Sunk Costs in Baseball
A sunk cost is an unavoidable sacrifice: no matter what a person does, the sacrifice will be made and it’s best to ignore them. JC …
Olympic TV Ratings in the US
ABC’s Dancing with the Stars olympically outdistanced the Winter Games on Americans’ telly dials last night: “Stars” averaged 27.1 million total viewers over two hours …
It’s just not cricket
Happy new year sports economists. Australia and India are halfway through a four game series of Test Cricket. Whether the series is completed will depend …
New NCAA Playoff: Next Step or End Game?
Although it took about 10 years longer than I thought it might, the big-time football schools in college football finally adopted a genuine playoff. In …
Market design and the NFL draft
Today’s WSJ has a good story on issues with the design of the NFL draft — good, with the exception of the silly title, “The …
A Response to bobby and Phil
My colleague Phil recently highlighted a comment by bobby, one of our many great readers. Bobby is concerned that we here at TSE tend to focus …
The Optimal Penalty of Height Infractions in NASCAR
From NASCAR.com Carl Edwards’ race-winning No. 99 Ford failed post-race inspection following Sunday’s Dodge Dealers 400 at Dover International Raceway, which could lead to penalties …
MLB and collusion
After being found guilty of collusion several times in the 1980s and 1990s, including being assessed millions of dollars in damages, one would think MLB …
Team Valuations – Milwaukee/Alabama edition
While the Philadelphia 76ers got all of the press this year with their record-tying 26-game losing streak, the Milwaukee Bucks quietly ended up blowing out …
Legalized Scalping
In our Radioeconomics discussion about the World Series this morning, King Banaian, Phil Miller, and I discussed ticket scalping at the outset. In an earlier …