Rodney Fort's Sports
Economics
Links and Fun Area
Intro
Like we all do, I cruise the web a lot. And I run
into tons of material on the web related to the text material. Here, I put
up two types of material. First, there are recent and new links to
interesting, informative, and fun stuff on sports economics from the web.
But I also keep a reference list of the sites to which I return over and over
again.
Chapter by Chapter
Here is the material organized by chapter:
General Sports Blogs and Links of Interest; Sport
Specific Links
Blogs
General Links
MLB
NBA
NFL
NHL
- Business
of Pro Hockey : About.com ProIceHockey blog.
- Hockey
Business: A few interesting stories, and some good links on the
hockey business (e.g., everything you wanted to know about the definition of
free agency in hockey) from about.com.
- Hockey Biz: A
wealth of business data from HockeyZonePlus.com, including average salaries
and average attendance. The organization is a bit cumbersome, but you
can find it.
-
NHLPA Individual Player Salaries: Straight from the horse's mouth.
- Andrew's NHL
Business Page : Andrew's Dallas Stars Pages, NHL Business
section. Payrolls, average attendance, Forbes reports, and more.
- Biz of Hockey: Maury
Brown, again.
-
USAToday.com Hockey Salaries and Payrolls : by year, by team, by
player, league-wide descriptive statistics.
College
- NCAA Financial
Reports Database: A database, searchable by university, from
IndyStar.com. This was produced by a reporter at the Star by surveying
Division I-A athletic directors. And here's an
MSExcel File
with the same data base.
- Equity in Athletics Disclosure
Website: Office of Post-Secondary Education official
website for Title IX compliance. All required equity reporting
financial data are here, searchable by university.
Other
- Golfweb:
Everything golf. Especially, click "Stats." There's a little
engine that allows you to choose a tour and then stats about that tour,
including some about money leaders for a few years back. Under "Schedules"
you can find final scores and earnings for the current campaign.