: Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:14 pm  

Dico wrote:

I'd have thought so but then again we only spend the same cap as everyone else so we cant be paying them as much as some would believe

Of course. The club may even be paying him rather less than people believe.

Thats before income players receive from...unrelated third parties, of course (hence my question to the Saints guy re Scully, and my earlier post. And see also e.g Iestyn Harris and "Image Rights").

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:44 pm  

~ No1 Saints Fan ~ wrote:

I reckon Matt King is the highest paid and most overpaid player in SL. I bet some of Warrington's players eg. Monaghan, Morley, Gleeson etc. are up there.

Spot on, common knowledge that King is on £3.25M per game.

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:46 pm  

GB wrote:

Spot on, common knowledge that King is on £3.25M per game.

Wrong, its actually £3.25 gazillion.

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:53 pm  

If people were to be believed, Hutch Maiva was the highest earner in the history of Hull FC

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:20 pm  

The Key wrote:

If people were to be believed, Hutch Maiva was the highest earner in the history of Hull FC

I think you're confusing earnings with cholesterol.

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:59 pm  

Banger wrote:

I think you're confusing earnings with cholesterol.

I believe Sam Moa has far more cholesterol................



















either that or he is a smaller fatter barsteward

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:11 pm  

Whether this is helpful or not, the average SL salary is 64k a year. The bottom earners are on a measly 18-20k a year, so assuming a normal distribution throughout the league, the top earners would be on around 100k apiece.

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:23 pm  

£100k? And the rest.

I would say that some first team players are on less than £18k aswell.

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:23 pm  

TMF wrote:

Whether this is helpful or not, the average SL salary is 64k a year. The bottom earners are on a measly 18-20k a year, so assuming a normal distribution throughout the league, the top earners would be on around 100k apiece.

The "top earners" are grossing far more than that though - through the clubs and from "external" earnings". And I'm not at all sure that player earnings will follow a Normal Distribution - not least because of the small population size at each club and the disproportionate benefit a club sees from employing a "marquee" player?

I do think people might be surprised at how modest the packages of some of the "middle-rankers"are though.

Would I be right in thinking your £18k-£20k applies to players outside the "25"?

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:22 pm  

RB wrote:

£100k? And the rest.

I would say that some first team players are on less than £18k aswell.

Then our normal distribution has a possibly a kurtosis. And the range is greater than anticipated.