OT: Calling all MGOstatletes. I need help finding an NFL salary standard distribution (table)

Submitted by MgoBlueprint on

Does anyone know where to find a NFL salary standard distribution or table? I'm working on a research project to find out what BCS programs would look like under the NFL's CBA. I have most of the necessary data, including the median salary. However, I'd like to have the standard deviation and/or table to get a sense how how much a 5 star, transfer, or grad transfer could command on the open market.

Additional notes (constructive feedback is always useful):

This is a what if, not a should be

Bullet points: including some of the primary factors.

 

- Salary caps by conference

- using conference revenue to establish salary caps

  - Total conference revenue: 47% (nfl min.) for players, 53% (max) for Ath. Dept.

        - cap floor: 89% min for a year. Roll over

        - 95% conference cap avg for 10 year period

        - 15.74% of total conference revenue for player benefits. 

             -long-term medical coverage, scholarships, worker's comp, unemployment etc.

- Using two teams for each P5 and G5 conference plus ND

     - revenue and expense reports/ breakdown

         --apparel contracts (cash and apparel from company are separate categories)

         -- ticket sales, conferenece payouts, media, licensing/ branding/royalties, donations etc

         -- Staff packages (HC, assistants, supports staff), equip/apparel, travel, promo etc.

WestQuad

April 15th, 2017 at 11:46 AM ^

I was able to cut an paste those into excel without any manipulation.    I've tried to figure out web scraping tools before to no avail (in the 20 minutes I spent), but I'm curious why you would need to scrape that info if it is all laid out in table format already.  

Do you have a good webscraper or webscraper tutorial that you recommend?

mikegros

April 15th, 2017 at 12:43 PM ^

I've gotten used to scraping the data automatically so my brain automatically went to that method of acquiring the data. You're absolutely right though that copy/paste from tables is way quicker and more sensible in this case.

 

Also because you asked, I use the rvest package in R or beautifulsoup in python. I dont have a particular good tutorial offhand, but if I look and remember one I'll post it back here.