The passing premium puzzle is the existence of a balance between the number of passing and running plays, even though … there is a greater expected return in passing plays. The puzzle is documented using both historical trends of aggregate … numbers and play by play data from the 2005 NFL season. …

The passing premium puzzle states that NFL teams do not call enough passing plays, despite rule changes since the late … 1970's that have increased the expected return to passing. This paper develops a simple portfolio model to determine how a … coach could determine an optimal share of running and passing plays to maximize the expected yardage return from the …

This study examines the relationship between NFL game characteristics and the frequency of fan ratings on the NFL …’s website (www.NFL.com). The margin of victory and overall total points scored in a game are shown to be significant …

, television and radio advertising, and team merchandise sales. For the 2009-2010 National Football League (NFL) season, NFL ….com, the official website of the NFL, had fans enter a ‘‘fan rating’’ for each game of the season. This rating was on a …

Madden provides evidence that African American head coaches in the National Football League (NFL) significantly … be better to be hired as head coaches. In 2002, the NFL promulgated the Rooney Rule requiring that NFL teams make various … been eliminated since the Rooney Rule but finds no similar time trends in racial differentials in performance for other NFL …

Over the past 15 years, new stadiums in the National Football League have been built at an unprecedented rate, and most … facilities honored public finance principles regarding equity, efficiency, and transparency. An examination of the 20 NFL …

Over the past 15 years, new stadiums in the National Football League have been built at an unprecedented rate, and most … facilities honored public finance principles regarding equity, efficiency, and transparency. An examination of the 20 NFL …

construction boom in professional sport. In the National Football League (NFL) alone, 26 stadiums have been built or renovated in … the past 10 years. Due to the additional revenue generated by these facilities and the NFL’s current revenue sharing … system, professional football franchises are building new stadia for economic reasons rather than to replace unusable or …

This article investigates whether the outcomes of National Football League (NFL) preseason games are predictors of … regular season NFL performance. Using data from the 2002-2010 NFL seasons, the empirical analysis does not find that either a … indicator of regular season performance for the 1970-1991 NFL seasons. Preliminary evidence is presented that suggests that the …

soccer, American football and tennis and also use our framework to compare the performance of empirically applied ranking …