I have been researching sports salaries. What I've been discovering is the reasons that some salaries are justified and unjustified. I have looked at 5 different sports leagues. MLB NFL NHL NBA WNBA. I have looked at salary per game for each sport, and how many spectators each sport has.
I will continue to research but add in tv revenue. I also want to look into Olympic athletes. They train for for years only to compete for 2 weeks, how do they make their money and is it enough?
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Showing posts with label 1-nick-sports salaries. Show all posts
Friday, November 16, 2012
Does the number of spectators increase salary?
Above shows a graph I constructed to show the comparison of spectators per game compared to average salary per game.
What does this data mean? Are there any outliers to the data?
What sport looks like it gets unfairly paid?
WNBA Salaries
After researching the top 4 sports salaries, I decided to look at a sport not as popular as the others, Womens Basketball.
I assumed that they would not get payed as much as basketball players, but to my surprise, on average, wnba players make $55,000. This is only one one hundredth of what the nba average salary is.
What other factors besides fan attendance contributes to this difference of pay?
Thursday, November 15, 2012
UPDATED Chart of sports salaries
Regular season salary
|
Per game
|
||
MLB
162 games
30,352 spg
|
max
|
$30,000,000
|
$185,185
|
avg
|
$3,310,000
|
$20,432
|
|
min
|
$480,000
|
$2,962
|
|
NFL
16 games
67,509 spg
|
max
|
$19,035,000
|
$1,189,687
|
avg
|
$1,900,000
|
$118,750
|
|
min
|
$390,000
|
$24,375
|
|
NHL
82 games
17,460 spg
|
max
|
$14,000,000
|
$170,731
|
avg
|
$2,400,000
|
$29,268
|
|
min
|
$525,000
|
$6,402
|
|
NBA
82 games
15,860 spg
|
max
|
$68,700,000
|
$837,804
|
avg
|
$5,150,000
|
$62,804
|
|
min
|
$480,000
|
$5,853
|
|
I have updated the chart adding the spectators per game (spg)
Monday, October 29, 2012
Professional salaries per game
Below is a chart of the per game salaries of the max avg and min professional sports athletes.
Websites used : wikipedia.com, baseballsalaries.com, footballsalaries.com, cbssports.com
Websites used : wikipedia.com, baseballsalaries.com, footballsalaries.com, cbssports.com
Regular season salary
|
Per game
|
||
MLB
162 games
|
max
|
$30,000,000
|
$185,185
|
avg
|
$3,310,000
|
$20,432
|
|
min
|
$480,000
|
$2,962
|
|
NFL
16 games
|
max
|
$19,035,000
|
$1,189,687
|
avg
|
$1,900,000
|
$118,750
|
|
min
|
$390,000
|
$24,375
|
|
NHL
82 games
|
max
|
$14,000,000
|
$170,731
|
avg
|
$2,400,000
|
$29,268
|
|
min
|
$525,000
|
$6,402
|
|
NBA
82 games
|
max
|
$68,700,000
|
$837,804
|
avg
|
$5,150,000
|
$62,804
|
|
min
|
$480,000
|
$5,853
|
|
All calculations done by myself.
Does it make sense that football players make so much per game compared to other athletes?
Does it make sense that football players make so much per game compared to other athletes?
Thursday, October 4, 2012
How unfairly are athletes paid from sport to sport
why im studying
I am studying this because i am interested to see how differently people get paid for playing different sports. Also what differences in the sport correlate to more money
what i know
i know that on average the highest paid are baseball and football, but baseball plays 162 games and football plays 16
baseballplayersalaries.com
footballplayersalaries.com
I am studying this because i am interested to see how differently people get paid for playing different sports. Also what differences in the sport correlate to more money
what i know
i know that on average the highest paid are baseball and football, but baseball plays 162 games and football plays 16
baseballplayersalaries.com
footballplayersalaries.com
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