To help achieve a better understanding of how comparable professional athletes are in their respective sports, looking at the top 100 earners in each sport will help. The MLB dominates other sports in average salary for the top 100 earners with 16.4 million dollars. Although the MLB has the highest average salary for the top 100 earners in the sport, they are being undervalued. “On average, teams are undervaluing players by 357,836.64” (Pearce). Since athletes in baseball seem to make the most on average, franchises can get away with not paying an athlete what they are actually worth. Next comes the NBA with their top 100 earners earning an average salary of 11.9 million dollars followed by the NFL with 8.9 million dollars. However, with the
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Unlike the other sports leagues, baseball has no salary cap (Hills and Gregory, pg. 1). A salary cap can be defined as “a league mandated maximum dollar amount an individual team can spend on total player’s salaries, and serves as a mechanism to limit the available dollars each franchise may use to compensate their players” (Mondello and Maxcy, pg. 3). So, while other professional sports have a salary cap for each franchise, like the NFL with a salary cap of 133 million dollars per team, the MLB has no limit for how much each franchise is allowed to spend on compensating their players (Hills and Gregory, pg. …show more content…
In the NFL, an individual incentive may include “statistical accomplishments, e.g. touchdowns scored, touchdowns caught, physical conditioning benchmarks including weight limits, and rankings compared to other position players” (Mondello and Moxcy, pg.6). Professional athletes have multiple opportunities to earn more income for themselves. If they play up to their highest potential, athletes can get compensated for. A team incentive may include “winning games, conference championships, or the Super Bowl, total points scored, yards accumulated, and team rankings in several statistical categories, and touchdowns yielded, number of yards allowed, or sacks registered” (Mondello and Moxcy, pg. 6). Even if an individual player does not have the opportunity to earn individual incentives or fails to meet his incentive, the team as a whole can perform well enough so that each individual can earn more
Unlike the other sports leagues, baseball has no salary cap (Hills and Gregory, pg. 1). A salary cap can be defined as “a league mandated maximum dollar amount an individual team can spend on total player’s salaries, and serves as a mechanism to limit the available dollars each franchise may use to compensate their players” (Mondello and Maxcy, pg. 3). So, while other professional sports have a salary cap for each franchise, like the NFL with a salary cap of 133 million dollars per team, the MLB has no limit for how much each franchise is allowed to spend on compensating their players (Hills and Gregory, pg. …show more content…
In the NFL, an individual incentive may include “statistical accomplishments, e.g. touchdowns scored, touchdowns caught, physical conditioning benchmarks including weight limits, and rankings compared to other position players” (Mondello and Moxcy, pg.6). Professional athletes have multiple opportunities to earn more income for themselves. If they play up to their highest potential, athletes can get compensated for. A team incentive may include “winning games, conference championships, or the Super Bowl, total points scored, yards accumulated, and team rankings in several statistical categories, and touchdowns yielded, number of yards allowed, or sacks registered” (Mondello and Moxcy, pg. 6). Even if an individual player does not have the opportunity to earn individual incentives or fails to meet his incentive, the team as a whole can perform well enough so that each individual can earn more