{Thread From Yesteryear-correct link posted later in the thread}"The Saints Ain't Sinners" (op-ed by 2 AEI economists in LA Times - merged)

Sophandros said

That's kind of the point behind my conclusion, which is that the league took a major leap to go from pay for performance to pay for injury.

Pay for performance pools are effective motivational tactics in the normal business world (I've done a little bit of work in incentive compensation earlier in my career), but they also inadvertently encourage unethical conduct from time to time, once people figure out how to game the system. But that's an EE discussion...

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Oh ok, it's a matter of semantics. I picked up on the word "incentivize" in your first post and clarified that the Saints actually DID do that, just not for injuries. Tomato/tomahto, or for Goodell, tomato/bounty. :hihi:

But still, I must say, I posted this LA Times article on Facebook, and of all bounty-related links I've posted (which is a lot), this one seemed to get the most attention of my FB friends, perhaps because I have a lot of fellow academics as FB friends.