The Brewers (and Twins) are getting hosed on television rights

[KeithStone53151]

38 minutes ago, Sixtolezcano said:

I really don’t see the owners doing anything about sharing tv revenue or to make the haves an have nots have closer revenue because most owners don’t really think there is a problem.

100% agree on this. Nothing will change with the current structure unless the owners want a level playing field. 

[Playing Catch]

16 minutes ago, KeithStone53151 said:

100% agree on this. Nothing will change with the current structure unless the owners want a level playing field. 

Owners AND union. I may even argue that the union cares less about competitive balance than the owners.

[Brock Beauchamp]

6 minutes ago, Playing Catch said:

Owners AND union. I may even argue that the union cares less about competitive balance than the owners.

The union absolutely cares less about competitive balance. It's also not really their job to care, other than vaguely in the interest of "general health of the sport". The union represents its players, who generally have very short careers relative to MLB owners.

The union also has far less influence over how owners distribute their funds, which is the core of the issue here.

[KeithStone53151]

16 minutes ago, Playing Catch said:

Owners AND union. I may even argue that the union cares less about competitive balance than the owners.

The union cares exclusively about what percent of the pie the players get. I don't think they care quite as much how the owners share their portion of revenue amongst themselves so long as the players get their cut. If the owners came up with a new structure that involved a cap/floor and massive revenue sharing, as long as they all got their cut I just don't think the players/union would care too much. I could be wrong.

[Brock Beauchamp]

9 minutes ago, KeithStone53151 said:

The union cares exclusively about what percent of the pie the players get. I don't think they care quite as much how the owners share their portion of revenue amongst themselves so long as the players get their cut. If the owners came up with a new structure that involved a cap/floor and massive revenue sharing, as long as they all got their cut I just don't think the players/union would care too much. I could be wrong.

This is my take as well. Like most organizations, what the MLBPA cares about is money. 

[CheezWizHed]

Because it is what I do, I did the math to breakout the numbers a bit more. Oddly, this is one area to not want to be the Mets. But plenty of people getting 1.5-5x the dollar per viewer share than we.  Certainly "potential" viewers contributes to that, but Milwaukee viewership has been pretty steady for a while (result of winning for many years).

			Revenue Rate	RR/Brewers RR
Colorado Rockies	$    57,000,000	15,000	$        3,800	495%
Detroit Tigers	$    60,000,000	47,000	$        1,277	166%
Houston Astros	$    73,000,000	109,000	$           670	87%
KC Royals	$    45,000,000	37,000	$        1,216	158%
LA Angels	$  112,000,000	47,000	$        2,383	311%
LA Dodgers	$  196,000,000	120,000	$        1,633	213%
Miami Marlins	$    49,000,000	11,000	$        4,455	580%
Milwaukee Brewers	$    33,000,000	43,000	$           767	100%
Minnesota Twins	$    42,000,000	47,000	$           894	116%
NYM	$    88,000,000	180,000	$           489	64%

 

Revenue Rate is simply dividing Revenue by Viewer Share

Ratio is simply everyone's RR divided by Brewer RR as a percentage.