mastana Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 IPL 2nd highest-paid league, edges out EPL NEW DELHI: If you think that cricketers' wages in the Indian Premier League don't measure up to what English Premier League footballers make, think again. According to the inaugural Annual Review of Global Sports Salaries to be published later this week by sportingintelligence.com, the second highest-paid league, based on first-team salaries on a pro-rata basis, is our very own IPL. Second only to the American National Basketball Association (NBA) league, whose annual average salary is 2.62 million pounds, the IPL's average salary, calculated over a year, is 2.5 million pounds. It must be remembered that the league is only played over a six-week period, making what cricketers earn for playing Twenty20 matches astounding. The third highest-paid is American Major League Baseball (MLB), at 1.82 million pounds while EPL comes in fourth, at 1.46 million pounds. In the 211-team list currently monitored by average first-team pay, Royal Challengers Bangalore comes in at 12th, at an average of 57,833 pounds a week, standing two places above Manchester United. According to a review of global sports salaries, and the IPL boasts of three teams within the top-30 bracket. The IPL has edged the English Premier League, who has two teams in the list - Manchester United and Chelsea. RCB is No. 12 (£57,833 per week), and others on the list are Kolkata Knight Riders (£56,445) and Chennai Super Kings (£55,526). At No. 1 is the MLB's New York Yankees (£89,897). All data is taken from seasons played or ending in 2009 except for European football clubs. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/iplarticleshow/5736736.cms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamy Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 damn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straight.drive Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Very Soon IPL will be the most paid. But IPL should deal in Rs and not in Dollars. They should auction the player for Rupees rather than the firang currency, Dollar. Hope Modi takes note of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViruRulez Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Very Soon IPL will be the most paid. But IPL should deal in Rs and not in Dollars. They should auction the player for Rupees rather than the firang currency, Dollar. Hope Modi takes note of this. why :hmmm: Dealing in dollars makes more sense in IPL's image in making it a global league .. IPL though a domestic league is turning more into a global league which is what L Modi wanted from the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tapioca Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 What is pro-rata basis ? They calculate the salary for 52 weeks based on what they get for six weeks ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboysfan Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 ^^yes,its just a dumb article really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hiten. Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 These guys are forgetting that EPL has survived for over 100 years now and remained competitive, whereas IPL is only 3 years old. No offence but even ICL survived for 3 years and paid ridiculous amount of money to their cricketers as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboysfan Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 cricket is obviously completely different from all other major team sports where club cricket will always take a backseat for international fixtures,it is what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranjha Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 These guys are forgetting that EPL has survived for over 100 years now and remained competitive' date=' whereas IPL is only 3 years old. No offence but even ICL survived for 3 years and paid ridiculous amount of money to their cricketers as well.[/quote'] I agree. Its just a new start. Who knows what will happen in next 10 or 20 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don_corleone840 Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 These guys are forgetting that EPL has survived for over 100 years now and remained competitive, whereas IPL is only 3 years old. No offence but even ICL survived for 3 years and paid ridiculous amount of money to their cricketers as well. their is vast difference between icl and ipl.icl went down because of the pressure of bcci.ipl is product of bcci and i dont think, any body can bully on bcci.their is no competition for ipl in india. so i think that ipl future is bright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straight.drive Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 why :hmmm: Dealing in dollars makes more sense in IPL's image in making it a global league .. IPL though a domestic league is turning more into a global league which is what L Modi wanted from the first place. A global league managed by Indian money and powered by Indian cricket and hosted by Indian infrastructure. EPL contracts are handed out in pounds :winky: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuub Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 hmmm http://baseball.about.com/od/newsrumors/a/09teamsalaries.htm I always thought baseballers got more than the NBA.. average salary is 3.24million a year!! The baseball season must be longer than I thought. Considering an average nobody is getting twice as much as IPLs highest paid player its probably a bit early to start bragging... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap_Brannigan Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 These guys are forgetting that EPL has survived for over 100 years now and remained competitive' date=' whereas IPL is only 3 years old. No offence but even ICL survived for 3 years and paid ridiculous amount of money to their cricketers as well.[/quote'] If they were talking about the legacy of sports league then they would mention it, but they are talking about salaries. Why does something like "number of years active" matter? Obviously the numbers are skewed mainly because IPL is a short league but then again, the league owners, franchise owners and advertisers all have only a short period of time too and they put in these enormous money into just 6 weeks of advertisement. It is truly remarkable for something like this to happen based on a single developing country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 interesting. one weird thing about IPL salaries is that there is a huge disparity between top dogs and the bottom dwellers. the range is like $1.5 m - $30k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap_Brannigan Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 interesting. one weird thing about IPL salaries is that there is a huge disparity between top dogs and the bottom dwellers. the range is like $1.5 m - $30k. Isnt that the case with all leagues? Someone like Brett farve gets way more than the 5th QB who will never be named in the top 100 to play the Superbowl..as was with the case of QB from my school who got into a team that went to the superbowl that year but he wasnt named in the squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hiten. Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 If they were talking about the legacy of sports league then they would mention it, but they are talking about salaries. Why does something like "number of years active" matter? Obviously the numbers are skewed mainly because IPL is a short league but then again, the league owners, franchise owners and advertisers all have only a short period of time too and they put in these enormous money into just 6 weeks of advertisement. It is truly remarkable for something like this to happen based on a single developing country. Longevity of the league is directly proportional to players' salary, because it ensures the sponsors that these are long term prospects. At the moment, every tom dick and harry is hopping on the IPL bandwagon because it is an unknown commodity. Once the dust settles down say 10-15 years later, we will definitely see sponsors' reluctance in paying their arm and a leg to IPL's demands (which was demonstrated during the auction that was to take place but was annulled because of ridiculous clauses). I had mentioned earlier ICL sustained BCCI/ICC's pressure and lasted for 3 years paying the same amount of mullahs to their players; so one would expect IPL to obviously last at least for some 6-9 years very easily (as they do not have to poach players without their respective boards' permission and its a league backed by BCCI/ICC). If you think Modi and company are going to have an easy ride towards the top of the table (amongst other leagues) then you're just being naive. You're just falling for the hype Modi and his men are creating. Read this article: http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/453945.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Isnt that the case with all leagues? Someone like Brett farve gets way more than the 5th QB who will never be named in the top 100 to play the Superbowl..as was with the case of QB from my school who got into a team that went to the superbowl that year but he wasnt named in the squad. I am talking about those who play, in the XI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner_Mania Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 These guys are forgetting that EPL has survived for over 100 years now and remained competitive' date= whereas IPL is only 3 years old. No offence but even ICL survived for 3 years and paid ridiculous amount of money to their cricketers as well. B_B didn't expect this from you?:shok: EPL is only 17 years old. It was the first division before that and the first divison was no where near as rich as the EPL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hiten. Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 B_B didn't expect this from you?:shok: EPL is only 17 years old. It was the first division before that and the first divison was no where near as rich as the EPL. Come on gunner, it was obviously a clean job which was named EPL but it was in the market with well established clubs in the ranks. Think of it like BCCI post-Modi sir, who knew how and when to promote the game. I should have actually mentioned the clubs' prosperity rather than the entire body's because at the end of the day its clubs' fortunes that define leagues' fortunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap_Brannigan Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Longevity of the league is directly proportional to players' salary, because it ensures the sponsors that these are long term prospects. At the moment, every tom dick and harry is hopping on the IPL bandwagon because it is an unknown commodity. Once the dust settles down say 10-15 years later, we will definitely see sponsors' reluctance in paying their arm and a leg to IPL's demands (which was demonstrated during the auction that was to take place but was annulled because of ridiculous clauses). I had mentioned earlier ICL sustained BCCI/ICC's pressure and lasted for 3 years paying the same amount of mullahs to their players; so one would expect IPL to obviously last at least for some 6-9 years very easily (as they do not have to poach players without their respective boards' permission and its a league backed by BCCI/ICC). If you think Modi and company are going to have an easy ride towards the top of the table (amongst other leagues) then you're just being naive. You're just falling for the hype Modi and his men are creating. Read this article: http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/453945.html Longevity is not directly proportional to the players salary at all as proved by IPL. What you are talking about is the sustainability of the league and its players salary. We can have a thread about it in 20 years. If ICL managed to have such a high average salary for its players then kudos to it. But it wasnt the case, not because it crashed and burned but because the salary werent high enough. Again, this thread is not about whether IPL will last,whether pakis will implode of jealousy or anything else. This is about average player salary per week in sports leagues. That is all. This has no bearing on anything else other than the fact that IPL pays a lot of money for just 6 weeks of cricket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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