Materials for the Fall 2021 version of ECN333 can be found below:
For 8/27: The Principal-Agent Dilemma
Principal-Agent Dilemma Explained
Ricky Williams's Amazing First Contract
Short Documentary on Williams's Contract
For 9/1: Lazear and Rosen (Thru Section II)
For 9/8: Ehrenberg and Bognanno on Golf Tournament Incentives
For 9/10: Knoeber on Chicken Producing Tournaments
For 9/10: Yates and Malueg on Tennis Tournaments
Event Decomposition Help
Great Sources for the Project!
SI Vault Grantland Sports Business Journal WFU Library LexisNexis (Newspapers) Google News jstor.org https://scholar.google.com/
Law in Sport UNH Sports Law Marquette Sports Law
League Governance: Competitive Balance
More Tournaments: Footraces Best-of-N Contests (Tennis) Best-of-N Contests (Golf)
Hayward on 2005 Champions League Final
Palmer on Game 6 of 2011 World Series
Preston on 2015 Women's World Cup
2021 Cornhole Rules (Home teams contact visiting teams for creating a match and are responsible for scoring and standings update)
Good Cornhole Accounting and Bad Cornhole Accounting
Legitimacy of Competition is Rightfully Questioned in Sumo Track Tennis NBA Lobbies for More Regulated Gambling
Game Theory Failure on Jeopardy
Sophie shares a good article on surfing artificial waves
Collin shares a good article on the poison of tanking in MLB
Dowell sent the John Oliver story on chicken producers
Chicken Farming Story from NPR
Nate Silver on the Richness of Sports Data
Will sends a podcast on betting
Dowell sends article on finances of Premier League
Hannah sends article on USWNT's discrimination lawsuit
Hannah (the 2017 version) sends an article on NFL injury reports
Mishaan sends on article on China's growing interest in soccer
Gray sends an article on the NBA draft
Wu sends an article telling us that wealthy people get taxed more (but that they're still wealthy)
PGA Championship Prize Distribution
World Horseshoe Championship Prize Distribution
Cournot Duopoly Explained (for Dummies ;))
Baseball Attendance Study (For econometrics review)
Rottenberg on League Organization (for 9/21)
Neale on League Org http://media.clemson.edu/economics/4260/Neale-PeculiarEconomics-1964.pdf (for 9/21)
Zimbalist on Measuring Competitive Balance and Berri Chapter 4
Baseball History PP (from 9/23)
NFL Franchise Tag Tracker (eyeroll)
NBA Mid-Level Exception is Explained (my favorite risk-mitigation/competitive balance tool)
Interesting Ideas of Quantifying Competitive Balance
Collective Bargaining Agreements: NBA NFL MLB WNBA
SEC Football is Living Through a Competitive Balance Problem
NFL TV Deal Gives More Revenue to Share
Big City Teams are Attractive to TV in MLB Playoffs
Curt Flood and the Fight for Free Agency
Marvin Miller Remembered after 2012 Death
NFL is Socialist (all closed leagues are...)
NBA is worried about competitive balance after latest TV deal
Obligatory Hockey Revenue Sharing Article (hint: NHL has too many teams...)
Leicester City's Premier League Title Explained (Kante and Drinkwater now play for Chelsea. Invariance Principle!)
Video on Leicester City's Amazing Season
What if the NBA had a transfer window?
Roger Noll on Promotion and Relegation
Tepper Buys (not starts) a Charlotte MLS Squad
Totally Amazing FAQ on NBA's CBA in 2011
The Sixers Are Making a Mockery of the NBA
Premier League is Treading Water in Champions League
HOPE is a powerful thing (and a four-letter word)
Jay Bilas on Needed Changes to College Hoops (remarkable)
Levin on Ben Simmons' Crap Trip to Baton Rouge
NCAA Payola Issue Sees the Light
Sam Sends Good Article on Differences in Revenue Created by Jersey Sales (and Rottenberg nods knowingly...)
You Bet Your Bippy that the NCAA is Seeking an Antitrust Exemption
Berri on How Much College Basketball Players Are Worth
Jackson on Ending College Football
Jackson on Football & Basketball Not Subsidizing Olympic Sports
New Yorker Article on Not Paying College Athletes
Dutta (1) and (2) for Monday 10/25
Dutta 8 for Friday 10/29
Rock, Paper, Scissors at NYTimes
Pick-and-Roll Day: Video of P-n-R from Larry Legend Defending the P-n-R Executing P-n-R Stockton/Malone P-n-R Reel Curry P-n-R Reel James and Irving P-n-R Irving and Love Porous P-n-R Defense
Penalty Kicks for 10/30: http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/ChiapporiGrosecloseLevitt2002.pdf
McFall and Rotthoff on Second Shot Decisions
For Tuesday 11/2: Analyze two of these three situations using game theory, carefully discussing pure and mixed strategies:
a) On-sides Kick, 2015 National Championship b) Love v. Curry in game 7 2016 NBA Finals c) Bumgarner gets Perez in 2014 World Series
Discussion to Accompany each clip from above: a) Alabama On-Sides b) Love on Curry c) Bumgarner v. Perez
Ch 1 in Pure Baseball
Goldsberry on Three Point Revolution in NBA
Pulaski Academy's Unique Strategy
NFL, Violence Toward Women, and Women's Perception of League
Lloyd Op-Ed on USWNT Discrimination
Serena's Pay versus Novak's pay
Paying College Players and Women's Sports
Dani Foxhoven's Horror Story of Russian Soccer
East Germany's Treatment of Female Athletes
MLB and NFL treat PEDs differently
Armstrong Claims Tour Complicit in Drug Use
NBA Schedule is Breaking Players
Sosa & McGwire- the "Great" HR Chase of 1998
Marketing Games
Alabama (!) students aren't attending games like they used to
Patriots and Data Analytics to Help Fans
Changing Games