Re: Competition vs. Profits in the NBA

2003-07-13 Thread Robert A. Book
equally. This, of course, gives a boost to smaller market teams. The last six Super Bowl winners have been Tampa, New England, Baltimore, St. Louis, Denver (twice) and Green Bay. All relatively large markets. Green Bay, Wisconsin is a large market?

Re: Competition vs. Profits in the NBA

2003-07-13 Thread Dan Lewis
Market size doesn't matter much in the NFL. There are only 8 home games per team and the TV contract is negotiated league-wide. It's almost salary cap independent. At 12:40 AM 7/14/2003 -0400, you wrote: equally. This, of course, gives a boost to smaller market teams. The last six Super

Re: Competition vs. Profits in the NBA

2003-07-11 Thread Dan Lewis
The business model I floated a year or so ago (sadly on April Fool's Day) gives visiting teams a % of local revenue, based on attendance. (See http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-lewis040102.asp) That'd probably create a happy-medium between the two forces. But more to your point, I'm

Re: Competition vs. Profits in the NBA

2003-07-10 Thread Robin Hanson
At 01:31 PM 7/10/2003 -0500, Fabio wrote: ... But a lot people inside sports seem to resent big market teams (Yankees, LA Lakers) consistently dominating the play-offs, although audiences seem to want dynasties from big cities. Is there an inherent problem here? Is it inevitable that there is a

Re: Competition vs. Profits in the NBA

2003-07-10 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
Robin said: The conflict you describe is that some people want more of a fair fight, and others put more weight on wanting my team to win. Of course the second group doesn't want to win via too easy or obvious an advantage. They may want the rough appearance of fairness, but in fact want

RE: Competition vs. Profits in the NBA

2003-07-10 Thread Mike Cardwell
In truth, the major pro sports (at least in the US and Canada)have very different buisness models that to different degrees skew the system to big and small market teams. First and formost, every league has different revenue sharing agreements between its membership. To my recollection, the