Learn to make the decisions behind the game.
BOW Sports Capital teaches middle and high school students economics, finance, and strategy by putting them in the chair where the calls actually get made.
Sports are the entry point. Decision-making is the education.
BOW doesn’t teach sports trivia. Students run into the same constraints real front offices face — and defend the calls they make.
- Opportunity Cost
- Incentives
- Salary-Cap Constraints
- Marginal Value
- Risk & Uncertainty
- Market Power
- Revenue Tradeoffs
- Negotiation
- Long-Term Value
- Leadership
- 01The BriefThe economic concept arrives as a problem on your desk: the context, the constraints, and the call you have to make.
- 02The StoryA BOW Sports Capital podcast episode grounds the idea in how the sports world actually operates.
- 03The DecisionYou take the role and make the call inside the simulation — real options, incomplete information, no obviously right answer.
- 04The ConsequenceThe world responds. You live with the result and defend your reasoning.
Don’t just learn the decision. Make it.
Every lesson ends in an interactive brief: take the role, weigh what you know against what you don’t, and live with the result.
Your franchise point guard wants a max extension. The cap says you can't afford it next summer. What do you do tonight?
Choose your path into sports business.
Build the foundation.
Learn the essential ideas behind sports economics, team building, finance, and front-office decision-making.
- 4 modules
- 12 lessons
- 12 connected simulations
- Podcast connections
Take control of harder decisions.
Apply deeper economic thinking to more complex front-office situations, competing priorities, and strategic tradeoffs.
- 4 modules
- 12 lessons
- 12 connected simulations
- Podcast connections
Built and counted, not projected.
“I stopped memorizing and started arguing about decisions. That changed how I see every trade.”
“It's the first thing my son has called homework and a game in the same sentence.”
“The economics finally had stakes my students cared about — the cap sheet did what the textbook couldn't.”
“I put my BOW certificate and profile on my college application. It showed I could actually run the numbers.”
However you got here, there’s a door.
Offer a modern, discussion-driven economics and sports-business program that fits your classroom and schedule.
Bring BOW to your schoolCampsHigh-energy workshops and short simulations built for camp schedules — no economics background needed.
See camp formatsYouth OrgsFlexible enrichment through workshops or structured courses — adaptable to almost any format or age group.
See workshop optionsPartnersConnect sports, business, media, education, and community engagement through a program built to develop strategic thinkers.
Explore a partnership- One-Time Workshop
- 60–90 MIN
- Multi-Session Course
- 4–8 WEEKS
- Full-Track Program
- 1 SEMESTER
- Camp Experience
- 1–5 DAYS
- Custom Sports-Business Event
- FLEXIBLE
The conversations behind the decisions.
Each episode connects sports headlines, front-office strategy, and business concepts to the decisions students make throughout the curriculum.
- EP 07Salary Cap
The Apron Era: How One Rule Rewired the League
38 MIN · TRACK 101 · M3 L2 - EP 06Team Building
Stars, Role Players, and the Math of a Contender
41 MIN · TRACK 101 · M2 L1 - EP 05Ownership
Who Really Pays When a Team Wins?
35 MIN · TRACK 201 · M1 L3 - EP 04Sports Economics
Opportunity Cost, Explained in Trades
33 MIN · TRACK 101 · M1 L2
Help us teach the next generation of sports decision-makers.
Teaching with BOW is a volunteer role. We provide the curriculum and the training. You bring preparation, judgment, and the willingness to improve.
- 01Clear hiring process
- 02Training before assignment
- 03Real work with evidence
- 04Coaching and growth