How important is recruiting to a football program's success? While prior research has attempted to answer this question, we utilize an extensive panel set covering 13 years of games along with a two stage least squares approach to investigate the effects of recruiting on team success. We also...

We estimate the relationship between international youth and professional tennis rankings. We find no difference between the predictiveness of rankings from age 14 & Under versus age 16 & Under competitions. The most persistent predictor of professional success is beating older top ranked...

The establishment of the free agency system in the 1970s resulted in large salary increases among professional baseball players. Historical data show that players have tended to perform better at early stages of their careers since free agency was introduced. Under the current salary bargaining...