Untangling the NFL Pt. 2 – Offensive Value

It may be strange to begin a football column by talking about Survivor, the television series, but I’m going to do so anyway. This is for multiple reasons: I love Survivor almost as much as I love football, this is my website, and I typically use it to write about things I love. Despite theirContinue reading “Untangling the NFL Pt. 2 – Offensive Value”

Untangling the NFL Pt. 1: A Brief History of “Value”

What does it mean to have value? For most people, value boils down to describing the importance or worth of something on its own when isolated from other factors. From Karl Marx to Andrei Shleifer, scholars have struggled to define and measure “value” as it pertains to the biggest economic, political, and cultural institutions inContinue reading “Untangling the NFL Pt. 1: A Brief History of “Value””