Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports
As seen onThe New YorkTimes'Freakonomics blog, ESPN.com's True Hoop, and Slate.com. "InStumbling on Wins, sports economists Berri (Southern Utah Univ.) and Schmidt (College of William and Mary) follow up theirThe Wages of Wins(with Stacey Brook, CH, Jan'07, 44-2764) with more modeling and number-crunching applications. The holy grail remains the same: understanding and improving decision making on the court, field, and ice and in the front offices of North American professional team sports. Summing Up:Recommended. Sports and sports economics collections at all levels.Reprinted with permission from CHOICE, copyright by the American Library Association.