Resources of the Week: Niche Statistics
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
In the course of the average workweek, we are often asked for something that involves statistics. Surprisingly, someone out there is collecting information no matter what the subject. Check out this sports business data collection. (You may need to do this off campus because your computer here is likely to be blocked from sports-related sites.)
Rodney Fort’s Sports Economics: Sports Business Data
Professor Fort, who teaches at the University of Michigan, is one of the nation’s preeminent sports economists. The collection of data here is staggering in both depth and breadth. Fort has assembled years of salary, attendance, and financial information for Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, the National Hockey League, and English and European football associations. If it’s not here, you are likely to have a very difficult time trying to find it — especially for free, on the open Web.
Source: Resource Shelf July 2008
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