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Transfer market · Season 78

15 Oct 2026 · Season 79, Day 6

Cash glut: clubs held 506.7M as the S78 transfer market cooled

Clubs spent 52.5M on transfers in season 78, 24% below the average of the five seasons before, the smallest season on record. Adjusted for who was sold, prices fell 10% to their lowest in eleven seasons.

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Rich List

Rich List · Season 78

15 Oct 2026 · Season 79, Day 6

Australian Warlord heads the S78 Rich List, worth 24.0M — and has not raced since season 77

The 25 richest clubs closed season 78 worth 287.1M: 175.3M in cash and 111.8M in riders, every rider valued by the Echelon rider model.

Rich List editions

Season 78 · first edition

15 Oct 2026 · Season 79, Day 6

The 25 richest clubs at the close of season 78

Net worth (cash + riders), the biggest cash piles and the most valuable squads.

Data

Squad values · Season 78, day 90

15 Oct 2026 · Season 79, Day 6

Division 1 squad values

Every Division 1 squad and every rider in it, valued by the Echelon rider model: rider value, market value, range and quick sale.

Working papers

Working paper No. 1 · Draft v2

15 Oct 2026 · Season 79, Day 6

What is a rider worth?

A market-value model for OCM riders, and why it is built the way it is: role, scarcity, age and the state of the market.

Markets

Season 78 · Transfer market

15 Oct 2026 · Season 79, Day 6

Cash glut: clubs held 506.7M as the S78 transfer market cooled

Spending, prices (raw and quality-adjusted), the missing top end, the big spenders who sat out, and where the money went.

Study · Seasons 73–77

15 Oct 2026 · Season 79, Day 6

The OCM transfer market, seasons 73–77

Five seasons of club-to-club transfers: record fees, price multiples, division money flow and who profited.

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