Test your basketball knowledge
Which of the following is true? [Answers are in the comments section.]
1. Team payroll and team wins are not strongly correlated in the major U.S. sports?
2. Labor disputes and lock-outs do not have a long-run negative effect on attendance and receipts?
3. Problems of competitive balance come from the distribution of playing talent, and sports leagues do not much remedy the problem by salary caps and the like?
4. In the NBA, team wins attract crowds more than does star power?
5. The great NBA players do less to make their teammates better than is often supposed; in fact many great players make their teammates worse?
6. In statistical terms, the better players do not play much better, if at all, during the NBA playoffs?
7. NBA decision-makers do not seem to understand the value of players. In particular they tend to overvalue scoring?
Quiz comes via Marginal Revolution and their sources was the book “Wages of Win“.
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May 21st, 2006 at 9:27 am
Per Marginal Revolution which got them from the book “Wages of Win,” linked above, none of the 7 statements above are true. They are all myths. I haven’t read the book but Tyler from Marginal Revolution has.