Now That We’ve Committed to Staying…
let’s look for new revenue sources. The Red Sox owners**** have decided to stay in Fenway for the long haul (link via Greg at Sports …
Demand for season tickets
The New York Jets and the New York Giants are raising ticket prices, they say to cover the $1.6 billion cost of the new stadium …
College Athletic Finances — The Untold Story
The two recent posts on college finances hit upon one of my pet subjects. With Mel Borland and Bob Pulsinelli here at WKU, I conducted …
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 …
Soccer Incentives
Recent travels kept me away from the SportsEconomist for the past couple of weeks. Fortunately, I was lucky of enough to have access to Fox …
Cheap Versus Affordable Luxury Items: What’s The Difference?
What Makes A Luxury Item? A lot of people have seen or even owned, a luxury item without ever knowing it was a luxury item. …
Conference Dating Game: Winners and Losers
Several college athletic conference realignments have taken place over the past 20 years in a process not unlike Match.com. Different parties size each other up …
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. …