Do Baseball Salaries Correspond with winning
The Oakland A’s immediately come to mind when you ask that question. They are one of the “small market” clubs that has to have a low payroll, and they regularly lose good players to free agency and yet still do quite well. In the BCBL we don’t care about salaries at all, so I was wondering if the teams that have higher priced baseball players won more than teams that did not. I have created a $’s per win table <actually millions of dollars per win table is more like it>.
|
Club |
wins |
payroll |
$ per win |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Maryland |
115 |
96 |
0.83 |
|
North |
114 |
49 |
0.43 |
|
Rhode
Island |
106 |
105 |
0.99 |
|
Devon |
101 |
93 |
0.92 |
|
New
Castle |
97 |
91 |
0.94 |
|
Crimea |
86 |
136 |
1.58 |
|
Hillsboro |
85 |
51 |
0.60 |
|
Blacksburg |
85 |
74 |
0.87 |
|
Central
Jersey |
82 |
118 |
1.44 |
|
Raritan |
81 |
49 |
0.60 |
|
New
Jersey |
80 |
70 |
0.88 |
|
Fairfield |
77 |
116 |
1.51 |
|
Bug
Tussle |
71 |
73 |
1.03 |
|
Macon |
71 |
75 |
1.06 |
|
Parkside |
70 |
35 |
0.50 |
|
Point
Loma |
69 |
51 |
0.74 |
|
West Side |
65 |
60 |
0.92 |
|
Alaska |
64 |
79 |
1.23 |
|
Frankfort
Sq |
61 |
48 |
0.79 |
|
Jedi |
60 |
42 |
0.70 |
The short answer is no. The North club has one of the smallest payrolls in the BCBL, and you can’t argue with its success this year. My own Fairfield club has the 3rd highest payroll in the BCBL and the cost per win is a whopping 1.5 million. North does it with 430,000. Of course I carried Aaron Sele with a $7 million plus salary and didn’t even play him at all this year. Baseballs odd system of underpaying the young players, and then signing long term contracts for old players that seemingly can never make economic sense in their later years (Mo Vaughn and his $12 million plus comes to mind), seem to make sure that in our league the cost of the players and their value don’t have any correlation. At least we get to cut the guys that deserve it, instead of being forced to play them because we are paying them too much.