P. Antonioni and J. Cubbin, "The Bosman Ruling and the emergence of a single market in soccer talent", European Journal of Law and Economics, 9(2): 157-73, 2000.This paper discusses the effect of the Bosman Ruling on the nature of contracts between club and player under the modeling framework of options pricing theory. It uses the […]
I've been looking at the MFLS statistics and I was thinking of a quick way to assess the value of my players relative to the rest of the fantasy market. I decided to borrow one of the more popular terms from stock market investing to do this — the Price/Earnings ratio. It's really simple, so […]
It's probably odd for me to say this considering how much I look at the analytical side of sports, but I've never been a big fan of fantasy sports. Part of the reason is that I'm incredibly lazy and find it hard to make the effort required to become knowledgeable about the players and make […]
Radu Tunaru, Ephrahim Clark, and Howard Viney, "An options pricing framework for valuation of football players", Review of Financial Economics, 14: 281-295, 2005.It is important for football club management to know how much their players are worth on the open market. This publication is the first to use concepts from options pricing to develop a […]
