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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

Keep in mind teams in OOTP don't have many of the expenses real-life clubs have. There's no general and administrative costs, for example, nor game costs (stadium maintenance, stadium personnel, field maintenance, repair, heat, power, security, etc.), nor team expenses (travel, hotels, meals, equipment, medical, and so forth), nor the costs associated with advertising and promotions. These other areas eat up a significant amount of a club's revenue.

If you want to see numerous examples of real-life financial data for professional baseball teams (as well as for other sports). see this thread in the Talk Sports sub-forum.

You do raise some very valid points there that many other costs get left out of the game. Never thought about stadium operating costs.