The Economics of Football Salaries

Matt McLellan

We are looking to find out why professional football players get paid the way they do. We hope to discover if it is purely based off of performance in games, or if there is more to it. We then want to quantify the aspects that go into pay and come up with an algorithm to find if players are being under paid, hence adding value to the team, over paid, costing more than they bring in or paid perfectly.