Draft - June 9th

[Guest Edgy DC]

Abolish the welfare system of revenue sharing, and instead divy up revenues at the gate.

Give each a opponent a cut --- say, 35% --- from the day's stadium earnings, concessions, and broadcast revenues. I'd even make it 40% if they win and 30% if they lose, putting a purse on each game.

Than let teams go nuts in pursuit of all the amateur booty they want.

[nymr83]

="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr"]Somewhat coincidentally, Dave Cameron thought out loudon Fangraphs this morning about the subject. ]Abolish the draft, set budgets for teams to sign players via a pool of money pulled from revenue sharing, and open the bidding for any player not under contract to a professional team each summer. It's not exactly a free market, but it's a lot freer than the current system, decreases the amount of revenue-sharing money going directly into owners' pockets, lets market forces dictate deals, keeps costs down and, intriguingly, it opens the door to more locally-drawn local nines (and dozens of other intriguing strategies). That said, it fosters-- among other things-- an even-more drastic punishment of winning ballclubs than the reverse-standing-order draft. Thoughts?

so he's advocating the MLS model? (which they then broke anyway)

="edgy"]Abolish the welfare system of revenue sharing, and instead divy up revenues at the gate. Give each a opponent a cut --- say, 35% --- from the day's stadium earnings, concessions, and broadcast revenues. I'd even make it 40% if they win and 30% if they lose, putting a purse on each game. Than let teams go nuts in pursuit of all the amateur booty they want.

i don't see how thats any different from the current system, you're counting the money up differently but its still the same result, the rich teams pay the poor teams. they're already splitting the gate revenue by the way.

[Guest Edgy DC]

="Nymr83"]i don't see how thats any different from the current system,

You really don't? They're very different.

]you're counting the money up differently but its still the same result, the rich teams pay the poor teams.

Yeah, it's a different model, and it's silly to summarize them all as "the rich teams pay the poor teams.

]they're already splitting the gate revenue by the way.

Yes, I know. They pool and re-distrubute.