Packers Pep Rally

[coolman3]

Players are to recieve 59.5% of the NFL's total revenues. That determines the salary cap. Teams at spend least 56% (cap floor) of the salay cap on players.

I think you've mis-stated how it works. The 59.5% is the number used to calculate the salary cap - total revenue divided by 32 teams times .595), which is not necessarily what the players will receive. The minimum the players receive is 84% of the salary cap (same as 50% of the total revenue). So what the players receive appears to be somewhere between 50% and 59.%% of total revenue - depending on how much leftover cap space the teams have on average. My guess is that the number is much closer to 60 than 50.

I may have miscalculated the floor for each individual team, but was right about "clubs as a group have to average over 50%" (teams have to spend at least 56% of the salary cap on players).

Luckily I was speaking about the NFL as whole in my 28 pages long paper. Got an A.

[Zool]

I'm sure. Do you EVER take anyone at something they say, or do you always need to be proven wrong?

[Scott Campbell]

Luckily I was speaking about the NFL as whole in my 28 pages long paper. Got an A.

Luckily I'm not your professor. It took me 5 minutes of ghetto research to debunk the numbers in your 28 page thesis.

[Scott Campbell]

Scott, doesn't that assessment suggest that most teams are sitting at the salary cap floor? I would think most are closer to the ceiling and that anything much less than 60% might be a tad conservative (or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?)

I probably wasn't clear. I'm suggesting that the actual percentage of total revenue paid to players is probably closer to 60 becasue most teams use up their cap space.

[MJZiggy]

Thanks, Scott. BTW, Tank, my ex now goes to Georgetown. Which professor gave you an A on a paper? I need to know who to make fun of...

[Zool]

So when its all over for the year. Take away operating costs and staff. Are the owners really pulling down that much every year? In the neighborhood of $30mil average?

The old saying holds true. It takes money to make money.

[Scott Campbell]

So when its all over for the year. Take away operating costs and staff. Are the owners really pulling down that much every year? In the neighborhood of $30mil average?

The old saying holds true. It takes money to make money.

I don't think so. The owners have to pay for all the other operating costs out of their cut of the total revenue.

[coolman3]

Luckily I was speaking about the NFL as whole in my 28 pages long paper. Got an A.

Luckily I'm not your professor. It took me 5 minutes of ghetto research to debunk the numbers in your 28 page thesis.

My paper wasn't on the revenue sharing system. I only used it in the background discussion. The majority of the paper is about winning in the NFL and variables that affect it. Basically, I gathered a bunch of data and then analyze them to see if they impact winning.

According to my one of my regression model, scoring a lot of points win a lot of games.

[Scott Campbell]

Thanks, Scott. BTW, Tank, my ex now goes to Georgetown. Which professor gave you an A on a paper? I need to know who to make fun of...

It appears that Georgetown may have been a part of Tank's act. I'm not sure he ever went there. I think I read that he goes to UW Stevens Point.

[MJZiggy]

Are stadium operating services paid for by the team or by the stadium authority (the city)?

[the_idle_threat]

Are you seriously suggesting to me that Tank falls into that category of student?

touche'

[Scott Campbell]

According to my one of my regression model, scoring a lot of points win a lot of games.

Whoa - groundbreaking stuff!

[Zool]

Lets just set the cap at 60% of total revenue.

$5,120,000,000 would be 60% of that total
~$3.5b would be for everything else.

$110,000,000 would be per teams portion of non salaries to divide up.

An $80mil operating cost would still net them $30mil each per season.

Most teams lease the stadium and land.
In 2003 the Vikes were paying $5.5mil/season for the Dome.

2003 Article

Still researching for curiosity.

Seahawks sold the naming rights to their field for $5mil/season.

[coolman3]

"Meanwhile, individual clubs have to spend at least 84% of the Salary Cap on player salaries and benefits each year"

So Campbell, does your source say anything about making adjustments, or is 84% a constant figure??

Apparently I am not the only one confused. The sportsbusinessraido.com: "The 2006 NFL salary cap (the year of the new cba) was approximately $102 million dollars per team, while the salary floor was roughly $75 million per team."

If the cap floor is 84%, shouldn't the figure be about $86 mil, and not $75 mil?

[Scott Campbell]

Apparently I am not the only one confused.

True, but you are more confused than most.

I'm not sure about that site. Wasn't the CBA renegotiated sometime last year? The deal was struck between the owners and the NFLPA. Seeing that they were party to the deal, I have a hard time believing there is a more credible source out there than the NFLPA.

I think the entire document is on their site. But I'm done doing research for the day.