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Post by glenn on Nov 18, 2013 15:57:17 GMT -5
Here's another way to measure salaries: to win 100 games, how much does a victory cost? For 2001, the highest price would be paid by the Yankees, at $1.42 million per win. Considering they have $426 million in total finances, I guess it would be worth it to them. After all, they've won three straight World Series titles (1998-2000). Yikes!
(Remember I'm speaking in PS terms, not real-life salaries).
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Post by catknight on Nov 19, 2013 0:03:43 GMT -5
Fair enough glenn, but usually when you make that kind of calculation, you need to account for replacement level play. It is generally assumed that a replacement level team (all AAAs) can win 30% of their games, or 48. www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/minimum_salaryAccording to this, the minimum salary in 2001 was somewhere between 200K and 300K. Let's call it 250K x 25 players So replacement level = 48 wins = $6.25 million dollars. To be able to measure the Yankees' level of performance compared to other teams, we need to subtract the replacement level play out: 100 - 48 = 52 extra wins $142 - $6.25 = $135.75 million They paid $2,610,576 per win for wins 49-100 ------- We can't know for sure if this is high without looking at other teams, but again using the BR Bullpen site we can guess. By working with the figures from 2000 and 2005, we can guess the average salary in 2001 was $2,124,958. Multiply by 25 for an average team payroll of $53,123,950. (Plug your own experience from PureSim in here) Our average team will win 81 games. The first 48 of them cost $6.25m as above. The other 33 (81-48) games cost $46,873,950 ($53.1m - 6.25m). This averages out to $1,420,422/game.In your 'world' the Yankee GM is probably considered a success, but in fact he's paying 84% more per win than the average team, and so he's not very good. As you say, though, he can afford it. |
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Post by glenn on Nov 19, 2013 20:07:59 GMT -5
Ok, catknight, I should've known that there was a complicated calculation for this. I just simplified matters for a 60-man total roster in PS. I suppose I'll wait to finish out my 2001 season, and then see who won the most cheaply.
Of course, the very reason I started this campaign was to see if my Pirates (market size 45) can win a division title before I turn 50 (that happened in 2007). Right now, at the age of 44 (in June 2001) I'm 27-45. My first goal is to do better than the real-life Bucs (they finished 62-100). The second step is to see if I can GM better than my real-life counterpart (who was David Littlefield).
Wearing the dual hats of GM and day-to-day field manager offers its own challenges, and right now neither role is very rewarding.
My total payroll is $54.1 million, and I have $41.7 million as cash reserves. If nothing else, I should be near the top of the draft pickings for 2002.
Obviously, though, I don't want to wait 20 years between winning seasons.
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