Officiating Errors & The Role of "Models"
Recent poor calls in collegiate football and MLB (Yankees-Angels video) have generated a lot of internet traffic. While all “human error” in a generic sense, …
Neanderthal Managing
Michael Silver takes NFL teams and coaches to task on Yahoo! Sports regarding Stone Age thinking about about training camp practices in extreme heat. This …
The Short Supply of Tall People is Getting Longer
From a past entry from Dave Berri’s Wages of Wins Journal: The statement about competitive balance reflects an argument offered in The Wages of Wins. …
If You Build It, They Will Come
Maybe. If they are subsidized. The Minnesota Ballpark Authority is expected to announce today a $1 million fund to enhance the area around the Twins …
It Isn’t Scalping, It’s "Price Discrimination"
The Chicago Cubs have their own ticket-reselling agency [aka scalper] which sells tickets at prices above the face value. Well, it isn’t owned by the …
Well, if nobody watches hockey….
What about curling? Actually, more people would watch it if they could! It turns out that the Canadian Curling Association negotiated a new contract for …
Baseball Stadium Quirks
From Frank Deford at Sports Illustrated: Myself, speaking for students of baseball, I’m sorry, but in constructing some things, the trick is not to run …
NFLPA v. MLBPA
A couple of weeks ago, the NFL Players Association re-elected Gene Upshaw as executive director (see AP story). Bryant Gumbel’s dissing of him notwithstanding, NFL …
TV Commercials & Sports
As most any sports fan, commercials during sporting events annoy me– not the hawking of wares, per se, but the time it adds to the …
Standard Deviation of Binary Dummies
When I read manuscripts submitted to or published in economic journals, it is not uncommon for authors to report the standard deviation of binary dummy …