{"id":299,"date":"2014-02-18T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/?p=299"},"modified":"2014-02-13T06:37:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T06:37:14","slug":"fantasy-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2014\/02\/18\/fantasy-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bored with your fantasy football league? Ever considered switching its basis in sport out for something more exciting, like economics? This not-so-common fantasy of fantasy economics turns out to be a reality. It\u2019s called the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/fantasy.html%0A\">IDEAS Fantasy League<\/a>\u00a0 The league functions just like a fantasy football league except that instead of simulating a sports franchise, the league \u201callows you to pretend you are at the helm of an economics department.\u201d The goal is essentially to stuff your team with economists whose publications receive the most attention: downloads, abstract views, and citations in other publications.<\/p>\n<div>Some interesting nuggets from the rules of play:<\/div>\n<div>-\u201cThere is no play with deceased economists.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>-\u201cA player cannot be part of his\/her own team.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>-\u201cOne can opt out so that one is not being played with. Opting back in is only possible after a one year wait, to prevent this from becoming a strategic move. Someone who opted out cannot play.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>-and because, after all, the players are all economists\u2026 \u201cOne cannot short an economist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>For those of you raring to join in, it looks like our only professor registered through RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/e\/pha114.html\">Wade Hands<\/a>. He represents Puget Sound admirably, though, putting up some impressive stats. He\u2019s produced 38 articles, two books, and is ranked among the top 5% of authors by \u201cNumber of Journal Pages, Weighted by Number of Authors.\u201d Go loggers! Hack hack, chop chop!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bored with your fantasy football league? Ever considered switching its basis in sport out for something more exciting, like economics? This not-so-common fantasy of fantasy economics turns out to be a reality. It\u2019s called the\u00a0IDEAS Fantasy League\u00a0 The league functions just like a fantasy football league except that instead of simulating a sports franchise, the league \u201callows you to pretend you are at the helm of an economics department.\u201d The goal is essentially to stuff your team with economists whose publications receive the most attention: downloads, abstract views, and citations in other publications. Some interesting nuggets from the rules of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2014\/02\/18\/fantasy-economics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Fantasy Economics<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77,78,79,76,81,80,82],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-fantasy-economics-league","tag-fantasy-football","tag-football","tag-ideas","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-wade-hands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}