About Offseason Champs

I created this blog for one reason: to satisfy my intellectual curiosity. My career has fortuitously taken me from data management, data analysis, and statistical programming to business, finance, and strategy.  As my professional skills developed, so has the way that I view sports. Much analysis is available on film breakdowns and tactical schematics; very little is available on the business aspects of building a sports franchise. The latter is what I hope to explore.

Ultimately, sports are a business--and not just from a profit and loss perspective. Whether it's a league with a salary cap or without, games are won and lost by players, each of whom costs money. Every front office in every sport faces a business decision when selecting its roster: it makes investments in players (via contracts) and expects returns (in the form of wins). How should a front office value a player? What percent of salary cap should a front office allocate to a particular talent? How many wins should a front office expect if it makes that investment? What is the opportunity cost? 

Using fundamentals of valuation, finance, and strategy while incorporating lessons from cognitive science and behavioral economics, this blog will attempt to explore each of these questions--and more.