On
With online betting making such huge strides, placing wagers on sports games and races is thriving now more than ever. Punters are flocking to booking …
Indianapolis to Bid on the 2011 Super Bowl
Don Coffin emailed me a link about Indianapolis’s mayor’s announcement that city officials are going to make a bid on the 2011 Super Bowl (here’s …
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 …
Tax Deductible Two Part Tariff (at least the first part)
From the Chicago Tribune: What I don’t understand, however, is the law that allows ticket buyers to write off 80 percent of their “preferred seating …
Separating Cause & Effect in the U.S. Performance
The post-match breakdowns of the U.S.’s whipping by the Czechs offered several factors. Some are just silly such as the U.S. has bad karma in …
Constraints a Good Thing?
Aside from the endorsement income aspect covered in several posts in TSE, the Tiger Woods story has generated Internet buzz about a variety of tangent …
Call for Papers – Missouri Valley Economics Association Conference in Kansas City – Extended Deadline
Michael Davis and I are arranging North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) – affiliated sports economics sessions for the 2015 Missouri Valley Economic Association (MVEA) …