The results are in. Thanks to everyone out there, especially my old office mate Arjun and my old boss, Steve Ballmer (I worked there a few years back, with this lone web page to prove it). They both provided some excellent perspective on my analysis. Now, let’s get to some charts and numbers.

Sorry about the misspelling on the chart. As you can see, hockey, golf and baseball all have similar lifetime salaries, but apparently there’s a much better chance of my boy going pro in hockey. In the end, unless my kid has some extremely special, Gretzky level talent, I think the hockey route is unlikely. At least I’ve got my data now to help me make those important decisions as my boy turns 3 months. I suppose I do need to take a further look at various forms of beating people up or getting beat up as Arjun suggests with mixed martial arts. And of course there are always the extreme sports. For now though, we might as well go with the data and strap on the the ice skates for a quick game of pickup hockey on Green Lake.

And for those who want to see a bit more of the raw data: