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[QUOTE="donniesyracuse, post: 4196830, member: 101"]
[HEADING=2][URL='https://blogs.fangraphs.com/mlbs-competitive-balance-tax-is-anything-but/']MLB’s Competitive Balance Tax Is Anything But[/URL][/HEADING]
[I]...MLB’s argument is that the CBT is needed to increase competitive balance. Yet there’s very little evidence that it actually has increased competitive balance, and if anything, teams are farther apart since the CBT was implemented, not closer together. From 1984 to 2001, leaving out shortened seasons, the standard deviation of winning percentage was about 67 points. From 2002, the first year of MLB’s modern CBT, to ’21 (excluding the shortened 2020 season), that increases to 74 points; since the start of 2016, when salaries have been static, it’s 80 points.

Having more money, naturally, is better than having less money, but there’s a limited relationship between winning and total salary. Again, going back to 1984:

Only about 14% of the variance of team winning percentage has been explained by the variance in team payroll. Now, 14% isn’t zero, but you want there to be some relationship; it would be odd if there were absolutely no relation..[/I].
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