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Originally Posted by Skipaway
American leagues on the other hand hates owners who want to spend more for better teams. Salary caps, luxury taxes, drafts, revenue sharing, and all that. All basically measures to ensure owners who just want to make money can do that safely without somebody who just wants to win undermining them.
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Interesting point of view you have there. I don't think you're fully grasping the American model of team sports leagues.
Some things you might want to consider:
1. With the exception of the MLS, the team sports leagues in the States are all the premier leagues of their sport. That means that as a rule they have the pick of the best players in the game. Paying more doesn't bring better talent into the league.
2. Drafts are designed to distribute talent around the league with priority given to teams that performed poorly in the previous season. It's team management that makes all the difference, not the size of a team's market.
3. The salary cap is meant to promote competition in the leagues that have it. It prevents teams from taking advantage of the money available to it due simply to being based in a larger market.
4. In leagues with a revenue sharing agreement, teams split the TV contract evenly, again offsetting any advantage a team may gain due simply to being based in a larger market.
5. The value of a team is based entirely on winning. Some teams like the Yankees, Cardinals, and Dodgers have won so much over the years that even if they hit a period where the team is playing poorly over many seasons, the team maintains its value. Newer teams (like the Rockies) must win to make money, though. There's simply nothing else on which to judge the organization.
The only team sport that doesn't have a cap or revenue sharing is Baseball, and I think it'd do well to institute one. The movie
Moneyball illustrates the situation well.