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The more you win, the more you make

By seema on Jul 21, 2007
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Sources: Yahoo! Sports and USA Today Salary Database (http://asp.usatoday.com/spo...)

Baseball season is in full swing: fans of the United States' traditional national pasttime are flocking to stadiums and TV sets all across the country to get in on the action. Over 160 years since the first official game recorded took place fans are still wild about the peanuts and Cracker Jack, the bases the races, the homers, the strike outs, the ball and the bat. This graph shows the “historical data relating team winning percentages and salary levels (team salary as a percentage of the league's mean salary).” The data was found by user mattsly. Another interesting link to number of wins is the amount that a stadium is filled: it seems to boost moral. Further, with more experience comes better batting averages. —seema

Comments (3)

GB says

Perhaps you have the causality backwords. Is it "The more you make, the more you win?" It may be that teams that win the most win because they have the best, and most highly paid, players rather than the teams that win the most are rewarded with more dollars.

posted about 1 year ago

Devon

Devon says

That is a very good point, GB.

posted about 1 year ago

Matt Sly says

I agree - the winning, for the most part, is a function of salary. Like most things in life, the more money you have, the more likely you are to be successful.

Check out real-time salary adjusted standings based on this data here: http://www.mattsly.com/mlb

posted about 1 year ago