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I was looking through the TL for SGs and I found a large variation in salaries - from 20000 to 35000 - for players with very similar skillsets. Is there a random factor in salaries or is this wide range down to sublevels in the skills alone?

could be sublevels, or could be that these players have been trained this season and might have started out quite differently before looking similar now.

Hmm...unlikely. These were age 25 and over SGs and the season is just, what, 3-4 weeks in?

Is it certain that there's no random factor in salary calculation? Can't think of any other reason for that much variance..

If you can give me an example of two players that you saw, I can try to explain it to you.

Don't link the lpayer, just copy their skillsets.

@ any GM: If there's any problem in copying anonymous skillsets, please let me know.

Here are a few that I can't make sense of:

Player A
Salary 30 981
Jump Shot: sensational Jump Range: prolific
Outside Def.: sensational Handling: sensational
Driving: tremendous Passing: prolific
Inside Shot: respectable Inside Def.: average
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: average
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: awful

Player B
Salary 28 296
Jump Shot: sensational Jump Range: prolific
Outside Def.: prolific Handling: tremendous
Driving: prolific Passing: prominent
Inside Shot: respectable Inside Def.: inept
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: average

Player C
Salary 30 572
Jump Shot: prolific Jump Range: prolific
Outside Def.: prolific Handling: strong
Driving: strong Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: inept Inside Def.: mediocre
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: respectable

Player D
Salary 22596
Jump Shot: sensational Jump Range: prominent
Outside Def.: prolific Handling: respectable
Driving: strong Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: inept Inside Def.: mediocre
Rebounding: mediocre Shot Blocking: mediocre
Stamina: inept Free Throw: prominent

Player E
Salary 19 542
Jump Shot: prolific Jump Range: prominent
Outside Def.: prolific Handling: proficient
Driving: strong Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: average Inside Def.: mediocre
Rebounding: mediocre Shot Blocking: mediocre
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: inept


Player C is only 1 better at JR than E, but is otherwise quite similar Yet his salary is more than 50% more. Player A seems at least as much better than Player C as C is better than E, yet their salaries are almost the same. And so on. Sublevels don't seem a satisfactory explanation to me.

PS. All ages are 25 and up.

Last edited by Hadron at 2/8/2011 12:47:39 PM

well, this goes to show that JR is very expensive for SGs. Also, sublevels probably play some role. Player C might be 1.8 levels of JR and 0.8 levels of OD better than player E, which would explain a lot of the discrepancy. Similarly, player A is perhaps only 0.2 levels better in JS and OD, and perhaps even lower on JR. Also, Passing and Handling have no influence on SG salary whatsoever, while they do kick in for PGs.

Lastly, note that Salary rises exponentially with A-skills.

I probably won't check all of them now but:

I had a look at player A:

Without sublevels his salary should be around 40600$.
If I assume very low sublevels on e.g. JS, PD, PA and Reb his salary comes down to around 30000$. Of course that's just a guess but if I had to bet, that'd be my choice.

Player C - E:

Without sublevels the salaries are:
C: 27437$ (your number: 30572$)
E: 21457$ (your number: 19542$)

Starting from player E:
- 2 levels Rebounding ~ 2500$
- 1 level Jump Range: ~ 3000$
That's already a significant difference from just 3 Ups.

Assuming that player C's Outside Defense or Jump Range has a high sublevel, only that one difference pushes his salary over 30'000.

Does this make sense?

Last edited by El Duderino at 2/8/2011 11:08:13 AM

Yeah, you guys are probably right that its just the sublevels. I forgot about the effect of rebounding on salary. Isn't it a little odd that rebounding bumps up salary by 2500 but passing does not raise salary at all? I forgot about that non-intuitive case with the guards in BB.

I copy pasted the salaries to the new salary calculator and player A must have really low sublevels to be stuck at that salary and player C must have really high ones on all the valued skills. I thought something like that would be unlikely which is why I asked whether there was some random factor to the salary calculation. But its certainly possible so thanks for clarifying that.