ILR CB 603 Economics of CB in Sports
Some recommended links for research projects
Major League Baseball Players Association COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/pa/info/cba.jsp
FULL TEXT of AGREEMENT
http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/pa/pdf/cba_english.pdf
(full-text, 241 pages)
USA TODAY Salaries Databases
http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/salaries/default.aspx
[Choose YEAR 2006 in pull down menu]
ESPN
MLB Salaries & Statistics on Individual Players
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/salaries?team=ari
STATS.com -- (Source for ESPN figures and many others)
http://www.stats.com/
BASEBALL GLOSSARY - including
Abbreviations; Definitions of Baseball Terms; Formulas and Definitions; Breakdown Categories
http://dailyjournal.stats.com/mlb/stats.asp?file=glossary
or
http://hosted.stats.com/mlb/stats.asp?file=glossary
Player Information
http://dailyjournal.stats.com/mlb/players.asp
or
http://hosted.stats.com/mlb/players.asp
See ABOUT US including
History
http://biz.stats.com/history.asp
(“…STATS is owned jointly by the Associated Press and News Corporation, with corporate offices in London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing, Bangalore, Mexico City, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles).
Sports-Reference.com
http://www.sports-reference.com/
Baseball-Reference.com
http://www.baseball-reference.com/
Associations
Statistics in Sports -- A Section of the American Statistical Association
http://www.amstat.org/sections/sis/
Baseball Sites
http://www.amstat.org/sections/SIS/Sports%20Data%20Resources/Baseball%20Sites/
Section on Operations Research in Sports of the
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
http://www.cba.uc.edu/or_sports/
Some readings --
Do Team-Specific Revenues Matter in Baseball’s Arbitration System?
Phillip A. Miller
http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~millep1/papers/arbitration%20and%20team%20revenues.pdf
[full-text, 27 pages] – NOTE THE BIBLIOGRAPHY in this paper
