Football analysis and strategy from Chris B. Brown
Player salaries and economic rents
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Player salaries and economic rents
Brian Burke opines on NFL salaries: Personally, I think they’re all overpaid, rookies and veterans. If you ask most football players if they would still play football for $80,000 per year instead of $800,000 or $8 million, they’d say yes. It’s almost certainly a better proposition than whatever else they’d be able to do in…
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What is the proper goal for a professional sports team, profits or championships?
Professor David Zaring asks if “the high-end sports team debt burden [is] a feature of private equity?”: And plenty of other examples exist, as Americans continue to buy up the English Premier League, as concern grows that debt financing in high end soccer (Real Madrid, AC Barcelona are almost as debt ridden, Arsenal isn’t far…
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