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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
The league did sign the MOU but the situation back in July when that was signed compared to now has changed and North America is in a worse sport with COVID.
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This question isn’t being asked to you specifically but there are a number of posters who keep stating that things have changed from what the league expected, so could anyone answer how 35%, 45%, 50%, 75% or any other percentage of the league’s usual expected revenue in preceding years calculated in July is materially different than the results of those same exact calculations in November?
That is what the league made their projections for, to decide what they could live with agreeing to. If they really had an issue with the no fans scenario they themselves accounted for they would have negotiated safeguards against that, much like the players did to account for revenues returning to normal quicker than expected. The league acknowledging this potential outcome and negotiating a deal based on that being one of many possible expectable outcomes is in essence the league agreeing to take on the liability of that outcome.
I can appreciate that the league isn’t happy about how it worked out, the same as the players would not have liked it if revenues bounced back this season while they were still deferring 20% of their salary(which I doubt the league would have threatened cancelling the season over to remedy because “things changed” but that’s a whole other debate), but I don’t buy their argument that running their business under the current circumstances which based on their actions worked for them in July doesn’t work now.