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***luke*** · 01-21-2025, 10:25 PM

Sorry @Rangerjase but I got to a Billion first.

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Crazy to think about. A lot of hard work, the Dev work I’ve done in the last 10 seasons helped immensely to hit that goal. The top 75 I did in early 2024 helped me propel and get me within arms reach of it. And having 7 years on the site helps.Giving away 100 mil in early 2024 also doesnt help either. However, a proud accomplishment nevertheless

Lifetime I’ve earned 2.2 billion and spent 1.25 billion. Other than the super old heads. I dare anyone to spend that much over 7 years.

I went back to the old forums to grab all the transactions I could find with myself. So now some fun stats

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We can see how I earned this much money right here

job pay: $956,365,001.00
media: $912,641,004.00
contract: $166,500,000.00
casino: $52,600,000.00
fantasy: $34,000,000.00
chirper: $16,150,000.00
medal winnings: $5,000,000.00
misc: $4,952,458.00

The Misc is a little misleading, since Misc could be money gained or money lost. But + 5 mil on that. Medal winnings only being 5 million is hilarious to me as well. Czechia still the bestia though. 34 mil from fantasy lines up. I didnt do fantasy for all my seasons. But 34 mil is still good. Casino I’m up 52 mil so take that @Grum

166 mil lifetime on contract as well is pretty good. Mostly taking HTD for most of my 6 mil career, probably a bit lower than users who spent as much time on the site and had players like mine. But its pretty cool to see.

Then after that its my 2 big pillars. Media and Job pay. 912 million from media is pretty cool to see. Media in the SHL is my love and I love making media. It is basically how I paid for everything in my career so far, and Job pay is all free money. And job pay being 956 mil, I almost earned a billion dollars just from job pay. Granted, a ton of it is through Dev payments. Which I will get to later

transfer: -$5,000,000.00
redistribution: -$18,000,000.00
cards: -$201,600,000.00
personal payment: -$246,010,000.00
training: -$327,000,000.00
coaching: -$346,200,000.00

Transfer should be Personal Payments as well. But yeah, about 250 million spent on personal payments. I gave away 100 mil, and then the other 150 mil I spent either on sigs, giveaways, or other things

Redistribution only being 18 mil makes sense. Back in the day when you buy coaching you had to redistribute the shit TPE out of strength or hitting.

Cards reaching 200 mil, makes me thing I could have hit a billion sooner if I didnt buy any cards. However cards have been a great improvement on the site, and another way we can have the ultra wealthy knock down some of that money.

Training and Coaching being pretty much the same makes sense as well. Spending 670 mil + over 7 years, its about 100 million a full IRL year is crazy to think about. However I think I made some pretty good players to make up for it.

How much money I earned net over the years

2018: $101,198,000.00
2019: $78,662,503.00
2020: $124,650,000.00
2021: $124,876,979.00
2022: $64,055,981.00
2023: $170,860,000.00
2024: $302,845,000.00
2025: $37,250,000.00

First thing I can think of is that money inflation is real. 2018 I spent 6 months ish in the SHL, and earned 100 mil is also crazy for me. Even crazier to think about is that King made more money than me. I can imagine if he stuck with the SHL for the same amount of time, what he would be at. 2019 and 2022 I slacked, however 2020 and 2021 was so much fun in earning money during covid with the SHN.

Category Earned per year

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2024 was the biggest year for me with the top 75 and other media. Earning 235 mil that year. However I’ve been pretty solid every other year. 2025 I can now tell that money inflation is real haha. I did not write that much media to earn 40 mil so far. First 3 years earning 100+ mil, then SHN and then getting a real job IRL slowed down my media output by money. However still a crazy amount

The most I’ve earned in media was 31 mil in 2024 for some of the Top 75. A lot of them was in 2024 for my Top 75 work. I also got paid 20 mil for tracking 2010 -> 2018 trade histories for all trades. Which looking back on I got severely underpaid lol. But it was for the love of the SHL than anything else. The average payout for media for me is 3 mil.

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For jobs, I mean 2023 and 2024 is how I earned that much money. Each year other than that I was steadily increasing. However that being said 2023 and 2024 is the most. Earning money from SHL Dev pay. Biggest payment was 50 mil in 2023, for the completion of the the player portal on the site. Then as I helped out with the Portal, Index, and now cards I’ve gotten good pay for that.

My highest non Dev pay came in 2019 which was 12 mil for Update pay. Then in 2018 for Update Pay.

For Contract’s. The highest I’ve earned was 5 mil exactly 5 times. My S49-S51 contract. My S77 SFP contract with my retiring player. And then my S77 GFG rookie contract. Everything else I’ve been on a HTD or just paid myself in the 4 mil tier or below.

Finally I want to chart some of the most diehards along with me. Carpy, Jess, and Jove

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Carpy and Jess both longstanding users. Earned a ton of money from Graphics and Trading cards like Carpy. Or Jess who just does literally everything. And Jove who is a newcomer to the new relative to us all. Who have managed to earn 250 mil already from jobs and 240 mil from graphics. SIngle handedly making the graphics for all events/draft, then weekly graphics. So just some shoutouts and looking at some time series other than myself

Beavie · 01-21-2025, 10:27 PM

The top one percent is weighing us down.

***RAmenAmen*** · 01-21-2025, 10:32 PM

Eat the rich

(and congrats Luke!)

By-Tor · 01-21-2025, 10:36 PM

Congrats, luke! Big time achievement. A quarter billion in jobs in a calendar year is crazy.

Your main chart starts to look really schizophrenic in 2022. Cards perhaps?

Credit to enigmatic, Merica, tweedledunn, and jaypc8237 for sigs

***sköldpaddor*** · 01-21-2025, 10:37 PM

look at this man. Writing media to brag about his money to earn more money as the children (@WannabeFinn) starve.

*RashfordU* · 01-21-2025, 10:52 PM

Trickle down economics not working, we need real change

***Ohtaay*** · 01-21-2025, 10:55 PM

What investment fund are you using?

***micool132*** · 01-21-2025, 11:00 PM

Congrats Luke, its impressive!

***luke*** · 01-21-2025, 11:01 PM

01-21-2025, 10:55 PMOhtaay Wrote: What investment fund are you using?

goin all in on media

*Carpy48* · 01-22-2025, 03:02 AM

Congrats! I remember when I was richer for you for a while and you've been on the site longer :D But then I stopped competing and just bought cards. At some point you really just have enough anyway.

The most interesting part for me personally was this line "Cards reaching 200 mil, makes me thing I could have hit a billion sooner if I didnt buy any cards" -> since I probably spent roughly around the same amount as you on cards (maybe?) I could've been above a billion too without them and if I hadn't stopped making graphics. However, we didn't really get paid for making trading cards that regularly since last summer or so and I have no idea how much will come in for that with the next regular payment, but it should be quite a bit too this time.