The 30 highest-paid athletes of 2020 Posted January 01, 2021 | By Matt Whitener
While far from missing any meals, the top paydays in sports dropped in 2020, as the world of professional sports was not able to avoid the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Several sports saw significant losses in games played, and the earning ability of those athletes followed suit. Those athletes with established endorsement contracts faired much better than those dependent more on games played. Most heavily impacted was boxing and baseball, which failed to produce a single athlete on this year’s list. Meanwhile, basketball showed up strong, as did soccer, tennis, and the elite new earners in football.
Sports Illustrated‘s Top 100 list returns, aiming to answer that question.
As always, this is a wide-ranging exercise with a host of qualified candidates. There’s an abundance of information and analytical resources available with which to assess players. The rankings were again determined holistically by a combination of data and subjective evaluation, aiming to take players out of their team contexts and look at their skills and performance in a vacuum. These rankings are specifically for the upcoming season, and they do not take into account players’ long-term prospects or career arcs beyond 2020–21.
It’s best to look at these rankings as short-term projections, based on performance history and the impact of a player s age some growth can be expected from younger players, and a degree of potential decline from older veterans. This is not a representation of a player’s trade or market value, and it does not account for the impact of his salary relative to his producti
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