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    [OC] Champions League – Performance vs Annual Salary


    Based on the available data, mostly found through capology + transfermarkt.

    Sporting is the top performer based on their annual pay to their squad.
    Other overperforming teams;

    Olympiacos
    Club Brugge
    Qarabag FK
    Bodo/Glimt

    Under performing;

    Real Madrid
    Man City
    PSG
    AT Madrid

    Posted by molym

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    2. abhinav_4 on

      This should be done against points instead of league positions. For the wages part, please use Deloitte Football report released couple of weeks back. Capalogy wage data is off by as atleast 50-100% for every club.

    3. fivedogit on

      Data is a little messed up bc some big teams rest their best players more in the early stages. Graphic would be more honest to use starting XI wage bill total for all league phase games as the “salary” axis.

    5. spwilson49 on

      I don’t get how a team that came in second with the second highest total salary is even slightly under performing. I feel like that is almost the definition of as expected. Unless your key of yellow for as expected is wrong and the orange that Bayern show is the color of 0.

    6. SomeSchmidt on

      Almost like total salary correlates with league position which correlates with expected performance against other teams. Who would have guessed?

    8. UnCommonSense99 on

      I would have liked to see a regression line through these points.

      Eyeballing it I reckon the regression line goes between Newcastle and Juventus, with Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal all overperforming by ~ £30 Million a year

    10. LegendaryTJC on

      Poor submission. Data is ugly. Reported. This feels like a troll post. The dotted line goes the opposite way to correlation.

    12. MaestruDari on

      I see that people in the comments are throwing bad words in your graph.

      Yes, I can see that there are quite some data visualization mistakes/improvements there, but I need to congratulate you on your post! It is quite interesting and sparked quite some discussions 🙂 There is room for improvement for sure, I like the idea.

      If people just throw bad words at it, why don’t they do it and post it here? Because you actually worked (if it is your graph) by researching, creating and posting it here.

      Very interesting graph, thank you 🙂

      Potential improvements: equal scale + max value scale label to both minimum and maximum at the gradient legend. Label the dotted line in order to know what it means. League position should have minimum value to 1 and not 0. Real Madrid text should be wrapped if it does overflow in the gradient.

    14. Defiant-Traffic5801 on

      Not a bad idea, but poor execution:
      – colours are wrong, eg Arsenal coming up first and with the 5th wage bill should appear as outperforming
      – A simple position versus wage bill differential might be a good primary indicator
      – else, points versus wage bill as a graph

      NB the real levels of achievement are :
      1. Coming up in the top 8, si quakifyes for the last 16
      2. Qualifying to playoffs
      3. Not Qualifying at all

      Using as sample all C1 clubs would have helped

    15. kingyxxn on

      Dotted line should be the other way. You graph the “expected” outcome, which would be highest salary team in first position, and then determine variance from that line. Anyone below that line would be an “underperformer”, anyone over that line would be an “overperformer”. To have the line inverted, you can’t not tell easily by looking at the graph what you are solving for

    17. trophyisabyproduct on

      Should the trend line be left bottom to right top? It seems to align with the data better and it does seem that it is reasonable to assume higher wage leads to better position…..

    18. Splinterfight on

      Wow that range of salaries in mind boggling! Must make it hard to have competitive fixtures