SmartMoney: What NFL coaches and investors have in common

Release Date: September 22, 2011 This content is archived.

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An article in SmartMoney reports on new research by Jun Zhuang, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering, that suggests National Football League coaches struggle with a behavioral mistake also common to stock market investors: they focus so intently on not giving up ground that they gain less of it than they should. The research was published in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.

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