Document Type
Article
Date
3-4-2024
Keywords
marginal revenue product, football, college athletics, rents
Language
English
Disciplines
Sports Sciences
Description/Abstract
Over the past decade, the issue of player compensation in college sports has been the subject of several successful legal challenges. Athletes contend that the compensation they receive falls significantly short of the value they generate, attributing this gaps to unlawful NCAA restrictions. Numerous tools exist in the sport economic literature that estimate the value of colelge athletes, with an emphasized focus towards premium college football players. In addition to providing updated estimate of player marginal revenue product (MRP), we review past and contemporary methodologies for esitmating colllege player MRPs. We contend that, while presenting some evidence that restrictions on player compensation resulted in the extraction of the majority of the value generated by top college athletes, existing methods leave considerable uncertainty over the magnitude of exploration.
Recommended Citation
Losak, Jeremy M.; Posmanick, Benjamin J.; and Sauer, Raymond, "On The Value of a Premium College Football Player: Evaluating the Literature" (2024). Sport Management - All Scholarship. 66.
https://surface.syr.edu/sportmanagement/66
Source
submission
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