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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3406803, member: 9853"] I don't take much notice of these literal numbers - they don't know - but at lot of these discrepancies stem from the payments being tiered over the contract period. If they report Blake Mozer has a 30 million dollar contract over 3 years, that might be 20 dollars year one, 40 dollars year two, and 30 million year three (rounded to the nearest million). Older players might have these tiers stepped down, while younger stepped up. So a journalist might say Blake is on a 20 dollar salary or a 10 million, neither being right, but the source might be. Zerotackle's contracts do the latter and divides the contract evenly, so if that's your source, you're going to get into arguments with someone whose source expresses it in the tiers. Another thing to watch are round numbers (easy to express and recall), and rounding terms like "upwards of," "around," "at least," "approaching" etc. Someone will hear Payne is on a million, because that's an easy number, while the actual amount might have a decimal point. These sports journalists aren't forensic accountants. They're gossip columnists and talking heads. I've never met a journalist - outside of tech reviewers - who studied maths past junior. [/QUOTE]

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