Post by eric on Jul 26, 2018 20:54:37 GMT
I was curious about how productive the most paid players of all time were in the major sports, so I got the top twenty earners off of spotrac and their production off of sports-reference and here are the results:
The NBA narrowly gets the most bang for its buck and the NFL gets by far the least. Now let's look at the individual players:
Millions of dollars earned, wins generated, thousands of dollars spent per win, and "value" is how close the player came to the most efficient player in their sport.
"Hey wait a minute, poindexter," I hear you cry, "are you tryin' to tell me the great Drew Brees was only worth ten wins over his whole career?"
Yes.
Yes I am.
NBA I used Win Shares since those are the best, MLB I used sports-reference's WAR (which isn't precisely comparable since it's above replacement instead of straight wins but what can you do), NFL I used Approximate Value and multiplied it by 8/200 since AV is built on an average team accruing 100 points on each side of the ball, and average teams end up with 8 wins. To test this model I tallied that 1599 players generated 6564 AV in the 2017 season, which works out to .0390, which is close enough in my book.
LeBron James is #1. Ryan Howard is the WOAT contract.
$ W $/W league
4,370,924,455 2,787 1,568,590 NBA
4,473,795,552 1,266 3,534,362 MLB
3,171,176,807 125 25,459,030 NFLThe NBA narrowly gets the most bang for its buck and the NFL gets by far the least. Now let's look at the individual players:
NBA
m$ W k$/W value name
334 191 1,746 61 Kevin Garnett
323 173 1,872 57 Kobe Bryant
286 182 1,576 68 Shaquille O'Neal
247 206 1,197 89 Dirk Nowitzki
240 206 1,164 92 Tim Duncan
234 219 1,066 100 LeBron James
227 101 2,257 47 Carmelo Anthony
215 83 2,593 41 Joe Johnson
212 106 2,002 53 Chris Bosh
210 128 1,639 65 Dwight Howard
199 143 1,392 77 Pau Gasol
195 150 1,301 82 Paul Pierce
194 118 1,640 65 Dwyane Wade
187 165 1,133 94 Chris Paul
185 81 2,279 47 Zach Randolph
182 145 1,257 85 Ray Allen
182 139 1,314 81 Jason Kidd
178 85 2,105 51 Chris Webber
172 99 1,726 62 Tyson Chandler
168 66 2,541 42 Jermaine O'Neal
MLB
m$ W k$/W value name
445 118 3,779 46 Alex Rodriguez
270 100 2,694 64 Albert Pujols
266 72 3,677 47 Derek Jeter
256 62 4,160 42 C.C. Sabathia
250 69 3,606 48 Miguel Cabrera
246 70 3,521 49 Carlos Beltran
223 69 3,218 54 Manny Ramirez
223 55 4,060 43 Joe Mauer
220 95 2,326 74 Adrian Beltre
218 52 4,202 41 Mark Teixeira
201 61 3,277 53 Justin Verlander
193 52 3,742 46 Felix Hernandez
191 65 2,955 59 Zack Greinke
191 15 12,706 14 Ryan Howard
186 24 7,876 22 Prince Fielder
183 52 3,538 49 Johan Santana
180 42 4,270 41 Adrian Gonzalez
179 39 4,569 38 Carl Crawford
177 53 3,317 52 Cole Hamels
175 101 1,732 100 Randy Johnson
NFL
m$ W k$/W value name
249 11 22,946 59 Peyton Manning
219 6 36,547 37 Eli Manning
197 10 19,330 70 Tom Brady
195 10 20,367 66 Drew Brees
188 7 26,542 51 Philip Rivers
174 6 30,660 44 Carson Palmer
170 7 24,896 54 Ben Roethlisberger
162 4 40,445 33 Matthew Stafford
160 7 22,343 60 Julius Peppers
151 5 31,260 43 Larry Fitzgerald
149 6 24,910 54 Matt Ryan
138 10 13,513 100 Brett Favre
137 6 21,838 62 Aaron Rodgers
136 4 32,028 42 Joe Flacco
127 5 27,462 49 Tony Romo
125 5 27,602 49 Michael Vick
124 4 34,125 40 Ndamukong Suh
124 4 29,295 46 Darrelle Revis
123 4 28,974 47 Joe Thomas
122 4 28,027 48 Jay CutlerMillions of dollars earned, wins generated, thousands of dollars spent per win, and "value" is how close the player came to the most efficient player in their sport.
"Hey wait a minute, poindexter," I hear you cry, "are you tryin' to tell me the great Drew Brees was only worth ten wins over his whole career?"
Yes.
Yes I am.
NBA I used Win Shares since those are the best, MLB I used sports-reference's WAR (which isn't precisely comparable since it's above replacement instead of straight wins but what can you do), NFL I used Approximate Value and multiplied it by 8/200 since AV is built on an average team accruing 100 points on each side of the ball, and average teams end up with 8 wins. To test this model I tallied that 1599 players generated 6564 AV in the 2017 season, which works out to .0390, which is close enough in my book.
LeBron James is #1. Ryan Howard is the WOAT contract.
