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Contract Status?
Does anyone have any idea where I could find an official list of the contract statuses of current NPB players? Thanks for your help.
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Re: Contract Status?
[ Author: mondejoe | Posted: Jan 11, 2007 8:44 AM
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Nah, this site is the best. Honestly. You won't find salary and fielding stats anywhere else.
I don't think NPB players have contracts, at least not in the form that we're used to. Softbank management actually had the opportunity to decrease Matsunaka's salary even though he supposedly signed a seven-year contract last season worth around $5 million a year. Saitoh didn't get a raise even though he had a career year. He's still going to make $2.5 million this season. Sure he signed a three-year contract prior to last season, but if he had a bad year I'm sure management would have renegotiated that deal in the off season.
I don't think NPB players have contracts, at least not in the form that we're used to. Softbank management actually had the opportunity to decrease Matsunaka's salary even though he supposedly signed a seven-year contract last season worth around $5 million a year. Saitoh didn't get a raise even though he had a career year. He's still going to make $2.5 million this season. Sure he signed a three-year contract prior to last season, but if he had a bad year I'm sure management would have renegotiated that deal in the off season.
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[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Jan 11, 2007 9:23 AM
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Note that the 2006 salary information is here on the Sponichi site if it helps.
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[ Author: Deanna | Posted: Jan 11, 2007 9:55 AM
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Nikkan Sports has the 2007 salary amounts for players who have agreed and signed on their contracts for this coming year, but nothing about contract status otherwise.
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[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Jan 11, 2007 9:16 AM
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I've entered some salary information for 2007 into the database that runs the players section of this site. However, I don't think that I even have half the players yet.
I guess it's about time to enable the viewing of 2007 by default in the teams and players sections. I'll do that later today. And I'll also add salary information to the team pages to make it easier to gather. How does that sound?
General availability of this data (on paper) usually becomes available in 5 to 6 more weeks. I'll get on to it after I finish entering the 2006 fielding data (which I hope to have done by this coming weekend).
As for what's inside the contracts, or what bonus incentives players have, that detailed information is very hard to come by. I don't have access to that level of information. Perhaps Pro Yakyu will listen to Negoro-Commissioner and one day make this more transparent. But I'm afraid that it won't be any time soon.
I guess it's about time to enable the viewing of 2007 by default in the teams and players sections. I'll do that later today. And I'll also add salary information to the team pages to make it easier to gather. How does that sound?
General availability of this data (on paper) usually becomes available in 5 to 6 more weeks. I'll get on to it after I finish entering the 2006 fielding data (which I hope to have done by this coming weekend).
As for what's inside the contracts, or what bonus incentives players have, that detailed information is very hard to come by. I don't have access to that level of information. Perhaps Pro Yakyu will listen to Negoro-Commissioner and one day make this more transparent. But I'm afraid that it won't be any time soon.
Re: Contract Status?
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Jan 13, 2007 10:47 PM
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Bug alert!
I had fulfilled my promise to display salaries a couple of days ago, but just noticed a huge bug in the displaying of the data. A salary of 1,234-man yen (for example) was being displayed as 1,1234-man yen. The thousands digit was being displayed twice.
I've fixed the bug, so salary information should now be correctly displayed. (Whether or not it was entered correctly is another matter.) All salaries between 1,000-man and 9,999-man were effected by this bug. Salaries above and below that range appear to be correct.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
I had fulfilled my promise to display salaries a couple of days ago, but just noticed a huge bug in the displaying of the data. A salary of 1,234-man yen (for example) was being displayed as 1,1234-man yen. The thousands digit was being displayed twice.
I've fixed the bug, so salary information should now be correctly displayed. (Whether or not it was entered correctly is another matter.) All salaries between 1,000-man and 9,999-man were effected by this bug. Salaries above and below that range appear to be correct.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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