Playoff Winner?

[Crash Course]

According to Gammons, no team has won a World Series in the last 20 years with one player accounting for a sixth of his team's payroll.

Any of the current playoff contenders fit this bill?

[mainsr]

That has to be one of the stupidest stats I've heard.

[Crash Course]

Stupid maybe, but true, no?

[nyy26wc]

It's only true because of how high the Yankees payroll has been over the years. If you lower the Yankees payroll to a more normal level, you get plenty of times when the Yankees did it.

[Crash Course]

Isn't that like saying Neifi stinks because Bonds is in the same league? ;)

[KCBOOMER]

According to Gammons, no team has won a World Series in the last 20 years with one player accounting for a sixth of his team's payroll.

Any of the current playoff contenders fit this bill?

I would guess that Bonds and the Giants are at that point.

Also Irod and the Tigers and Sweeney and the Royals (oh, nevermind..."in contention" you said).

Anyplace we can see current contract info (i know of one site but it is a year out of date)?

[Crash Course]

I think USA Today, in the sports site, has contract $ info?

[mainsr]

This is why I left this site for those years. Takes up too much time.

HIGHEST PAID PAYROLL AS % OF PAYROLL
(must be as of opening day, given the glaring errors)
Team/Player/%
Tor/Delgado/39%
Mil/Jenkins/32%
Cin/Griffey/27%
Pit/Kendall/27%
Tex/Park/25%
TB/Martinez/25%
KC/Sweeney/23%
Ari/Johnson/23%
SF/Bonds/22%
White Sox/Ordonez/21%
Hou/Bagwell/21%
Cle/Lawton/21%
Min/Radke/20%
Oak/Dye/20%
Col/Walker/19%
LA/Green/18%
Mets/Vaughan/18%
Bos/Ramirez/18%
Cubs/Sosa/18%
Atl/Chipper/17%
Mon/Vidro/17%
Det/Young/17%
SD/Giles/16%
Fla/Lowell/15%
SL/Morris/15%
Phi/Thome/13%
Yanks/Rodriguez/12%
Bal/Lopez/12%
Ana/Guerrero&Colon/11%
Sea/Boone/10%

[Crash Course]

You're the greatest!
Probably just another reason why the Angels are going to win the whole thing this year. ;)

[mainsr]

HIGHEST PAID PAYROLL AS % OF PAYROLL

I guess I mean "highest paid PLAYER"

It looks like Gammons may be right on this. I checked a few teams, and it works out. But it could fall by the wayside this year. The only contenders that don't have a player accounting for a sixth of payroll are Anaheim, the Yankees, the Cardinals, the Marlins, and the Padres. (Chipper's at 17.0%; one-sixth is 16.7%).

Attention statheads: The correlation coefficient between payroll and highest paid player % is -0.51, meaning their is a weak negative relationship, i.e., the lower the team payroll, the more likely one guy will account for a large proportion of it, which makes intuitive sense.