Teaching a graduate level sport finance class can be quite complex. With a variety of concepts such as pricing, budgeting, and public funding, to convey in a limited amount of time, new forms of pedagogy are necessary to assist instructors as this technologically-advanced generation enters into academia. Subsequently, technology has been created to apply basic concepts related to finance to the complexity of a professional sports organization. One such program is the Oakland A’s Baseball Business Simulator. Through interviews and “emotional recall” (Ellis, 2004), this evaluative case study seeks to determine the effectiveness of this technology within this environment.
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The Use of Simulation Technology in Sport Finance Courses: The Case of the Oakland A’s Baseball Business Simulator
Joris Drayer and Daniel A. Rascher
What Is the Sport Industry?
Nola Agha and Jess C. Dixon
). These range from service-based business-to-consumer organizations that sell participatory sport (e.g., Little League) to elite, profit-maximizing spectator sports in both team and individual sports. Examples include Pop Warner youth football, the Savannah Bananas minor league baseball team, the National
Eliminating Barriers to Youth Sport in Greenville, North Carolina
Emma O’Brien, Stacy M. Warner, and Melanie Sartore-Baldwin
League Baseball, but trends toward privatization and specialization have shifted the landscape ( Coakley, 2010 ). The average household income of families whose children participate in formalized youth sports is $90,908, much higher than U.S. average of $59,039 (see Supplementary Figures 1 and 2
Applications of Data Literacy to Course Design in Sport Performance Analytics
Nathan David Pifer, Angela Lumpkin, and Thomas Henry
, where the Moneyball ( Lewis, 2004 ) story and the sabermetrics that inspired it helped popularize analytics among key stakeholders in baseball, the insights provided by proper data analysis are being used to guide decision makers in the labor market and during competitions in a growing number of
Application of Social Work Theory in Sport Management Curriculum: Ecological Systems Theory
Amy E. Cox, Lauren Beasley, and Robin Hardin
macrolevel societal culture and belief systems. Finally, the chronosystem includes changes in time and eras in which an individual is living. A sport-specific example is the “steroid era” in baseball. A professional baseball player playing in the steroid era is going to have a different playing experience
From the Other Side: Supervisor Perspectives on Paid Versus Unpaid Sport Management Internships
Rachel M. Madsen, Heidi Grappendorf, Heidi M. Parker, and Cynthia Veraldo
summer collegiate baseball, one for high school sport, and one in youth sport. Supervisors had an average of 10.6 years of experience supervising interns, with the range being 1–22 years. Of the 21 supervisors interviewed, 10 of them offered paid internships, eight offered unpaid internships, three
The Marshall Plan: How Diversity and Inclusion Transformed the Dallas Mavericks’ Organizational Culture
Mark A. Beattie and Leeann M. Lower-Hoppe
League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), and Major League Soccer (MLS), women hold fewer than a third of senior management positions, and fewer than 10% of chief executive officer (CEO)/president positions (data are as of 2018 for NFL, MLB, and MLS, and as of 2019 for NBA; “ The Racial and Gender
A Foot in the Door: An Examination of Professional Sport Internship Job Announcements
Liz Sattler and Rebecca Achen
(National Football League), NHL (National Hockey League), MLS (Major League Soccer), MLB (Major League Baseball), and WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association), as well as many minor-league sport organizations, resulting in an employer database of 7,678 as of 2020 (JobsInSports.com). The websites were
Aligning the Classroom and the Job Through Team-Based Learning
Emily Dane-Staples
). Figure 2 —Structure of 4S application exercise for sport and social media course. Note . Team directions: Your team is the content editors for a Major League Baseball franchise. In preparation for an upcoming event, staff created four options for your social media platforms. Using the six principles of
Teaching Information Synthesis Using the National Football League Draft
Bradley J. Baker
mathematics and statistics to understand data from baseball, football, basketball, and other sports . CRC Press . Silver , N. ( 2012 ). The signal and the noise: Why so many predictions fail—But some don’t . Penguin . Silver , N. ( 2020 ). How FiveThirtyEight’s 2020 presidential forecast works
