Currently I am involved with an assortment of projects. So my ability to contribute in this forum (or for any other blog I am involved with) is limited. Although I am not writing much on-line (I am writing quite a bit elsewhere), I am still reading stuff. And here is …
Economists aren’t known for getting predictions right. Nevertheless, we keep trying. My latest prediction – which was revealed in an article by Ron Dicker at Huffington Post – was that television ratings for NBA games this Christmas would exceed the ratings seen for games played on Christmas last year. This …
A few weeks ago, Arturo and Devin – in two separate posts – wrote about which markets deserve and don’t deserve an NBA franchise. These posts considered a few objective factors about a market in ascertaining where the NBA should locate its teams. Today at Freakonomics, I took a very …
The Wages of Wins has been called a “Moneyball-Bible”. This is just one observation in a list of Sunday Bullets.
Darren Rovell – of CNBC — examined how much an NFL player gets paid for winning the Super Bowl. As I have noted before, professional athletes are paid for the regular season. For the playoffs, the players are paid according to the playoff bonus pool. And as Rovell notes …
One of my favorite features at TrueHoop – the leading NBA blog in the world – is the daily bullet list. This week, though, we only got two lists. Henry Abbott says he is busy with other aspects of the blog, like writing actual stories on Yao Ming and LeBron …
After posting — Who pays attention to sports economists? – on Sunday morning I decided that this story would make for a good Huffington Post column. So Sunday evening I re-wrote the story and posted “Should the House Democrats Have Changed Coaches?”. The primary difference in the two posts is …
Sometimes I am surprised at the answer to this question. To illustrate, a few years ago I was asked by Steve Forbes (okay, actually someone who works for Forbes) if I could send an autographed copy of The Wages of Wins to one of his friends. More specifically, a copy …
The publisher of Stumbling on Wins – Financial Times Press – is making an offer this week that I don’t think many can refuse. If you have Kindle, you can download Stumbling on Wins until November 27 for $0.00. Yes, you read that correctly. This week – if you have …
My latest at Huffington Post reviews the results of research Martin Schmidt and I published in the American Economic Review (AER) in 2004. Via some fairly sophisticated time-series analysis, Marty and I found that labor disputes do not statistically impact attendance in professional sports. In other words, fans often threaten …