Lynne Kiesling As KP readers know, I am a cyclist and commented on the innumerate media debacle surrounding the Floyd Landis drug test here and here in July. Between the histrionics of the media, the history of bad behavior on the part of at least one testing lab, and the sheer ignorance of science and …
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Michael Giberson I’m not much of a baseball fan, but I am fascinated by the Moneyball story. On a simple level, it is the story of competition and the discovery and use of knowledge in baseball management. But rather than diving into a rhapsodic soliloquy about economics and the use of knowledge in society, let …
Michael Giberson I’m not much of a baseball fan, but I am fascinated by the Moneyball story. On a simple level, it is the story of competition and the discovery and use of knowledge in baseball management. But rather than diving into a rhapsodic soliloquy about economics and the use of knowledge in society, let …
Michael Giberson Steven Pearlstein’s column in the business pages of today’s Washington Post takes note of Ticketmaster’s growing efforts to become the officially-sanctioned secondary market for an increasing number of teams, venues, and performers. As we have mentioned here before, active secondary markets for tickets can be a good thing for consumers as well as …
Michael Giberson At The Sports Economist, David Berri uses the occasion of a brief Business Week piece, “Freakonomics vs. Moneyball” to draw further attention to an article by Jahn K. Hakes and (Sports Economist blog-founder) Skip Sauer that appeared in this summer’s edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. In the article, Hakes and Sauer …
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Michael Giberson In a follow-up to my World Cup posting comparing hype and data on the new Adidas Teamgeist soccer ball design, I’ve taken another look at the Major League Soccer data. You may recall that the new ball was supposed to be a striker’s dream and a goalkeeper’s nightmare. In fact, the Washington Post …
The KP household is ready for the 2006-2007 English Premiere League season: Here’s the problem: I root for Manchester City and Liverpool, the KP Spouse roots for Tottenham and Chelsea. Yes, the north/south divide there is no accident; I lived in Manchester for a spell in graduate school. Man City is my sentimental favorite, thus …
Lynne Kiesling OK, really, I’m going on vacation … but I cannot tear myself away from the staggeringly histrionic and innumerate train wreck that is the media coverage of Floyd Landis’ high T/E result. Today’s coverage has further reinforced my belief in my comments yesterday that the media are irrationally sensationalist and the UCI announcement …
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Lynne Kiesling Statistical illiteracy abounds in society, and nowhere is it more evident than in the screaming headlines this afternoon about “Floyd Landis’ failed drug test”. OK, so this statistical illiteracy is a pet peeve of mine, so let me scratch it here. Cyclists face a two-tier drug test, A and B. If you have …
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Michael Giberson I was going to post about the Washington Post‘s Sports section article on secondary markets for sporting event tickets, but the fine folks at The Sports Economist have beat me to it. In addition to the price discrimination angle that the Sports Economist notes, increased liquidity in the secondary market reduces risks to …
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