This paper provides a novel contribution to studies of race and labor-market outcomes by using fantasy football statistics as a measure of performance across offensive skill positions and arrest data as a proxy for negative off-the-field behavior. We investigate whether the determinants of salaries and employment vary between 2005-06 and 2015-16, as the 2011 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) introduced extensive regulation of rookie contracts. As expected, fantasy football statistics are strong predictors of salaries and employment in both time periods, whereas race and arrests are not. Fantasy statistics and experience have diminishing marginal returns for both outcomes.

本文通过使用幻想足球统计数据来衡量进攻技能位置的表现，并使用逮捕数据作为负面场外行为的代理，为种族和劳动力市场结果的研究做出了新的贡献。由于2011年集体谈判协议（CBA）引入了对新秀合同的广泛规定，我们调查了2005-06年至2015-16年间工资和就业的决定因素是否有所不同。不出所料，幻想足球的统计数据可以很好地预测两个时期的薪水和就业情况，而种族和逮捕情况却并非如此。幻想的统计数据和经验都降低了两种结果的边际收益。