Revenue sharing is necessary

[Al-Hoot]

This is a good for the whole league. It will make it more competitive, by helping close the budget difference between the haves and have nots, without harming the teams with the highest budgets.

In a league where there is a difference of $67 million (a whopping 74% difference) between the highest and lowest budget, revenue sharing-which would not hurt teams that make more revenue, because they are still gonna make enough to keep $40 mil cash every year, only makes sense. It is a balm to GMs and teams that are on the low end of the budget scale. The only way Revenue Sharing hurts the higher-budget teams is that it helps their low budget competitors. Or do higher budget team want to continue the oppression of low budget teams? With Revenue Sharing in place, high revenue/budget teams will still get their $40 mil cash, but instead of all the excess vanishing into hands of owners, it will be distributed to the poorer teams.

The league should be doing all it can to make it more appealing for GMs who take over crappy teams, and this is a sound way to do that.

[cheekimonk]

Nope. Salary cap along with requiring teams to have full coaching staffs is fine.

[Al-Hoot]

Nope. Salary cap along with requiring teams to have full coaching staffs is fine.

i disagree.

And I am also not gonna hold my breath till Calgary hires a full complement of managers/coaches.

[bschr682]

if we have revenue sharing I'd demand no salary cap. let me spend all my millions.

[Al-Hoot]

Revenue sharing is just a boost to crappy teams; it doesn't hurt better, high budget teams who will keep $40 million anyway. It just serves to help the league as a whole.

[bschr682]

revenue sharing is something i find to be absolutely rediculous. Whether we like it or not baseball is a business. Why would a good business want to share its profits with the lesser one? here fed-ex we at ups raked in the dough but we feel like sharing?

[Al-Hoot]

Because.competition.within.a.closed.system.is.a.good.thing.

The typical business model does not apply to a closed market.

Neither the MBBA, nor the the EBA, is an open free market system.

It is a conglomerate of, in the case of the MBBA, 24 teams. All teams need to be healthy, or things begin to excessively stink in Denmark.

Instead of funds evaporating into the hands of imaginary owners, they could be distributed to lower budget/revenue teams, which can only help the competitive balance of the league as a whole.

[JimBob2232]

The salary cap is $100M. There are only 4 teams with a budget of less than $100M (Hint: Hawaii is not one of them). So i fail to see what benefit revenue sharing will have, except on those 4 teams. And 2 of those 4 are very close to $100M. The only ones that are a ways back are Atlantic City and Long Beach at $92M and $90M respectively. And I'd venture to say that if they played better than .375 baseball last year, they would be over $100M as well.

Moot Point IMO.

[LambeauLeap]

Oooh boy, just what i'm looking for. Not only do I still have to deal with one slot in my batting order hit .140, but now we're goign to add more complexity to the game.

This is a BIG NO for me.

[Al-Hoot]

What complexity? You don't do anything, except win. The AI handles revenue sharing.

And, Jim, teams can do more with cash than just apply it to team budget.

[LambeauLeap]

No revenue sharing. BAD idea.

[JimBob2232]

What complexity? You don't do anything, except win. The AI handles revenue sharing.

And, Jim, teams can do more with cash than just apply it to team budget.

Such as?

[bschr682]

if you need cash spend some PP's. cash is essentially free in this league.

[aaronweiner]

As Jim put it, there are only 4 teams currently with budgets below the salary cap. This is also likely an impermanent fact. It is also important to note that of the four teams who are below the cap, only one of them, Phoenix, is even within $30 million of the cap.

That said, I DO think the budget system is kind of stupid, since we have a cap. I don't know why the budget can't be normalized with the cap.

[Al-Hoot]

if you need cash spend some PP's. cash is essentially free in this league.

heh. Not if one doesn't have PPTs.

And just because I got a lot this season, doesn't mean that'll happen every season.

Anyway, I'm signing off for this morning.

[bschr682]

everyone has some or at least should or theyd be in danger of losing their teams.

[recte44]

At what point are we all going to stop trying to change the rules this offseason?

[aaronweiner]

I'm guessing April 1. Then we'll start trying during the season.

[LambeauLeap]

Not until next Thursday.

and for the record the DH discussion wasn't about a rules change. it was to show all you anti-DH bigots (who you were not a part of until you jumped bandwagons) smoke crack or love shitty baseball.

[JimBob2232]

I think we should have instant replay as well.