Soccer leagues around the world use a promotion-and-relegation system to reward the best teams and punish the worst. We ask whether American sports fans would enjoy a similar system. (Part two of a <a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/the-merger-you-never-knew-you-wanted/">two-part series</a>.) <ul><li>SOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://x.com/foxworth24?lang=en">Domonique Foxworth</a>, sports analyst and former N.F.L. player.</li><li><a href="https://www.kines.umich.edu/directory/stefan-szymanski">Stefan Szymanski</a>, professor of sport management at the University of Michigan.</li><li><a href="https://www.holycross.edu/academics/people/victor-matheson">Victor Matheson</a>, professor of economics at the College of the Holy Cross.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>RESOURCES:<ul><li>"'<a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5579610">Root, root, root for the home team" did TV kill minor league baseball in the 1950s?</a>" by Stefan Szymanski (University of Michigan, 2025).</li><li>"<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-68479-1_8">European and North American Sports Differences (?): A Quarter Century on</a>," by Stefan Szymanski (Principles and Paradoxes of Sports Economics, 2024).</li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/48mlSQ8">National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer</a>, by Stefan Szymanski and Andrew Zimbalist (2006).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>EXTRAS:<ul><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/when-is-a-superstar-just-another-employee-update/">When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee? (Update)</a>," by Freakonomics Radio (2025).</li><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-longest-long-shot/">The Longest Long Shot</a>," by Freakonomics Radio (2016).</li></ul></li></ul> Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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