Questions tagged [finances]
Questions about financial information in sports. This includes compensation for professional athletes and other employees and revenue/expenses for sports organizations and teams. Questions using this tag should also be tagged with the specific sport(s) in question.
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In what way do professional athletes (MLB, NHL, NFL, NBA) get paid?
I've always wondered how this worked. If a player is getting paid $5,000,000 a year, how do they get that salary? Do they receive it at the beginning of the season as a lump sum? Or do they receive ...
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How much do IPL players get paid if they don't play all games in a season?
Two players in IPL 6 (2013), Ricky Ponting and Glen Maxwell, were bought in the player auction for large sums (Ponting close to half a million and Maxwell over 1 million dollars).
Neither of these ...
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How are IPL players paid?
In the Indian Premier League, the players are auctioned to the different teams and their salaries depends on the auction amount. But who pays them, does the IPL administration pay them or do the team ...
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Why doesn't the MLB implement a salary cap?
I was reading an article in FiveThirtyEight a few months back which described the NBA as one of the most lopsided leagues in North America. By that it meant that the same teams tended to be successful,...
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What happens when a baseball player is “DFA'ed” and then signs with another team?
I'm asking specifically about Pablo Sandoval, who signed a five year contract with Boston Red Sox, and is now owed $18 million each for 2018 and 2019, plus the balance of his 2017 salary. He was ...
