Rise of the American Professional Sports Cartel
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Rise of the American Professional Sports Cartel
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#2This article could be applied to the organizers of huge international sporting events like FIFA and Olympic committee. I would love to see the books of those organisations checked.
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#3These truly are cartels. The big change that happened years ago was the owners realized that they weren't in competition with each other on the field - the important competition was with other leagues and recipients of entertainment dollars. Then they started to cooperate, collude, exclude entry....
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#4The article mentions competitive parity in the NBA, but that's not true at all. There is no competitive parity now, and has never been. You merely have the same teams passing the title around.
In the last 30 years, only eight teams have won a title. Seven teams combined for 29/30 of those. The same teams are winning over and over and over. So examining the last ten years is meaningless when that is what's happening, you'll get a false sense of parity by seeing it shared among six teams in ten years (as though six different teams win every decade).
The bottom 15 to 20 teams in the NBA can never, and will never win a title under any circumstances. There is zero competitive parity. In 30 years, only one team has won a solo stand-out title, and that's the Dallas Mavericks.
One other problem with this article, they say that U.S. sports gambling has been estimated at $800 billion (it hasn't), and then they link to an article that doesn't say that at all. That number doesn't even come close to passing a common-sense test. The link is referring to world-wide sports gambling.
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#5This article could be applied to the organizers of huge international sporting events like FIFA and Olympic committee. I would love to see the books of those organisations checked.
It's exactly what you'd expect:
"The 2010 World Cup generated $3.66 billion in revenue for FIFA while expenses equaled just $1.30 billion according to their own financial documents. That is a nice little profit of $2.36 billion, up 7.3% from 2006 and 22.8% from 2002."
"If the 2014 World Cup shows a similar rate of increase, FIFA will profit approximately $2.61 billion from the tournament."
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#6For all the crap they do, they still deliver a better end product to the fans than what we have here in Greek football. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_league. Just look at the statistics section. Why bother being a sports fan if the outcome is so easily predicted? Parity between teams should be the goal of all league head offices.
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#7The article mentions competitive parity in the NBA, but that's not true at all. There is no competitive parity now, and has never been. You merely have the same teams passing the title around. In the last 30 years, only eight teams have won a title. Seven teams combined for 29/30 of those. The same teams are winning over and over and over. So examining the last ten years is meaningless when that is what's happening,…
Because the Miami heat and the San Antonio Spurs were such great teams back in the 80's and 90's?
From Wikipedia: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NBA_franchise_post-se...
"Of the 30 current NBA franchises, 13 have never won the NBA championship. The oldest such franchise is the Suns (46 seasons), while the Royals/Kings and the Hawks have even longer championship droughts (63 and 56 seasons, respectively). Only 7 franchises have never been to the NBA Finals, the oldest of which is the Braves/Clippers (44 seasons), and again the Kings and the Hawks have appearance droughts that are even longer (63 and 56 seasons, respectively). The longest a franchise has gone without appearing in the playoffs at all is 15 seasons: the Braves/Clippers franchise from 1977 to 1991."
Only 7 teams have not been to the finals. That's not awful.
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#8This article could be applied to the organizers of huge international sporting events like FIFA and Olympic committee. I would love to see the books of those organisations checked.
It's exactly what you'd expect: "The 2010 World Cup generated $3.66 billion in revenue for FIFA while expenses equaled just $1.30 billion according to their own financial documents. That is a nice little profit of $2.36 billion, up 7.3% from 2006 and 22.8% from 2002." "If the 2014 World Cup shows a similar rate of increase, FIFA will profit approximately $2.61 billion from the tournament." http://www.businessinsider.…
And pay no tax! Thanks FIFA!
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#9The article mentions competitive parity in the NBA, but that's not true at all. There is no competitive parity now, and has never been. You merely have the same teams passing the title around. In the last 30 years, only eight teams have won a title. Seven teams combined for 29/30 of those. The same teams are winning over and over and over. So examining the last ten years is meaningless when that is what's happening,…
Because the Miami heat and the San Antonio Spurs were such great teams back in the 80's and 90's? From Wikipedia: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NBA_franchise_post-se... "Of the 30 current NBA franchises, 13 have never won the NBA championship. The oldest such franchise is the Suns (46 seasons), while the Royals/Kings and the Hawks have even longer championship droughts (63 and 56 seasons, respectively). Only…
It doesn't change anything about the fact that only eight teams in 30 years have won the title, and seven have taken 29 of those. That's an extreme dynasty system. They clearly have nothing but an illusion of competition in which the radical majority of teams can never win.
Compare it to the NFL of the last 30 years. 16 individual teams have won Super Bowls during that time.
Or compare it to the MLB. 17 teams have won the World Series in 30 years.
That 30 years represents the modern NBA, since the merger, Magic and Bird sent ratings soaring, and Jordan + the rise of global media changed everything about the league.
Now you've got Chris Paul shuttled off to LA in a market-stuffing trade, you've got star players like Melo eager to join up with dynasties like the Heat, and other players like Kevin Love that can't get out of the backwater fast enough. They all know how the league works now.
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#10Garbage in garbage out.