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Originally Posted by cockypop
Or forget about lawnmowers for a minute... is Nick Punto worth $15 mil per season just because the Dodgers have that much money to spend? Because if OOTP ran MLB that's what he would be asking for.
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There is a distinct difference between the financial particulars of OOTP and MLB. The latter exists in the real world, an inflationary one where the numerical amounts of revenue and salaries grows over time, and has exhibited almost exponential growth since the mid-1970s. The average MLB player salary in 2011 was about $3 million; the average club revenue, about $220 million. If you take the growth rate over the last two decades and project ahead you end up with some remarkable numbers in even just ten years' time. (When I get back home to my regular computer in a couple of days I can post some numbers for you if you like.)
This illustrates some of the difficulty with comparing OOTP results to real life because OOTP's financial model isn't really equipped currently to deal with some of the factors of what happens in the real world.
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Originally Posted by cockypop
However in the OOTP 'market many $150 lawnmowers that WON'T bring in $75K in additional revenue are put on sale for $500 NOT because it is worth that much, but because the pool of available funds for lawnmowers is so large.
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In real life revenue grows over time, which means the cash on hand clubs have to spend on players grows, and that competition drives up salaries. So in that regard cash on hand does matter. If MLB was still generating the same level of revenue it was twenty years ago, salaries would be at about the same level as twenty years ago.
In short: if clubs have more money to spend, it tends to get spent.