MLS Goal and Assist Leaders (with Salaries), Finlay and Meram

Below is a look at MLS leaders is Non-Penalty Goals + Assists per game for players with at least 900 minutes this year. I've also included Salary on the far right to give you an idea of how much goal and assist getting players earn (it's a lot).

NPG+A per Game - Name (Team) $ Salary

1.17  :  Robbie Keane (LA) $4,500,000
0.97  :  Clint Dempsey (SEA) $6,695,189
0.93  :  Obafemi Martins (SEA) $1,753,333
0.92  :  Landon Donovan (LA) $4,583,333
0.88  :  Fabian Espindola (DC) $150,000
0.86  :  Maximiliano Urruti (PDX) $200,000
0.86  :  Fanendo Adi (PDX) $593,300
0.84  :  Thierry Henry (NY) $4,350,000
0.82  :  Diego Valeri (PDX) $500,000
0.82  :  Joao Plata (RSL) $70,000
0.79  :  Bradley Wright-Phillips (NY) $372,500
0.77  :  Luis Silva (DC) $134,440
0.74  :  Lamar Neagle (SEA) $110,000
0.73  :  Gyasi Zardes (LA) $198,000

0.72  :  Ethan Finlay (CREW) $65,847

0.72  :  Blas Pérez (DAL) $359,250
0.71  :  Chris Wondolowski (SJ) $650,000

0.70  :  Justin Meram (CREW) $91,827

0.70  :  Álvaro Saborío (RSL) $453,333
0.66  :  Marco Di Vaio (MTL) $2,600,000
0.64  :  Chris Rolfe (DC) $225,000
0.64  :  Kenny Cooper (SEA) $265,625
0.62  :  Javier Morales (RSL) $300,000
0.62  :  Brad Davis (HOU) $392,062
0.61  :  Luke Mulholland (RSL) $56,250
0.61  :  Gilberto (TOR) $1,205,000

Adam Jardy mentioned today that the Crew are working on Ethan Finlay's next deal and from the sound of things it's going pretty well for the player. As it should be, he is out performing his contract based on this metric alone. Meram, same.

In the list above I've included all players with over 0.60 NPG+A per game. It's league best type levels. I've found that it's also a level were players might start showing up on larger club radars.

One final note: Luke Mulholland. I called him out as a player to watch years ago when he was topping my USL Pro player ratings (which I hope to get to again this year). Pretty proud of that.

Can't overstate what Finlay and Meram have done this year in this category. Special season for both these players especially when you take into account their age and nationality in comparison to the rest of the stars on this list.