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NFL Payrolls Per Win 2008-2012 [Visualization]

Posted by Ryan Sleeper
/ January 1, 2013

The NFL payrolls per win, salaries per win, cost per win – however you think about it – is a simple calculation to determine how efficient each of the 32 NFL GM’s are at getting the best bang for their buck. This is the last season that these numbers will be particularly interesting because next year, all teams will be required to spend at least 90% of the salary cap (which will prevent outliers like the Jacksonville Jaguars and Kansas City Chiefs from spending much less than the NFL average).

NFL salaries and cap space are not always straightforward calculations as teams can manipulate these, and in some cases, are paying for former GMs, etc. I have trusted USA Today, the NFL, and salary cap space vs. salary calculations to provide the most reasonable NFL cost per win numbers as possible.

This year, we have made the NFL payrolls per win data fully interactive. To use (1) Select a season from 2008-2012 at the top and (2) Click a team name once to see five year trends and their performance to NFL benchmarks.
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Chiefs Block Twitter Follower: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Posted by Ryan Sleeper
/ September 11, 2012

Last night, the Kansas City Chiefs blocked a Twitter follower for calling them out on their spending habits in recent years. As reported earlier today by Bob Fescoe of 610 Sports Radio in Kansas City, the Chiefs Twitter policy is to block no one unless their behavior gets vulgar. I looked up the tweet that caused the stir from @teedubya, and I have to admit, I wasn’t exactly comfortable embedding it on my own site.

That being said, the problem is not that the Chiefs blocked Travis Wright, who is a global Social Media Manager with over 120,000 Twitter followers (oops….), it’s how they responded with the following private direct message....
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2012 NFL Salaries by Team

Posted by Ryan Sleeper
/ September 5, 2012

We have compiled the 2012 NFL salaries by team by taking the 2012 NFL salary cap of $120.6 Million minus the salary cap space of each NFL team. Our source for this data is Team-by-team cap space as of September 3 by Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk.

We have also added each team’s year over year change from the 2011 NFL Payrolls by Team. This is the last year that salary data will be particularly interesting to keep an eye on because a salary floor will be introduced next season. This will require all teams to spend very close to the same amount each season.
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2012 MLB Payrolls by Team

Posted by Ryan Sleeper
/ April 11, 2012

The fact that Major League Baseball is still the only major professional sports league in the United States without a salary cap in place makes the 2012 MLB payrolls an important thing to keep in mind as the season progresses. While not as difficult to track down as the NFL payrolls by team, we wanted to provide the easiest to find and most straightforward chart available for the 2012 MLB salaries by team along with some year over year insights. We will also use these numbers in our second annual MLB Cost Per Win Efficiency Standings.

My source for all of these numbers is USA Today, who has tracked MLB salaries by team since 1988....
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2011 NFL Cost Per Win Efficiency Standings

Posted by Ryan Sleeper
/ January 2, 2012

The 2011 NFL cost per win efficiency standings were created by dividing each team’s 2011 total salary by their number of regular season wins during 2011. While the salary cap causes the NFL cost per win efficiency standings to be more balanced than our MLB cost per win analysis, which was our top story last year, the range in payrolls and wins does lead to some interesting results. Currently, NFL payrolls range from $92,768,120 (Jacksonville Jaguars) to $123,553,646 (Minnesota Vikings). How efficient each team is with their payrolls will be an important thing to keep an eye on because starting in the 2013 season, all teams will be spending within 10% of the same amount.

Take a look at the infographic below (click to view full size) and the following full league standings to see where your team stands. This is a pretty good indicator of how well your team’s front office is doing and how competitive your team will be as we near the new rules for 2013....
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