The odds paid to a successful bettor vary with the number of ranks intermediate between the first two cards (the "spread") as follows: one rank pays 5 to 1, two ranks pay 4 to 1, three ranks pay 2 to 1, and greater spreads pay 1 to 1.
Teams in the middle salary ranks, paying an average salary of $2.29 million, won 48.3% of their games.
Teams at the bottom of the salary ranks, paying $1.49 million per man, won 45.2% of their games.
Skee-Ball is the No. 4 ranked paid app in the App Store.
Here is a chart I built in 2005 ranking paid entertainments on hours of usage, rather than box sales.
Zooming in on the iPad, the highest ranked paid iPad application in the Apple App Store in April 2010 was Pages, followed by GoodReader for iPad and Pinball HD.
The highest ranked paid app on Apple in Aug was Camera Genius while the top free app was Sky Sports football score centre.
At the height of its success, Birdsong says it "was the top ranked paid for Twitter client in 91% of territories, and the #1 paid for social app in 51% of all territories".
Miniclip's first iPhone app, Fragger (iTunes link), was the #2 ranked paid app in the US App Store for two weeks and reached the #3 position in the store's overall top grossing app (at a price of $0.99).
