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Athletes and salary caps. Alec Clausing Prd. 7. Individual salary caps are unfair to players versus owners. Players provide the entertainment Limiting the money the players can make Major league sports are a business Owners make enough money. Babseballevolution.com, June 1, 2010.
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Athletes and salary caps Alec Clausing Prd. 7
Individual salary caps are unfair to players versus owners. • Players provide the entertainment • Limiting the money the players can make • Major league sports are a business • Owners make enough money Babseballevolution.com, June 1, 2010
Team salary caps • Make league competitive • Recruiting evenly split between teams • Differences between NFL, NBA, MLB Itsaboutthemoney.net, June 1, 2010.
Revenue sharing • What is revenue sharing? • How does it help the league be competitive? • What sports have revenue sharing? • Why don’t some markets like it? Shoutmeloud.com, June 1, 2010.
The NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB all have different systems • NFL might remove the system they have • NBA increases shared revenue by 63 percent • Complex NHL Revenue-Sharing System • The revenue gap is widening for MLB Doin-work.com, June 1, 2010.
How would salary caps affect the cost to go to a game? • Ticket prices • Concessions stand prices • Team apparel Aclutx70th.com, June 1, 2010.
Work Cited • Gammons, Peter. "Revenue gap widening". June 1, 2010 <http://mlb.mlb.com/news • lombardo, john . "NBA increases shared revenue by 63 percent". June 1, 2010 <http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/58828>. \ • sportsbusiness daily". June 1, 2010 <http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/article/95817>.