Does NFL Success Matter for Communities?
Maybe only steroid discussions stirs the blood of sports economists quite like questions about the impacts of sports on communities, largely because of the tie-in …
George Will on the Minors
George Will, iin his column in today’s WaPo: describes some of the realities of life for players in the South Atlantic League (The Sally League), …
Economics of Sportsmanship
Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski blasted LeBron James for his behavior after the Magic series and his “explanation” of it the next day: I’m a winner, …
From Rags to Riches
The player’s union has just released the 2008 player salaries for Major League Soccer. The gulf between the “haves” and the “have nots” is simply …
Canadian Hockey, Sex, and My Golf Game
Related to Skip’s post, how much happiness was generated in Canada by Sunday’s hockey victory? “Thousands on street” in Vancouver (maybe 150,000), Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal …
An Inadvertent Test of Home-Field Advantage in the NFL
Back when I was a graduate student, we did our econometrics assignments on punch cards and submitted the “jobs” to a computer desk. We were …
Who wants to be a millionaire?
There is a game being played tonight in which the winning team will be paid $20 million and the losers paid nothing. This in itself …
Myrtle Beach Golf Conference
Announcing the first Myrtle Beach Golf Conference. The following is from an email I received from Andrew Weinbach of the Department of Economics at Coastal …
Referees and the Power of Statistics
We all remember the furor that erupted a couple of months ago regarding the Price and Wolfers paper that found a subtle racial bias in …
The Strike Zone as a Probability Density Function
The strike zone in baseball is supposed to be the area above the plate and between the batter’s armpits and knees. Seems simple enough, but …