Most overpaid sports?
Discussion
Considering the following factors:
Time spent doing the actual thing they get paid for (so visiting sick kids in hospitals doesn't count)
Skill involved
Risks faced
Earning potential i.e. a golfer may win a few hundred K for winning a tournament but he has to come first in that tournament, same for a snooker player, unlike a footballer on a salary.
I'm going with baseball. Over the course of a three hour game they must spend, what, maybe 5 minutes actually doing something other than standing around?
Time spent doing the actual thing they get paid for (so visiting sick kids in hospitals doesn't count)
Skill involved
Risks faced
Earning potential i.e. a golfer may win a few hundred K for winning a tournament but he has to come first in that tournament, same for a snooker player, unlike a footballer on a salary.
I'm going with baseball. Over the course of a three hour game they must spend, what, maybe 5 minutes actually doing something other than standing around?
I just found an interesting stat on the NFL: there is, on average, only ELEVEN minutes of actual play in an hour long game. ELEVEN minutes, and even then they have separate teams within the teams that play offence and defence so you can half that again! So your average NFL player plays for around 6 minutes a game. SIX! 
Surely it has to be football. Heard something on the radio about some new bloke, £200k a week, A WEEK!!!
So say he plays a full 90mins, a lot of that will be stood around ball watching, trains for 2 hours a day so that's 13.5 hours per week = £14,815 per hour! £246.91 per minute. All that for kicked a cow skin bag of wind around a field.
Then when somebody messes with "his do" that's a month out at least so that's £800,000 for sitting on his hole.
And he isn't even the highest paid player in the premier league.
So say he plays a full 90mins, a lot of that will be stood around ball watching, trains for 2 hours a day so that's 13.5 hours per week = £14,815 per hour! £246.91 per minute. All that for kicked a cow skin bag of wind around a field.
Then when somebody messes with "his do" that's a month out at least so that's £800,000 for sitting on his hole.
And he isn't even the highest paid player in the premier league.
AdamIndy said:
Surely it has to be football. Heard something on the radio about some new bloke, £200k a week, A WEEK!!!
So say he plays a full 90mins, a lot of that will be stood around ball watching, trains for 2 hours a day so that's 13.5 hours per week = £14,815 per hour! £246.91 per minute. All that for kicked a cow skin bag of wind around a field.
Then when somebody messes with "his do" that's a month out at least so that's £800,000 for sitting on his hole.
And he isn't even the highest paid player in the premier league.
Somebody who has some logic with footballer's wages compared to the major risks in other sports such as F1..So say he plays a full 90mins, a lot of that will be stood around ball watching, trains for 2 hours a day so that's 13.5 hours per week = £14,815 per hour! £246.91 per minute. All that for kicked a cow skin bag of wind around a field.
Then when somebody messes with "his do" that's a month out at least so that's £800,000 for sitting on his hole.
And he isn't even the highest paid player in the premier league.
Blib said:
AdamIndy said:
Surely it has to be football.
Nope. See above.If you want to divide his $29,000,000 by the minutes he played.....it works out at £23,500 per game, and when I say per game that's my estimate of 5 minutes per game.
£23,500 for every 5 minutes playing a game that involves nothing more than the threat of bruise from a stray ball every once in a while.
Centurion07 said:
Highest paid baseball player in 2013 made over £367,000 a week. Over 52 weeks.
If you want to divide his $29,000,000 by the minutes he played.....it works out at £23,500 per game, and when I say per game that's my estimate of 5 minutes per game.
£23,500 for every 5 minutes playing a game that involves nothing more than the threat of bruise from a stray ball every once in a while.
Baseball players can get hurt pretty badly-pitchers in particular can get hit by line drives and collisions often happen at the bases, although I'm no expert so I don't know how regularly these things happen.If you want to divide his $29,000,000 by the minutes he played.....it works out at £23,500 per game, and when I say per game that's my estimate of 5 minutes per game.
£23,500 for every 5 minutes playing a game that involves nothing more than the threat of bruise from a stray ball every once in a while.
I don't like football so I'd usually be the first to criticise. But. I've a good mate who's an ex premiership player and to gey there he basically had to give up the first 30years of his life to the sport. Serious limitations on having any kind of fun, hard training and lots of injuries along the way.
I won't be getting the violin out for him like but it's not that easy to get there, and stay there.
I won't be getting the violin out for him like but it's not that easy to get there, and stay there.
I'm going to throw Tennis into the hat. Best past for £30k for crashing out in the first round of any grand slam. Tim Henman never won a grand slam career earnings £17million! Tournaments all year round not tens of thousands competing for places like in football which seems very very few earning the mega bucks. Not that many injuries, a long career and on top of your earnings playing you also get sponsorship and unlike F1 nobody dies playing tennis.
dave_s13 said:
I won't be getting the violin out for him like but it's not that easy to get there, and stay there.
Yep, fair points, but he was still overpaid for what he did, plus if you ask any professional sportsperson if they'd rather have had a regular 9 to 5 than a career in their chosen sport, I reckon you'd be hard pushed to find one that would take the 9 to 5.Centurion07 said:
Yep, fair points, but he was still overpaid for what he did, plus if you ask any professional sportsperson if they'd rather have had a regular 9 to 5 than a career in their chosen sport, I reckon you'd be hard pushed to find one that would take the 9 to 5.
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