by A.J. Coltrane
ESPN has published a list of the 200 best-paying teams. The top 10:
| Rank | Team | Average Annual Salary Per Player |
| 1 | Barcelona | $7,910,737.00 |
| 2 | Real Madrid | $7,356,632.00 |
| 3 | New York Yankees | $6,756,301.00 |
| 4 | Los Angeles Lakers | $6,540,690.00 |
| 5 | Orlando Magic | $6,367,114.00 |
| 6 | Chelsea | $6,020,741.00 |
| 7 | Inter Milan | $5,999,643.00 |
| 8 | Boston Red Sox | $5,991,203.00 |
| 9 | Denver Nuggets | $5,990,174.00 |
| 10 | Manchester City | $5,863,585.00 |
The M’s are #71 at $2.88m per player, the Seahawks are #80 at $2.80m per player — The top NFL team is the Redskins at #70, $2.91m per player.
In fact:
| Soccer | Baseball | Basketball | Football | Rank |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | Top 10 |
| 10 | 6 | 9 | 0 | Top 25 |
| 16 | 11 | 23 | 0 | Top 50 |
Most of the NBA is clustered between $4.5 and $3.8 million per player per team, which happens to fall in the #26-#50 range.
Here’s an odd one: The top paying NHL team, the Detroit Red Wings, pay better than the best paying NFL team, the Washington Redskins. I hadn’t expected the NHL to pay that well. That’s also a byproduct of the NFL’s 20 game schedule and a 53-man rosters.
I’ve used All About The Benjamins elsewhere, so here’s Weird Al’s “All About The Pentiums.”
Check out the lyrics.
“Double clickin on my mizouse!”
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