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Originally Posted by Sweed
This is what google showed me, 48%. Blurb is dated Dec. 2021, no idea if that has changed since then.
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That 48% figure is a misunderstanding of how MLB revenue sharing works.
The 48% value is used only to determine how much in total will be transferred from paying teams to receiving teams (the 'Net Transfer Value'). The actual amount teams share is lower, and varies due to the use of a weighted three-year average of local revenue to determine the transfer percentage for each club, which is then applied to the Net Transfer Value to calculate the exact amount a club pays or receives. This system has been in use since 2017. (There is also the added complication of certain teams being excluded from receiving revenue sharing due to defined market size. In this case the unused revenue sharing is refunded to paying teams, with the exception that some or all of such refunds might be forfeited if the team was a luxury tax payor.)
The details of the revenue sharing plans are in each CBA. Reading them as written does make them sound complicated, but once you start plugging in revenue numbers and run the calculations in a spreadsheet app, they become more understandable.