Highest player payroll ever? Topic

Curious what it is? Both initial budget and total amount spent as well... I've never gone much above 98 or so before, but there's a deep FA class in Edmonds this year and my team is just entering the heart of it's championship window so I've cut all the fat and have a 127MM budget set to start off the season off. I doubt that's the highest but I don't know how much higher you could really get. So let's hear it (along with how well the team did for fun)
1/9/2010 4:03 AM
Wow, third world I looked at I found a team with $149.6MM payroll, Vancouver Lightning. I guess that's the new bar and I doubt I'm going to find one higher than that just randomly clicking through worlds again...
1/9/2010 4:10 AM
There is a team in one world I'm in that's currently using 130+ mil payroll. 134mil set budget with approx 3.3 mil space...
1/9/2010 4:10 AM
nvm, you beat the one I posted.. you posted that as I posted this one.. yep that's friggin high!
1/9/2010 4:11 AM
Holy crap!! I just looked at that Vancouver teams roster. He has a 37 yr. old getting 74M for 4yrs AFTER this season. I see that team becoming available in a season or two.

Player Pos B T H W Age ML
Years Pro
Years 40-
Man Options [Overall] Annual
Salary
Howard Jacquez (L) P L L 6'2 225 28 6 10 Yes 2 86 $14.5M

Nipsey Cohen (R) P R R 6'0 177 37 11 16 Yes 2 72 $12.0M

Hal Maroth (L) LF L R 5'11 176 35 11 14 Yes 2 82 $10.9M

Octavio Otanez (S) 1B S R 6'0 201 34 11 14 Yes 2 76 $9.0M

Geronimo Tabaka (S) 2B S R 6'1 175 31 10 12 Yes 2 84 $8.3M

Ernest Orosco (R) P R R 6'3 223 32 9 11 Yes 2 85 $8.3M

Donald Wan (R) P R R 6'0 231 34 11 15 Yes 2 79 $7.8M

Harvey Randall (R) CF R R 6'1 190 28 4 10 Yes 1 80 $6.5M

Ajax Frazier (R) P R R 5'8 191 35 11 15 Yes 2 78 $6.5M

Phil Joyner (L) 3B L R 5'9 180 29 5 11 Yes 1 75 $6.3M

Thom Thomas (R) P R R 5'11 214 33 6 12 Yes 1 69 $6.0M

Harold Relaford (L) P L L 6'3 206 38 13 17 Yes 0 68 $5.8M

Rod Dickey (R) P R R 6'2 201 30 8 11 Yes 2 74 $5.6M

Peter Pavlik (S) P S L 6'1 225 34 8 14 Yes 1 70 $5.0M

Dan Jenkins (L) DH L R 6'4 205 28 4 10 Yes 1 71 $5.0M

Juan Blanco (L) P L L 5'11 192 34 11 15 Yes 2 70 $4.8M

Rico Escobar (S) DH S R 6'3 215 34 10 14 Yes 2 66 $4.1M

Wilfredo Amaral (R) P R R 6'2 203 29 5 11 Yes 0 66 $2.9M

Robert Walbeck (R) C R R 6'1 198 30 6 11 Yes 2 55 $1.8M

Paul Masato (R) C R R 5'10 187 29 4 10 Yes 1 66 $1.2M

Rudy Strittmatter (R) SS R R 5'11 196 30 6 11 Yes 2 65 $665K

Ernie Barrett (L) 1B L L 6'4 196 29 2 10 Yes 0 67 $500K

Dennis Matsui (L) RF L R 6'2 204 25 2 7 Yes 2 74 $378K

Rico Rosario (R) P R R 6'0 204 25 0 7 Yes 0 64 $360K

Jacob Zhang (S) SS S R 6'1 175 25 0 4 Yes 2 69 $343K

1/10/2010 10:58 AM
I doubt the guy leaves...this is his fifth season and he's never not won. He'd have to be smart about it but he can keep that thing rolling.
1/10/2010 3:49 PM
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