wdoupis wrote:I am just catching up on all of this talk and I know a ton has been said but here is my quick take. From what I can tell we try and model this like real baseball and in the MLB there is no floor and the owners argue the same thing. Players want a floor and owners say you get a floor and we get a cap and it goes away. I completely get the frustration.
As far as coaches, never would any organization not have them so I am not sure why we would ever allow that. Nick makes sense with the ridiculous salaries they ask for but it seems Reign had a pretty easy solution. If we can in fact adjust how much coaches ask for to make it realistic then that solves that issue.
As far as the floor, like real baseball it's a shitty situation that can be unfair that we just have to live with. Tanking sucks but everyone has to be able to rebuild how they see fit and if we really want to get realistic we can pull a Dodgers/Frank McCord and the league take the team over and fire the terrible owner.
I was not around for a lot of the examples you guys have discussed but this is my quick take from a relatively new and neutral party.
You have to understand that there is a disconnect between the way that we process revenue sharing and the way that MLB does it.
NDL: Every dollar spent on payroll (player and coaches) over the league average is taxed at 50%. This money is put into a pool and then redistributed to the bottom 15 teams in spending split that equally. It is possible to pay into the pool because you are higher than the average and also receive from the pool because you're in the bottom 15 overall.
MLB: Every team pays 31% of their net local revenue into a pool. The national broadcasting revenue goes into the pool. That money is distributed to the bottom 15 markets. Beyond this and unrelated to it, is the MLB luxury tax. That tax is set at a threshold of which only 4 teams hit it last year. The 1st year a team pays 17%, then it escalates to 50% by year 4. The money brought in from this is NOT redistributed as part of revenue sharing.
In comparison, we have local revenue generated in the game and it's done based on market size. The variance is something like $10m - $14m per team... which isn't terrible. We also have national broadcasting which is the same amount for every team. These 2, in essence, are the equivalent of MLB revenue sharing.
With all that said, the reality is, our luxury tax/revenue sharing system that we have in the NDL is completely made up and doesn't simulate the real MLB at all.