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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Salaries go down when work is scarce, not up. Take the lower 250 players out of the league and suddenly those guys that were in the middle become the lower 250, and the minors are full of newly minted "bubble" players chomping at the bit and willing to play for league minimum.
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No no, I get that. What I'm saying though is you still have the same number of superstars but now you have a lower salary cap and fewer teams to take on the burden of star salaries. So the top salary goes down, but now you have a team full of $3 million dollar earners instead of having the money spread out more widely. There would be greater wage parody between the stars and the lower rung players because you have to fit the same number of stars on fewer teams so you can't afford to pay any one single player 20% of your total salary any more.
Not to mention that the remaining teams are taking in fewer gate admissions unless you figure out a way to have 20 teams still play 82 regular season games. The logistics of shrinking to 20 teams would be a nightmare. The logistics of trying to spread out the talent pool again would be a nightmare.