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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
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.
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The post I quoted said that 40% was obviously incorrect. I just tried to give some real world information, as I found it. Like almost any game, going from OOTP to real world finances requires some simplification of the numbers to make it work in the scope of the game's economy.
So does OOTP's default 40% (taking the word of the OP as to default) closely mimic real life after all is said and done? Then again, with OOTP's economy being done in the abstract way it is, along with the ability to set it to whatever we want, maybe it doesn't matter?