For those of you who haven’t been following the World Cup, there are three notable features this time around: vuvuzelas, Landon Donovan (*swoon*) and bad calls by referees. (If you ever turned it on and wondered why it sounded like there was a swarm of bees in the stadium, now you know. [...]
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Fun With Math: I Need To Teach FIFA How To Perform A Cost-Benefit Analysis…Or Do I?
June 29th, 2010 · 12 Comments
Fun With Math · Sports
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Reader Question: So What’s Up With This Strasburg Kid?
June 8th, 2010 · 11 Comments
Behavioral Econ · Buyer Beware · Reader Questions · Sports
Okay, so maybe that wasn’t the exact wording of the question, but it’s what everyone seems to be asking nowadays…reader Seth writes:
I had a topic for you to address that I thought might be good for someone with a behavioral econ background. Tonight is Stephen Strasburg’s MLB debut (#1 uber prospect) for the Nationals. The [...]
Tags: Behavioral Econ · Buyer Beware · Reader Questions · Sports
Things Economists Do When No One’s Looking, Olympics Edition…
March 1st, 2010 · 6 Comments
Fun With Data · Sports
Well here’s a model for ya…economist Daniel Johnson is getting a lot of press for a model that predicts Winter Olympic medal counts by country. A friend sent me the story about it that appeared in Forbes, and even the Freakonomics blog has taken up the cause. From the article:
Over the past five [...]
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Reader Question: On How Red Sox Fans Are Like Puppies…
December 10th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Econ 101 · Reader Questions · Sports
I saw this a couple of hours ago on my Facebook News Feed:
Mick Greenwood loves how the Red Sox literally tell us that they’re going to raise the cost and decrease the value. Hey Jodi Beggs - Economists Do It With Models - can you smarten them up, please?
Awwww…I have my friends trained so well- [...]
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When Money Does Buy Happiness(?), World Series Edition…
December 3rd, 2009 · 5 Comments
Sports
In case you were wondering why I haven’t written in the last few weeks, the blame is to be placed on the following video, which led me to look up virtually every number having to do with the business of baseball and then dive head first into Excel and not come up for air:
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