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The 36% could be the ticket pricing only, and doesn't include concessions and merchandise which the $1.7M and $1.8M do.
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From the reports I’ve read, the $1.7M/game is the number the 36% figure is based on. Which makes sense since I read that ticket revenue is around an average of $1.3M/game and that would fall short of being 36% of revenue.
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Seemed like they were referring to regular season games to me, but I honestly don't know.
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It’s actually ridiculously challenging to find some of these answers as a lot of sports journalists seem to just throw out these numbers without giving very much context on how they were calculated. Which is too bad because it would probably help paint a much more complet picture.
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Simple math with a lot of assumptions suggests they would go from a $770M profit to a $1.1B loss with a 56 game schedule and the players getting 72% of their contracts.
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Even simpler math with less assumptions would suggest that a league that has received $1.15B dollars in expansion fees over the last few years ought to be able to stay afloat in spite of that cost.
It’s pretty obvious that the season will go ahead so the owners are clearly capable of absorbing a big hit, I’m not saying it’s the right, wrong or best way to go about this, but it really makes me question why so many opinion pieces were speculating that this would put the league, its teams and/or the season in jeopardy when it’s becoming pretty clear that that is not the case.