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The Law of Diminishing Returns and the NBA
The Phoenix Suns finished the 04-05 season with 62 wins. Before the 05-06 campaign began the Suns lost three very productive performers – Quentin Richardson, Joe Johnson, and Amare Stoudemire. How productive were these players? In our book we detail how the statistics tabulated for the players can be used to measure a player’s Wins […]
The Passing of a Great Economist
Our book is about applying economics to the study of sports. In telling our stories, we made mention of a number of economists. One of the first we mention is John Kenneth Galbraith, who died last Saturday at the age of 97. On my website I have the picture of three economists who I think […]
Rational Actors in Sports
A few weeks ago I noted the research of Cade Massey and Richard Thaler. At ESPN.com, Tuesday Morning Quarterback – Gregg Easterbrook – casts doubt on the work of these two economists. According to Easterbrook: “Researchers Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago and Cade Massey of Yale got some ink for a study suggesting […]
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May 3, 2006 by dberri
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