Progressive Betting and Professional Sports
Previously, we talked on The Sports Economist about improving your chances when betting on professional sports, specifically football. We want to dedicate an article to …
MLB Umps Not so Color Blind?
The racial bias analysis of strikes-balls decisions of MLB umps by UT-Austin professor Daniel Hamermesh and coauthors (Parsons, Sulaeman, Yates) has generated the expected buzz …
NCAA Options: More of the Same?
A friend and semi-retired finance colleague who read Bobby McCormick and Bob Tollison’s insightful post on Subversion of the Academy by the NCAA wondered where this …
Some Modest and Not So Modest Proposals
The World Cup Finals are unique as far as team sports go. It draws, literally, from a worldwide pool of participants. It stages a month-long …
Should We Be Impressed?
Yesterday Rich Lederer of The Baseball Analyst made the following observation. The St. Louis Cardinals. The only team that won 11 postseason games. The only …
Sports Betting Could Be A Life Raft For The NFL
I’ll start this piece by clarifying that the NFL doesn’t need a life raft the way some casual observers might expect. It’s still the most …
Match Ups We Want To See In NBA Playoffs 2022
This season in the NBA has been, for lack of a better term, legendary. With more effective strategies, injuries galore, and vastly unpredictable outcomes, it’s …
Sports Commissioners in the “Gangster” Era
“I talked to that whole staff. I said this is my city. I’m cut from a different cloth. None of them guys on their team …
Demand Curves Slope Down
From the Charlotte Observer (membership read): In two months, the Charlotte Bobcats begin playing in a new, publicly funded uptown arena. Typically, new arenas boost …
What are the advantages of using this white label iframe platform to bet?
When it comes to picking the right sportsbook software, it is an arduous task due to the presence of much new software. But you have …