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Originally Posted by BIG17EASY
As for paying free agents what the market things they're worth, who sets the market other than GMs? So if the GMs only want to pay star players $3M a year in a certain offseason, even though comparable players under contract are making $10M per season, then isn't that the GMs colluding to set the market too low?
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Would you say that if the fans of a baseball team don't show up to a game unless they can purchase tickets for $20, then they are colluding to lower the price of tickets? No, they're paying what they think the tickets are worth, which is what matters in a free market. The owner of the baseball team can claim that the tickets are worth $50, but that means absolutely nothing if nobody buys at that price.