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[–] 7 points 10 months ago

It's interesting to look at how much money the players make in different sports, as a percentage of total sport revenue.

In the EPL (English soccer) you can find it broken down by team, with most of the top teams around 50%–70%, and league-wide they average 71%.

The IPL (Indian T20 cricket) on the other hand, players earn just 18% in the poorest teams (and even worse in the top teams).

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2023/03/29/think-ipl-players-paid-should-paid-three-times/

The NBA (American basketball) gives about 50% (though WNBA is single-digits), NFL (gridiron football) is at 48%, and NHL (hockey) is 50%.

The NRL (Australian rugby league) is less than 30% or around 41%, depending on which source you look at, and the AFL (Aussie rules football) is at around 32%.

This is a pretty one-dimensional look at it, ignoring for example if, say, Aston Villa (which is at 96%, apparently) achieves such a fair looking score by paying a single superstar rather than fairly distributing it across their players. But it's at least a start.

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