Is Winning Everything?: A Data Envelopment Analysis of Major League Baseball and the National Football League

Journal of Sports Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-151

  Einolf, Karl W ^a  

^a Mount St Mary's College   (United States)

Author keywords

data envelopment analysis; DEA; economics; efficiency; league finance; market size; MLB; NFL; payroll; revenue sharing; sports

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990350728     PISSN: 15270025     EISSN: 15527794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527002503254047     Document Type: Article

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