University of Guelph study proves NBA player salaries affect playing time
Watching the NBA playoffs, Alexander Hinton had the same frustration a lot of fans do: the coach of his favourite team was keeping big-name players on the floor and unheralded bench players with a hot hand weren’t getting a chance.
Fortunately, Hinton was in a position to prove his hunch.
Hinton and Prof. Yiguo Sun from the University of Guelph have published a research paper in the journal Empirical Economics that found that professional basketball players being paid high salaries tend to get slightly more playing time than their on-court performance suggests they deserve.