OK, here are your avg's.
2000 Avg per round
1.$1,939,464
sw.$865,625
2.$794,929
3.$518,417
4.$340,300
5.$197,407
6.$142,667
7.$97,111
8.$73,138
9.$62,920
10.$49,923
2001
1. $2,154,280
sw $964,464
2. $764,000
3. $427,339
4. $260,796
5. $177,914
6. $158,366
7. $157,462
8. $70,725
9. $76,581
10. $49,229
2002
1. $2,067,768
sw $849,091
2. $687,667
3. $461,081
4. $252,121
5. $184,636
6. $107,827
7. $105,542
8. $81,920
9. $69,700
10. $44,537
2003
1. $1,737,839
sw $975,357
2. $755,026
3. $415,981
4. $278,852
5. $185,540
6. $138,190
7. $96,450
8. $71,982
9. $49,345
10. $83,500
2004
1. $1,762,464
sw $921,136
2. $658,260
3. $487,516
4. $285,603
5. $177,655
6. $123,000
7. $105,692
8. $85,204
9. $84,190
10. $51,813
2005
1. $1,996,545
sw $862,794
2. $567,435
3. $402,630
4. $244,603
5. $165,667
6. $124,407
7. $107,200
8. $116,420
9. $71,481
10. $53,107
TPM, as you'll see there isn't a significant drop in avg bonus money paid out per round since 2000. Some rounds are slightly lower from year to year BUT there are also rounds where its slightly higher from year to year.
You always say TPM,that its a pipe dream. That only a few are invloved. Well, when you compare our population and ALL the kids who play baseball then only count those that are draft elgible your talking about a lot of players. Only about 1500 get selected every year. But if you'll look at Rounds 7-10 and I could include Rounds 11-18 as well. But for the study here. I'll just use through round 10. Rounds 7,8,9,10 all payed on avg. a Higher bonus than in the year 2000.
I only listed these figures to show that the draft amounts are NOT substantially smaller as implied(another poster in the thread).
When you compare the 2000 draft and the 2005 draft. On avg. for the top 10 rounds(because of this study) the total money paid out was:
2000 5,082,002
2005 5,177,789
in 05 was 1st year for comp C picks which is after the 2rd round. That avg. amount was 462,500 in 05 draft.
So TPM, as you requested, here are your results.