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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 5355243, member: 966"]
I don’t think that’s true. “Worth” is an ambiguity. As is “value.” They’re in a market and the market supports it because the system exploits The People in order to maintain the system. The simple fact that there are now umpteen various streaming platforms from which to view games means there are more revenue streams for the leagues to suck from… and they suck from us. The ‘de-evolution’ from one cable bill to five streaming bills makes us an easier target for exploitation.

Have a look at this:
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.brewhoop.com/2016/8/8/12354486/value-in-the-nba-whats-the-value-of-a-win[/URL]

I would suggest there’s nothing “simple” about it, and even all this calculus doesn’t reconcile with actual salaries. Nor does it consider the alternative, the ‘magic regression’ scenario I tried to use as an illustration above. Again, if LeBron and Curry would do exactly what they are doing now, but for $20 million instead of $70 million, what is their “worth?”

Closer to home: was Eddie Lampkin worth $850k to us this year? Thats what he got. Getting and value are not (always) equivalents.
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