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Originally Posted by Neilk
Would each player get a distribution?
Eff them all.
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It is extremely complicated, the league uses projected revenue, sets the cap high, puts payroll money in escrow, and then refunds what is left over.
Your last sentiment is what most people feel.
Both are to blame; the owners are blind to the damage they are doing to the game. The players are being being duped by the union, they will never come close to recovering what they lose this year alone, let alone lost future (shared) revenue.
The owners did get the deal they wanted, but they failed to foresee the manner that the agents (and the other owners) would corrupt the process. They also failed to set the floor low enough to allow low income teams to survive.
The owners want the players to bear the brunt of the teams that lose money, the players want the wealthy teams to subsidize the poor sisters.
The root cause is a) no large TV contract (in the USA) to support the payrolls, and b) too many small market teams that aren't financially viable. But parsing off the weak teams would undermine Mr. Betman's master plan of ever increasing franchise value. The reality is he has built a house of cards that will eventually unravel (technically I guess it will collapse), but he will be sailing into the sunset as a very wealthy man by then.