Athletes and salary caps Athletes and salary caps

Alec ClausingAlec Clausing

Prd. 7Prd. 7

Individual salary caps are unfair to Individual salary caps are unfair to players versus owners.players versus owners.

Players provide the entertainmentPlayers provide the entertainment

Limiting the money the players can Limiting the money the players can makemake

Major league sports are a businessMajor league sports are a business

Owners make enough moneyOwners make enough money

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Team salary capsTeam salary caps

Make league Make league competitive competitive

Recruiting evenly split Recruiting evenly split between teamsbetween teams

Differences between Differences between NFL, NBA, MLBNFL, NBA, MLB

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Revenue sharing Revenue sharing

What is revenue sharing?What is revenue sharing?

How does it help the league be How does it help the league be competitive? competitive?

What sports have revenue sharing?What sports have revenue sharing?

Why don’t some markets like it?Why don’t some markets like it?

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The NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB all The NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB all have different systemshave different systems

NFL might remove the NFL might remove the system they havesystem they have

NBA increases shared NBA increases shared revenue by 63 percentrevenue by 63 percent

Complex NHL Revenue-Complex NHL Revenue-Sharing SystemSharing System

The revenue gap is The revenue gap is widening for MLBwidening for MLB

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How would salary caps affect the How would salary caps affect the cost to go to a game?cost to go to a game?

Ticket pricesTicket prices

Concessions stand pricesConcessions stand prices

Team apparel Team apparel

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