P.E Issue Analysis

Professional baseball players work tirelessly to perfect their craft and deserve to be paid adequately. Another reason the MLBPA chooses to keep a free labor market is that with a more open labor market, team revenues can steadily increase and lead to increased player salaries. A negative side effect of this, however, is that teams can receive and use supplementary party revenues, which can help outbid competitors for top-tier free agents, and raise the cost of a player beyond the means of teams with fewer or no supplementary revenues (Zimbalist 24). Under this circumstance, which is currently the present state of MLB, a salary cap may become a sensible solution. On the other hand, if a salary cap system was in place, teams might be tempted to cheat by underreporting total revenues.

In one of the most profitable industries in America, the National Basketball Association has increased in popularity and in revenue since their incorporation. With these growths, stardom and income have increased exponentially for the players. As the value of the players have risen, the salary cap has followed. Although the salary cap has risen, star players continue to feel like they are worth more on the free market than they are being paid. LeBron James, for example, is invaluable to the NBA’s bottom line. Yet, because of the salary cap, he gets paid around the same as Grizzly’s guard Mike Conley who is not considered a top-five point guard in the NBA. Although the NBA salary cap is in-place to promote competitive balance between the large and small clubs, the result is talent rich teams can keep getting richer because of low relative maximum player contracts

Sports stars aren’t getting paid enough each year to play sports because people who don't play are get paid a lot , the best players on each team should be paid the most, and MVP winners should be the most paid on their team. This topic is important because it need to tell the teams that the best players should be paid the most. A solution to this problem is to pay the best players the most. The best should be paid the

A.     One of the easiest solutions to solving this problem would be to create a league-wide salary cap.

In Major League Baseball the general belief is that the more a team spends on their payroll the more games they will win. With the absence of a salary cap baseball may seam unfair to the smaller market teams who can't bare the salary costs that the larger market teams can. In Michael Lewis' Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Lewis depicts just how the Oakland Athletics have been winning in an unfair game for almost a decade. The A's are a small market team that doesn't have nearly the amount of money at their disposal that their competitors in the American League do. However this past season the A's won their fourth American League West championship in the last seven years while having the lowest payroll in their division. In

Why are salary caps good? Salary caps are an agreement that puts a limit on how much you can spend on one Athlete and how much they can earn. It’s not about the game it’s about how many people they can get in the stage for that certain Athlete or Team. The more people that go to the game the more money there will be involved. There a limit to how much an athlete pay gets

Salary Cap will also affect motivation of the players if they do not get what satisfy them. They will be majorly playing towards maximizing their wealth rather than wining and keeping the spirit of the game alive.

The debate on if Major League Baseball should implement a salary cap is becoming a popular argument throughout the professional world of sports. I personally think that there should not be a salary cap for baseball. A salary cap is an agreement within a sports league that puts a controlled limit on the salary of each player. If the MLB had a salary cap, there would be no way for teams to be able to compete against each other. Throughout time, baseball has been viewed by society as America’s pastime. This is one of the strongest supporting claims on why Major league baseball should not implement a salary cap. There have been eight incidents when the MLB tried to enforce the salary cap causing multiple organizations to go on strike so the salary

There are many professional athletes who are overpaid a tremendous amount of money. For example, in 2013 the New York Yankees third basemen Alex Rodriguez’s salary was $29,000,000. Another athlete that was overpaid was the Philadelphia Phillies first basemen Ryan Howard. During the 2011 postseason, he tore his Achilles tendon and had to miss most of 2012 season because he was on the disabled list. He had a salary of $20,000,000 for 2012 and only played 71 games out of 162. Major League Baseball should impose a salary cap on athletes because athletes are being overpaid, they are signing big contracts, and some are not performing well.

Although, the case study of Manchester United gives us a good example of a brand’s ability to globalize, it does not give us a clear picture into how a league as a whole accomplishes these same goals. To get this clear picture of a successful global soccer league we can review a case study by Matthew Holt that examines the UEFA Champions League and its ability to succeed. The UEFA Champions League(UCL) was established after the UEFA European cup started to see more revenue increases based on the increase in television and digital technologies. (Holt, 2007) The goal of the UCL was to increase revenue through a newly structured European club soccer league. The first way that UCL accomplished this was through centralized marketing. This was accomplished through selling the television rights as the UCL brand rather than allowing the clubs to individually sell the rights to the games. This increased the value of the television rights and in turn increased the profitability of the clubs. (Holt, 2007) UEFA sold this UCL brand

In Major League Baseball the general belief is that the more a team spends on their payroll the more games they will win. With the absence of a salary cap baseball may seam unfair to the smaller market teams who can't bare the salary costs that the larger market teams can. In Michael Lewis' Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Lewis depicts just how the Oakland Athletics have been winning in an unfair game for almost a decade. The A's are a small market team that doesn't have nearly the amount of money at their disposal that their competitors in the American League do. However this past season the A's won their fourth American League West championship in the last seven years while having the lowest payroll in their division. In

If I could pay someone $25 million a year to get him/her on my team and generate $30 million, why not hire that player? The salary cap for the NFL is $102.5 million per team, and we currently have 32 teams, so we the public are paying 3.28 billion to those teams. Currently America is in a 11 trillion dollar debt, if athletes could get paid $150,000/year then we could save 1 billion dollars a year. The monetary worth of athletes exceeds the value that any one individual is actually worth. League officials should be using salary caps, negotiations, and legal tactics. Athletes' salaries are in increasing problem for the economy of our modern world. Although the sports have their own equal distributions, the overwhelming salaries of the leagues' highest paid players have made the average of salaries higher and higher each year.

Players, who play for Sunday league teams play on poor quality pitches, wear cheap and have poor quality kits, have poor facilities and finally they have to make their own way to matches. All of this and still they have to pay. While the players who have made it have the best facilities money can buy, the best kits by world known brands, quality pitches and get free travel to their matches, in supreme luxury. The funny thing about this is... that they are paid to do this. Some children want to play football but cannot due to lack of funds, so should professional football players donate a tiny amount of their money to help children to do their favourite hobby, football.

The Barclays Premier League heavily invest in promoting upcoming matches, local derbies and the overall code. It earns millions of pounds from advertising and promoting it’s brand across several platforms. While I understand that the A-League definitely isn’t at the same level as the Premier League, I believe more needs to be done to further expand the brand.

Professional football clubs need revenue. It is vital to the financial survival of a club as they have ultimately become a business. Money is a vital necessity to enable the club to function. From paying ground rent to the funding of the youth system and to even signing players for the clubs, it is fundamental that a club is making a profit. The owners of the clubs will want to see profits being made otherwise the club will eventually no longer be able to function.