NAASE sessions at the 2017 MVEA’s
Michael Davis, Nick Watanabe, and I are organizing North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) sessions at this fall’s Missouri Valley Economics Association (MVEA) annual …
How Neymar’s $263m Move to Paris St Germain Has Impacted Europe’s Transfer Market
Brazilian forward Neymar’s record-breaking $263m move from Spanish champions Barcelona to France’s Paris St-Germain was felt around Europe. Not only did it spoil relations between …
Phoenix Coyotes Bankruptcy: Real or Imagined?
Yesterday the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes filed for bankruptcy. The Coyotes had reportedly lost $90 million over the past 3 seasons, and with credit scarce in …
Ticketless Trojan Game
I’ve had an longtime fascination with gameday ticket resell, not just the analytics and systematic data study but in a “hands-on” way — I guess …
Baseball Healthy In Spite of Declining World Series Viewership
While Yankees v. Dodgers would been MLB’s dream television matchup for the World Series, the Red Sox v. Cardinals setup is likely better than most. …
The Purpose of College Athletics
King Banaian already commented on this issue, but I thought I would toss in my two cents. Myles Brand argued in a letter to Congress …
Race, Preferences, and the NFL
A new paper by Aldrich, et al., “Do People Value Racial Diversity? Evidence from Nielsen Ratings,” has been distributed electronically by B.E.Press. The paper is …
Moneyball & Efficiency
I’ve quickly noticed that the title, Moneyball, incites strong emotions. In spite of this, I’ll risk a venture into some of the issues intersecting with …
Something for Everybody: MLB’s Mechanism Design
Continuing my recent Yankees theme … in a curiously long post on his blog, SI writer Joe Posnanski considers the effect of MLB’s playoff structure …
Kinesiology and Curling
In curling, what if you could come up with some way for sweepers to improve their sweeping techniques and efficiency by 1%? Would that be …