Category Archives: College Sports

Arturo’s NCAA March Madness Tournament Bracket Buster

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I’m such a geek. (Editor’s note: Massive understatement.)

As you know, we’ve been putting together some nice tools for all those tournament brackets that folks may be filling out in the next couple of days. James was nice enough to provide win scores. I just had to turn it into a cheat sheet using my own personal formula.

If that’s not enough for you…Erich over at xlssports.com has just put up a template for calculating 2012 bracket odds. He kindly passed it along and asked if we’d be nice enough to let our fans know about it. I also had to graph this one up as well.

Put those two together to look for contenders and you get:

As for Cinderellas?

Have fun with those pools!

-Arturo

More March Madness help.

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Everyone is caught up in March Madness. Today Patrick conned convinced some of the Wages of Wins Network bloggers into a pool. We’ll let you know who wins (my money is on Arturo). This morning James provided the ultimate cheat sheet for those hoping to gain an edge in their bracket. BusinessDegree.net provided bracket advice in the form of a beautiful graphic. Well guess what? We’ve been given even more help!

Erich over at xlssports.com has just put up a template for calculating 2012 bracket odds. He kindly passed it along and asked if we’d be nice enough to let our fans know about it. We are of course more than happy to!

You have cheat sheets, templates, advice in graphics. You have no excuse not to win your NCAA bracket! Go forth with the stats and know your odds are slightly better than chance but still slightly better than your friends’ odds.

-Dre

A Free Market for College Athletes

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My latest for the Huffington Post — What Sports Illustrated Didn’t Tell You About Paying College Athletes – is obviously a response to a recent article from Sports Illustrated.   In the article I advocate a free market for college athletes.

Last August, Robert McCormick and Robert Tollison offered another alternative. In Subversion of the Academy by the NCAA, these two economists noted that the problem in college sports is that the coaches and administrators participate in a free (although quite distorted) market while the labor is treated as amateurs.  If one doesn’t like letting the players participate in a free market, why not have everyone go back to being amateurs?  In other words, let’s return college sports to what it was before people realized money could be made.

Whether one wishes to see a completely free market for everyone or everyone be treated like the players (i.e. everyone is an amateur), it does seem clear that having one institution for the players and another for the coaches seems to be a big part of the problem.  And until that disconnect is resolved, so-called “scandels” will continue to be a part of college sports.

- DJ