question: why in sports is the amount of money an athelete makes such a headline ?
comment: cuz the average person doesn’t make that much and the fact that a person can make such a high amount of money by just playing a sport is still, to this day, a pretty outstanding feat.
passages: The adoption of advanced metrics by college and professional football organizations has been a gradual evolution. While the sabermetrics revolution in baseball inspired a bestselling book, "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis, which also became a critically acclaimed film, the advanced metrics movement in football has had no such prominence.
   Beginning in the 1990s, statistician Dean Oliver and ESPN sports writer John Hollinger first popularized the use of advanced metrics in basketball. Oliver's book "Basketball On Paper" and Hollinger's "Pro Basketball Forecast" are credited with the advancement of basketball's version of sabermetrics, APBRmetrics. Major sports media proponents, such as Hollinger, have helped basketball evolve more quickly from rudimentary statistics to advanced metrics than some other major American sports.
   BULLET::::- During his contract years, Michael Schumacher had significantly higher annual earnings than the athletes on this list with larger total contracts. On top of his $31 million per year paid by the Ferrari team, which alone ranked as the highest annual earnings at the time, he also earned a significant amount more per year from race winnings.
   The most major of industries related to sports are the professional leagues that most of the other industries in the sporting world revolve around. The major American sports leagues are the first 5 in the list following and include football, basketball, hockey, baseball and soccer. Most players in these leagues make money from the team they're on as well as sponsors but are among some of the top earners in the United States. 
  
  Section::::Professional sports.:Examples.
  
  BULLET::::- NFL - Net worth $74.8 billion
  
  BULLET::::- NBA- Net worth $49.5 billion
  
  BULLET::::- NHL- Net worth $18.4 billion
   The popularity of spectator sport as a recreation for non-participants has led to sport becoming a major business in its own right, and this has incentivised a high paying professional sport culture, where high performing participants are rewarded with pay far in excess of average wages, which can run into millions of dollars.
   Section::::Early history.
  
  Advanced metrics were first posited in the mid-1900s, and Earnshaw Cook was one its earliest practitioners. Cook's research for his 1964 work, "Percentage Baseball" was the first publication siting advanced metrics to garner national media attention. Despite the competitive advantage offered by advanced metrics, the practice was unanimously dismissed by major sports organizations for most of the twentieth century.
   "Bicho" is a money prize paid by the club to an athlete according to the team's performance, such as winning a championship, winning or drawing a match, qualifying to other championship phases, among others. The "bicho" may be established in the contract, but this is not usual.
   Section::::Concerts.
   Section::::Derivation.
   "I hit a ceiling with E.C., period. That was it. I wasn't making money. The amount of money I made with them, I could have made myself. But then again, in doing it myself, how many more pieces would I have sold? I'd be kind of doing the same thing, just not splitting the money so many different ways. But it was about expansion, about growth. It's what artists do." 
   BULLET::::- Under Armour - Net worth $3.5 billion
  
  BULLET::::- Reebok - Net worth $1.2 billion
  
  BULLET::::- Adidas - Net worth $6.9 billion
  
  BULLET::::- Nike - Net worth $15.9 billion
  
  BULLET::::- Oakley
  
  BULLET::::- K-Swiss
  
  Section::::Sports gambling.
   Section::::Advanced metrics in basketball.
  
  North Carolina, under coach Frank McGuire, was the first known basketball organization to utilize advanced possession metrics to gain a competitive advantage. Since then, advanced metrics enthusiasts in basketball have borrowed aspects of Bill James' philosophy in order to create weighted statistics that measure each player and each team's on-court efficiency. Most basketball-specific advanced metrics feature a per-minute measurement to ensure that a player's incremental team contributions are measured irrespective of usage volume.
   BULLET::::- Increased involvement of transnational companies (even those not connected to the sports industry) leads to a new trend of “naming” in which sponsor’s name or label is associated with stadium, sports arena, team or sports contest.
  
  BULLET::::- Involvement of those companies leads to the professionalization of sports that allows formerly amateur athletes to earn money. In the same time, at the highest level, we can observe enormous growth of income among athletes.
   Advanced metrics
  
  Advanced Metrics is the term for the empirical analysis of sports, particularly statistics that measure in-game productivity and efficiency. Advanced metrics were first employed in baseball by Bill James, a pioneer in the field who is considered the father and public face of the practice.
  
  Section::::General principles.
  
  The basic principles of advanced metrics were outlined in "The Sabermetric Manifesto" by David Grabiner (1994). In the piece, Grabiner explains that Bill James defined sabermetrics, the first advanced metric, as the search for objective knowledge about sports.
   When a player accumulates over £2 million, all of his or her money and shares are taken away and replaced with a fresh £10,000. This prevents people from controlling the market when they acquire large amounts of cash. As compensation they are given status symbols to replace the number of millions they had.
  
  BULLET::::- £1 million: fat wad of cash
  
  BULLET::::- £5 million: sexy car
  
  BULLET::::- £10 million: luxury yacht
  
  BULLET::::- £25 million: very big house in the country
  
  BULLET::::- £50 million: executive jet
  
  BULLET::::- £100 million: exotic island
  
  BULLET::::- £500 million: crown of a minor nation state
   Due to the large number of away games and associated travel days in American sports, per diem rates are often major components in collective bargaining agreements between leagues and their players' unions. As of 2016, the NBA has the highest per-diem for players at $115 per day, followed by the NHL whose per-diem began at a base of $100/day in 2012-13 and is adjusted each year based on changes in the US Consumer Price Index. Minor pro and collegiate athletes also receive meal money for overnight trips, usually paid as a rate set by the league or university they are affiliated with. As athlete salaries have risen, per diems have occasionally become a contentious issue when negotiating CBAs: for instance, in 2016 Major League Baseball slashed allowances from $100/day to $35/day, citing high salaries and teams now providing pre- and post-game food to players on the road as their rationale.
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   2) Sport has become a sector of accumulation of wealth, money, and therefore also of capital. It attracts considerable amounts of money; I would even say today it is the most spectacular showcase of the globalized society of commodities. Sport has become a key commodity of this society.
   Records of performance are often kept, and for popular sports, this information may be widely announced or reported in sport news. Sport is also a major source of entertainment for non-participants, with spectator sport drawing large crowds to sport venues, and reaching wider audiences through broadcasting. Sport betting is in some cases severely regulated, and in some cases is central to the sport.
  
  According to A.T. Kearney, a consultancy, the global sporting industry is worth up to $620 billion as of 2013. The world's most accessible and practised sport is running, while association football is its most popular spectator sport.
   Since the end of the world it was said that twentieth century the globalization of sports rapidly accelerated by bringing television and corporate sponsorship. It led to the commercialization of sport and gave birth to the sport industry. Therefore, in the context of globalization, sport in the contemporary world can be characterised by the following tendencies:
  
  BULLET::::- Increased involvement of global telecommunication companies allows international sport organizations and federations such as the International Olympic Committee or International Federation of Association Football to generate enormous revenues by selling television rights.
   Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid athletes
  
  This is a list of the highest-paid athletes in the world as ranked by "Forbes" magazine.
  
  Section::::All time list.
  
  The following list shows the highest-paid athletes of all time, as of 2017:
  
  The list is only about modern athletes. For example Gaius Appuleius Diocles a Lusitania Chariot racer is said to have earned 35,863,120 sesterces, by some estimation over $15 billion in today's dollars. This means he would be the best paid athlete of all time.
  
  Section::::2019 list.
  
  The 2019 list:
  
  Section::::2018 list.
  
  The 2018 list:
  
  Section::::2017 list.
  
  The 2017 list:
  
  Section::::2016 list.
   The competition element of sport, along with the aesthetic appeal of some sports, result in the popularity of people attending to watch sport being played. This has led to the specific phenomenon of spectator sport.
  
  Both amateur and professional sports attract spectators, both in person at the sport venue, and through broadcast media including radio, television and internet broadcast. Both attendance in person and viewing remotely can incur a sometimes substantial charge, such as an entrance ticket, or pay-per-view television broadcast.
   BULLET::::2. The Shot Heard 'Round the World – Bobby Thomson's home run (1951)
  
  BULLET::::3. Super Bowl III – New York Jets defeat Baltimore Colts (1969)
  
  BULLET::::4. Miracle on Ice – U.S.A defeats U.S.S.R. (1980)
  
  BULLET::::5. "Thrilla in Manila" – Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier (1975)
  
  BULLET::::6. "Ice Bowl" – Green Bay vs. Dallas (1967)
  
  BULLET::::7. Game 6 of the 1975 World Series – Carlton Fisk's home run (1975)
  
  BULLET::::8. Tiger Woods wins the Masters (1997)
  
  BULLET::::9. Willis Reed and Knicks beat Lakers in Game 7 (1970)
  
  BULLET::::10. Borg-McEnroe Wimbledon thriller (1980)
  
  Section::::Special episodes.:"SportsCentury: Greatest Coaches of the 20th Century".
   "There's a far shorter peak earnings period than in any other profession". "Black Enterprise" reported in 2003 that "the average career span for professional basketball, football, and baseball is a mere 4.5 years, 3.2 years, and under five years, respectively." A 2007 study found that, excluding pitchers, rookie Major League Baseball players' careers last for 5.6 years on average.
  
  Section::::Managers and investments.
   In professional sports leagues, "revenue sharing" commonly refers to the distribution of proceeds generated by ticket sales to a given event; the amount of money distributed to a visiting team can significantly impact a team's total revenue, which in turn affects the team's ability to attract (and pay for) talent and resources. In 1981, for example, the Scottish Premier League changed its policy from splitting a match's receipts evenly between its two competing football teams over to a system in which the hosting team could keep all of the proceeds from matches hosted at its facilities. This move is generally believed to have negatively affected the league's parity and enhanced the dominance of Celtic F.C. and Rangers F.C. In contrast, the National Football League distributes television revenue to all teams equally, regardless of team performance or number of viewers.
  