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kutulu · 02-17-2006, 08:40 AM

I think the revenue sharing model works fine. The luxury tax model is worthless though. With the 2006 cap at 136.5M it doesn't do a damn thing. The threshold shoul dbe closer to 100-110M. Instead of having a fixed percentage based on how many times hte team exceeds the cap, it should be an escalating %. If the threshold is 100M, then it could follow this:

10% on the first 10M
20% on the second 10M
30% on the third 10M
40% on anything else

Last year, only NYY and BOS paid luxury taxes. They paid 34M and 4M respectively. If it was done the way I proposed above it would work out like this:

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NYY	 $213.10 	 $39.24 
BOS	 $141.90 	 $10.76 
NYM	 $119.20 	 $2.84 
LAA	 $115.90 	 $2.18 
SEA	 $111.90 	 $1.38

One other thing. In order to prevent parasitic teams from just taking the revenue sharing money and running. If a team's salary does not equal 1.5x the money they got via revenue sharing (averaged over like 5 years to account for rebuilding) they lose revenue sharing elibility for the next five years.

/I didn't know Seattle spent so much money last season. Ouch!

02-17-2006, 08:40 AM	#4 (permalink)
kutulu Junkie	I think the revenue sharing model works fine. The luxury tax model is worthless though. With the 2006 cap at 136.5M it doesn't do a damn thing. The threshold shoul dbe closer to 100-110M. Instead of having a fixed percentage based on how many times hte team exceeds the cap, it should be an escalating %. If the threshold is 100M, then it could follow this: 10% on the first 10M 20% on the second 10M 30% on the third 10M 40% on anything else Last year, only NYY and BOS paid luxury taxes. They paid 34M and 4M respectively. If it was done the way I proposed above it would work out like this: Code: NYY $213.10 $39.24 BOS $141.90 $10.76 NYM $119.20 $2.84 LAA $115.90 $2.18 SEA $111.90 $1.38 One other thing. In order to prevent parasitic teams from just taking the revenue sharing money and running. If a team's salary does not equal 1.5x the money they got via revenue sharing (averaged over like 5 years to account for rebuilding) they lose revenue sharing elibility for the next five years. /I didn't know Seattle spent so much money last season. Ouch! Last edited by kutulu; 02-17-2006 at 08:43 AM..