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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Poll: Equivalent Players

By Tangotiger, 11:37 AM

Suppose all players are signed for one year.  And, all players are paid only at the end of the season.  A pure pay-for-performance setup.  The league handles all payments.

There are seven teams (Team A through Team G) that have as players the following 5 players (who have played 160, 140, 120, 100, 80 games). 

Games    A....    B....    C....    D....    E....    F....    G....
160     120      120      120      120      120      120      120 
140     105      107      109      110      113      116      120 
120     090      094      098      100      106      112      120 
100     075      081      086      090      099      108      120 
080     060      068      075      080      092      104      120

The numbers represent the runs created by each player.  So, Team A has the 100 game player creating 75 runs, but Team G has their 100 game player creating 120 runs.

The average player generates 0.5 runs per game.

The salary of the above 160 game (120 Runs Created) players has already been set at 20MM$.

For which Team would you have the league pay exactly 20MM$ for each of the five players?  That is, for which Team do you find that the five players listed are equivalent to each other, in terms of their past performance?

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