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When it Comes
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The Wages of Wins has now gone to
Paperback!!!
The Wages of Wins – a
book which presents to a general audience our academic research on the
economics of sports
– has been released by Stanford University Press in paperback
form.
With a new edition
comes a new cover (see below), new reviews on the back cover (click here or
see below), and of course many updates (click
here or see below).
HERE ARE THE NEW
REVIEWS ON THE BACK COVER
(and here are more reviews, including more from Friedman, Gladwell, and Nocera).
“Wages is provocative, stimulating, and challenging.” Dick
Friedman, Sports Illustrated
“The
Wage of Wins
brilliantly and provocatively argues that our eyes betray us when we watch
professional athletes. To see the
truth about how good a point guard or quarterback is,
we need the help of algorithms.” Malcolm Gladwell,
author of Blink
and The
Tipping Point.
“When I read the book, I was
impressed by the amount of effort that went into compiling the reams of data
that underlie the work... The fundamental case the authors make is that the
statistical analysis shows that the conventional wisdom about sports is dead
wrong -- that the data, as they put it, ‘offers many surprises.’” Joe Nocera, New York Times
HERE IS A LIST OF
UPDATES TO THE PAPERBACK
The paperback is an updated version of our original
story. As the following list reveals,
the updates were many (although the basic stories we told remained the same).
- Chapter One: The link between payroll and
wins in the NBA was re-estimated using more recent data.
- Chapter Two: The labor dispute of 2005 in
the NHL was more fully reviewed.
- Chapter Three: The link between payroll
and wins in Major League Baseball was re-estimated using more recent
data.
- Chapter Three: The link between payroll
and population in the NBA, NFL, and Major League Baseball was
re-estimated using more recent data.
- Chapter Three: The recent spending spree
of the New York Yankees was updated.
- Chapter Four: The analysis of competitive
balance in soccer, football, hockey, baseball, and basketball were
updated.
- Chapter Five: The impact Allen Iverson had
on home attendance for the Philadelphia 76ers was explored.
- Chapter Six: The correlation between
various statistics and wins in the NBA was updated.
- Chapter Six: The study of offensive and
defensive efficiency in the NBA was updated for 2006-07.
- Chapter Six and Seven: A small effort was
made to improve the explanation of how the Wins Produced model was
calculated.
- Chapter Seven: A brief discussion of John
Hollinger’s Player Efficiency Rating was added.
- Chapter Seven: The Shaq and Kobe story,
which begins in Chapter Six and concludes in Chapter Seven, was updated
for events over the past two seasons.
- Chapter Seven: “The
Tragedy of Kevin Garnett” – a story from The Wages of Wins Journal – was
added.
- Chapter Seven: The impact of the 76ers
trade of Allen Iverson to the Denver Nuggets was reviewed
- Chapter Seven: The review of the 1995-96
draft was updated.
- Chapter Eight: The Eddy Curry and Tyson
Chandler story was updated.
- Chapter Eight: The evaluation of the top
scorers in the NBA was updated for 2006-07.
- Chapter Nine: We revised our model of
offense and defense for the National Football League.
- Chapter Nine: We revised our QB Score
measure.
- Chapter Nine: We updated our analysis of
Brett Favre, as well as our evaluation of the
best quarterbacks in the NFL.
- Chapter Nine: We updated part of our
analysis of the level of consistency we see in NFL quarterbacks.
- Chapter Ten: We updated our list of
overrated and underrated in the NBA for the 2006-07 season.
- Chapter Ten: “The
Wisdom of Red Auerbach” – another story
from The Wages of Wins Journal
– was added.
- Chapter Ten: With additional data in hand,
we re-estimated our analysis of the NBA coaches voting for the
All-Rookie team.
- Chapter Ten: With additional data in hand,
we re-estimated our analysis of player salary in the NBA.
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