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Showing posts with label sports economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports economics. Show all posts
Friday, February 25, 2022

What All The Pundits Are Getting Wrong About CFB Playoff Expansion

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In the subculture that is major college football, big news broke earlier this month that the championship playoff at the sport's highest...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Ranking College Football Programs - Discounted Win Percentage

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[tl;dr - It is Ohio State, Alabama, and Oklahoma in the top 3 just about any way you cut it] As the spring semester starts so too does the o...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

What Does NIL Imply for Parity in College Football?

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The evil empire known as the NCAA has now finally relaxed its rules on amateurism allowing college athletes to earn compensation off of thei...
Friday, August 7, 2020

What To Root For

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In late summer every football fan begins to dream about the season to come with aspirational hopes for one's team and general excitement...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

My Plan for a Much Better College Football

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Now that a season is behind us, let's dream of a better world. In this case I am limiting the thought experiment to the competitive stru...
Friday, October 25, 2019

What Do Weddings and College Football Have in Common?

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Besides not going together as in: do not schedule your wedding in conflict with an OU football game and expect me to attend (the wedding). ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

The Rational Fan: Managing Hopes and Constantly Adjusting Expectations

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(I love the mirror image below the bars hinting at the symmetrical negative to any observable outcome.) Consider the analogy of graphic ...
Saturday, May 4, 2019

Help Me Find a Difference

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What is the logical difference in the following statements. In other words, why should I agree with some but not all or disagree with some...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Ranking College Football Programs - 1970-2018

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It is about time that I updated my previous work on ranking college football programs. Recalling the methodology from before, I am attemp...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

The Best Defense is . . .

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The game of football has changed in the couple decades in a fundamental way. Nowhere is this more acutely witnessed than in the college game...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Highly Linkable: Pay College Athletes Edition

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With two important cases working their way through the courts (Jenkins v. NCAA and Alston v. NCAA), I continue to be optimistic that we are ...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

The State of Sooner Football

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About nine months ago I began writing this post in rough form following a pair of painful and disappointing losses to begin the 2016 Sooner ...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Highly Linkable

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I want to go to there . For those of you pondering in your apartments 'why should I read in my shower when I could listen to a podcast...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Highly Linkable

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So Jay Bilas of ESPN and Oliver Luck of Cosa Nostra the NCAA debated paying college athletes at an event hosted by FIRE. Andy Schwartz imag...
Saturday, May 9, 2015

Highly Linkable

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We begin with some short videos: Don Boudreaux's latest addition to MRUniversity - An Orgy of Innovation Alex Epstein offers in hono...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Highly Linkable

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I want to go to there . I DON'T want to go back to there then . Speaking of a then to be glad we are no longer in, Megan McArdle on ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Highly Linkable

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Is that a Lite-Brite? No, it's NYC . Have you heard the country song? It seems there is only one . Five exam hacks to help you ace ...