A Few Words about the Late Ronald Coase and Sports
The Nobel laureate economist Ronald Coase died last Monday at age 102. Coase’s important contribution to economics was in showing the importance of transactions costs …
Keep Those Subsidies Flowing
The stadium game refers to the prisoners’ dilemma-type game played by cities in their quest to attract/keep sports teams, a subject frequently touched on here …
What’s a Name Worth?
Go to Amazon.com today and you can buy an official Nike “US Soccer” jersey on sale for $78.99. For a mere $35.00, the clothing manufacturer …
NFL Coaching & Race
Race and sports along with race and many other topics is a very sensitive topic. My post here grows out of a recent article by …
Predicting the Fall in the Spring
Like all sports fans, I want to know the future. I don’t want to wait around until October to see who will win the World …
NY Attendance
The NY Times has an article today on shortfalls in attendance at the two new stadiums in NY. I like this quote: The empty seats …
More on Using the Airline Model of Pricing to Price Tickets
Matt Phillips at a Wall Street Journal blog called “Middle Seat Terminal” takes up this TSE post on the San Francisco Giants using the airline …
Bowl "Location" & Congestion
Skip’s college bowl post brought to mind my wife’s puzzlement over why big college bowls are so spread out after New Year’s Day. Maybe her …
NFL Betting Tips For You
Betting in the World of football involves investing in the capability of one team over the other. This is done via the sense of prediction …
Playoff Roulette
Jeffrey Beckmann at BleacherReport presents a slideshow of the “50 Best Teams” not to win a World Series. Of the teams on this side of …