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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
But the reason for the cap increasing is increased revenues. You're throwing in an additional 430M on average into the HRRR from the new TV deal alone. And on top of the money the American teams get from it the teams that benefit from revenue-sharing are getting an even bigger piece of that pie. When Mirtle's using the 5B+ HRRR to calculate the later caps, over 6% or 300M+ of that is going into the revenue sharing pot. Despite the cap implications the struggling teams are more than happy with the TV deal.
So I don't think you can just look at the increasing salary floor and call it a death knell. Struggling teams not capable of putting fans in the stands will still be in the red, but that's no different than today and if it's the same teams in 10 years from now it's about time to call it quits with them anyways.
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This is first and foremost a gate driven revenue league. Depending on the revenue sharing model, it's going to be extremely difficult for the lesser fortune teams to compete. And personally, I'd like to see more teams being able to compete.