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EconPapers: Steven Levitt (February 24, 2004)

Posted 7:59 p.m., February 24, 2004 (#3) - Fish Teaser
  I scrolled through tango's link and the list of articles but I didn't see anything relating to his assertions about baseball. Am I missing something, or is this link just for the sake of admiring data in other realms?

Starters Distribution (March 3, 2004)

Posted 11:54 p.m., March 4, 2004 (#2) - Fish Teaser
  I never realized how elastic that four man rotation really was. Hearing that the shorter rotation did not increase injury risk always made me wonder why clubs would hand over extra starts to unworthy pitchers. The five man rotation makes more sense when you realize how erratic it was with 4 starters. Allowing the 5th guy to pitch in a regular fashion probably helps his effectiveness. The benefit from taking starts away from your better pitchers is a possible increase in the sharpness of the 5th man. Interesting things I never considered before.

Relocation and the effect on attendance (March 5, 2004)

Posted 9:35 p.m., March 9, 2004 (#5) - Fish Teaser
  Although ballpark revenue may not be heavily affected, the lucrative television contracts may take big hit when there is a new guy in town. Of course, Cub games are more valuable to advertisers than White Sox games (although the trib company adjusts broadcasting revenue so that the Cubs actually report LESS but that's another story) but a television carrier may opt for the cheaper alternative. Or, at least, the threat of doing so could hamper the team formerly enjoying a market monopoly into selling its rights for less. Angelos may have little argument for impact on gate receipts but there could be a very real threat to his ability to squeeze more cash out of cable companies which would affect revenue in a significant way.

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