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A Clarification on Rodman and Jordan

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As I noted in  The Case for Michael Jordan, we do not say in The Wages of Wins that Dennis Rodman was “better” than Michael Jordan.  Matthew Yglesias, a writer for the American Prospect, has confirmed that story.  Today he wrote the following at his blog: A Clarification Since I'm partially responsible for the confusion, […]

What Wins Produced Says and What It Does Not Say

June 3, 2006 by

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The NBA tracks a variety of statistics to measure a player’s performance on the court.  NBA fans are familiar with points scored, rebounds, steals, assists, turnovers, blocked shots, etc… The difficulty with these statistics is that some players excel at some aspects of the game, but not at others.  And what we want to know […]

National Pastime – a great book from Szymanski and Zimbalist

June 3, 2006 by

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The Wages of Wins begins with a focus primarily on baseball, then moves on to a discussion of basketball, stops to look briefly at football and baseball again, and then concludes with basketball one more time.  In sum, we hit the three big North American sports.  Along the way we touch briefly on hockey and […]

One More Fan of the Hurricanes

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On March 8 the Minnesota Wild traded goalie Dwayne Roloson to the Edmonton Oilers for Edmonton’s first round draft pick, and a conditional third round pick. Now Edmonton is playing in the Stanley Cup finals against the Carolina Hurricanes.  So why might Wild GM Doug Risebrough be rooting for the Hurricanes? In the NHL, teams […]

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