define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); economists – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:05:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court College Basketball’s Unmentionable: the Issue of Point Shaving? http://rushthecourt.net/2010/09/13/college-basketballs-unmentionable-point-shaving/ http://rushthecourt.net/2010/09/13/college-basketballs-unmentionable-point-shaving/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:11:14 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=24158

It’s not often that we stumble across academic research papers these days, but last week we happened upon one from the Department of Economics at Temple University in Philadelphia entitled, “Point Shaving in NCAA Basketball: Corrupt Behavior or Statistical Artifact?”  In the paper, Professors George Diemer and Mike Leeds use various statistical analyses to conclude that not only does point shaving regularly occur in college basketball, but it occurs in two specifically defined situations.  Their conclusion builds upon prior work by Professor Justin Wolfers at Penn’s Wharton School, who found a few years ago that approximately 1% of lined NCAA basketball games fell into an outlier suggestive of gambling-related [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2010/09/13/college-basketballs-unmentionable-point-shaving/feed/ 5