Too much pay inequality in a squad may be detrimental

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad....nequality.html

http://ideas.repec.org/p/hbs/wpaper/12-075.html

Interesting article I thought.

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Originally Posted by Joker

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad....nequality.html

http://ideas.repec.org/p/hbs/wpaper/12-075.html

Interesting article I thought.

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Interesting stuff.

So if we offer van Persie less and Chamakh more we should see a marked improvement on the pitch? Let's do that then.

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The authors estimate that if a team changes from everyone being paid the same wage of €600k pa (the average in their sample) to a superstar earning €1.5m pa and everyone else in the team getting €510k, the chances of the team winning a game falls by 20 percentage points

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How do they 'estimate' this? Who is suggesting that RvP gets a shit load and all the rest get the same identical amount? And the idea of basic a football team's outlook on that of a normal office is just bollocks.

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Originally Posted by Coney

How do they 'estimate' this? Who is suggesting that RvP gets a shit load and all the rest get the same identical amount? And the idea of basic a football team's outlook on that of a normal office is just bollocks.

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Sounds like their data is based on the pundits' player ratings in the Sun. The data is unimpeachable.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Interesting stuff.

So if we offer van Persie less and Chamakh more we should see a marked improvement on the pitch? Let's do that then.

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tbf to joker here, in his eyes if we dont play RVP we will see a marked improvement on the pitch

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Originally Posted by Coney

How do they 'estimate' this? Who is suggesting that RvP gets a shit load and all the rest get the same identical amount? And the idea of basic a football team's outlook on that of a normal office is just bollocks.

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Sounds silly to me tbh.