How much teams spent for college baseball (Jul 2024-Jun 2025)

Matt Brown
@MattBrownEP

in today's Extra Points, we obtained the FY25 operating budget for (nearly) every public school college baseball program

here's who spent a lot of money and still sucked, how much you need to compete for an at-large bid, who spent what and more:

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This covers the LSU title year



First, some notes on the methodology
Every D-1 and D-II school files an itemized athletic department budget report with the NCAA, called the MFRS report. This report breaks down how athletic departments generate and spend money, itemized by sport. It’s not a perfect data set, but it’s the closest thing we have in college sports to a unified data set.

We obtain these documents by filling hundreds of Open Records Requests. Because of those requests, and because of our data analysis, we’re able to compare spending across more than 170 schools.

The data you’ll see referenced here, and in all future newsletters in this series, comes from the Total Operational Expenses line item from that report. That number includes all the money a school spends on coaching salaries, administrative salaries, scholarships, travel, software, recruiting, and all sorts of other operational expenses. It does not include athlete revenue share payments. The numbers we are talking about here are not the “salary cap” for each team.



Matt Brown
@MattBrownEP

What I would love to understand better, and perhaps some of the quants in my readership can crunch better than I can, is what kind of relationship exists between particular kinds of spending and winning% (or RPI)

Probably need more data. Could be a good summer project.



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