How does the MLB manage to have such a high revenue despite not

>>75213925
When you figure out how economics work you'll realize the whole mlb is dying meme was that and you fell for it

that shit is old from the times the Euro was weaker

now the dollar is weak because of Trump, I bet the numbers changed massively

>top 5 yuropoor soccer leagues make less money than the nfl alone

Topjej

>>75213941
The article isn't even a year old:

https://howmuch.net/articles/sports-leagues-by-revenue

>>75213925
Because the season lasts 162 fucking games and a packed out NBA game seats about the same as an average MLB game

>>75213925
100+ games/season

>>75213958
13.7 > 13 dummy

>>75214031
Only poor people such as your self don't round decimals. Probably because you count every coin you have hahahahahahahahaha

>>75214072
im richer than you faget

162 games

>>75213959
it's pre-Trump dollar crash

>>75214104
My friend, 1 dollar equals 17 pesos. I would be viewed as a God in your country

Lots of games. Even the rays sell well over a million tickets a year. Also their media platform is really profitable and IIRC they run ESPN's streaming program

Probably because it's the most popular sport for Baby Boomers in the USA, don't underestimate the power they still hold.

That's an old image. I'm sure the PL would be much larger now after the new deal.

>>75214125
today is 15, almost 14

see? your currency crashed

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>>75214135
>somebody makes a thread about baseball's revenue
>BUT IT SHOWS THE PL SO I HAVE TO MAKE IT ABOUT THAT AND ALL COMPARISONS SHOULD BE ABOUT THE PL

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>>75214104
What crash are you talking about?

>>75213925
>half the french flag is white

what do they mean by that?

>>75213958
USA = 319 millions people

Germany + France + UK + Italy + Spain = 313 millions people

the revenues are pretty much the same if you compare the markets they're operating on

>>75215132
yeah except those leagues have a much larger foreign viewership than the NFL

just accept that you got BTFO and move on

>>75213925

>Relevant in all the major markets and that's about it.

There you go OP.

>>75213925
volume of games, and its bad markets tend to have better followings than in basketball

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>>75213925
>making less revenue than hokkei

>>75215329

That's because all the transplants from Jew York, Bombston, Michigan, and Ohio that moved down south who couldn't give a fuck about the Rays, Marlins, or Braves. So they just follow their old teams from up north.

LGTSS

>AFL
>Ausfailia

Trump nukes that shithole when?

>>75215271
Pierre is right; it's quite comparable

>>75214133
Youth loves it too; it's big here in leafland and we don't even have a team. I'm bias though, it's my favourite by far since I was 10

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>>75220371
>it's big here in leafland and we don't even have a team

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>>75220371
>and we don't even have a team

>>75220392
We like football, and our league is far below the NFL. Where I live (Toronto) the NFL is very popular. Everything I'm saying is true. What exactly is your point?

>>75220415
We don't have an NFL team in Canada. This isn't debatable.

>>75220392
>>75220415
>surprised someone would forget about the Blow Gays

>>75220424
The post you were replying to was referencing the MLB, and you do have an MLB team. See my confusion?

>>75220440
This thread is about MLB. I don't blame you for losing focus though, the Jays only have one win this year.

>>75220443
>>75220446
>>75220449
That was me, and I misunderstood. Thought britboy was speaking about the NFL. My bad, a bit tipsy. And yeah, the Jays fucking blow. Gibbons out

>>75214191
BLOWN
THE
FUCK
OUT

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MLB TV viewership is fine.

It kills on regionals and the World Series will draw well even without big market and star driven teams.

The NBA's "popularity" is a mirage. Lebron is popular. Curry is popular. Anytime the NBA Finals don't feature a megastar, the ratings plummet.

>>75214104
>>75213941

Jesus you're a fucking idiot.

>>75214191
>yurocucks
LMFAO

>>75220485
That's what I find so amazing. Despite having very similar viewership as the NBA, the MLB is still able to take in nearly twice the revenue. I think it has something to do with merchandise sales. There are so many people that buy baseball hats without actually watching or caring about the game.

>>75220521
MLB plays twice as many games.

>>75220521
They don't have similar attendance. MLB has much higher average attendance due to bigger stadium size.

Also there's a lot more crossover of NFL > MLB fans than NFL > NBA. Most have baseball as their second favorite.

>>75220521
>Despite having very similar viewership as the NBA, the MLB is still able to take in nearly twice the revenue.

Twice as many games helps.

But I'd say the MLB is a healthier league than the NBA overall (at least in the US, as I realize the NBA is a more global brand).

The NBA is way too star dependent. The World Series is pretty much guaranteed to draw more than 12 million average no matter which teams are playing. The last time the NBA had a non-Lebron/Kobe Finals, average viewership was under 10 million. Hell, it was even under 10 million in Lebron's first finals.

>>75220526
>>75220577
>>75220578
Yeah these all make perfect sense. It's weird that it feels counterintuitive. I suppose that's just the "baseball is dying" meme.

What's that one with the little running man? Did they take the ball out of divegrass and we now pretend to enjoy men slowly jogging around with long stops to fake some injuries?
Oh wait, nothing's changed. Lol

>>75213925
Because it's our second biggest sport

>>75220607
>I suppose that's just the "baseball is dying" meme.

The "baseball is dying" crowd wrongly use national television ratings (usually on ESPN) to make their case. (World Series ratings trend older, but the WS also goes up against regular season NFL games, so fans of baseball teams no longer in the running have already switched over to following football season).

Of course the ratings are going to be "poor" for a national Mets/Marlins games or something. Fans of those teams will be watching the game on their RSN, while MLB fans will be watching their own teams.

But an NBA fan will usually tune in for a "can't miss" Lebron/Curry matchup.

>>75215271
you're forgetting your gillion ads

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benefits of a 162 game season

EPL is actually pretty good on a per game basis

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>>75221245
You have ads for 90+ mins around the field and on teams jerseys

Stay btfo and never reply to me again

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>>75214191

>>75221792
>google search your statement with ambiguous results
wow, I guess I got btfo

>>75221837
>pretty ubiquitously clear that Trump crashed the dollar 1-2 days ago
>ambiguous

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>Argentina
>'Your dollar crashed ese! is only worth 15 of our dollars now'

Muy gordo

>>75221872
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/04/13/markets-live-donald-trump-says-us-federal-reserve-should-keep/


>The US dollar rebounded this afternoon after languishing in the red earlier following Trump's remarks about the currency the previous day.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the US President said the dollar is "getting too strong" and that he would like to see interest rates remaining low.

After slumping 0.6pc in intraday trade, the dollar recovered against a basked of major currencies, rising some 0.3pc.

It followed robust macro economic data from the US, while trading was also thinner than usual due to the impending Good Friday holiday.

>>75213941
Wall Street is at an all time high thanks to our President.

>>75221906
Obama isn't your president anymore

>>75221875
It was 17 with Obama
It's now almost 14 with Trump

While you are laughing at "bore ball", the players get paid the most money than any other sports player in america and the MLB is seeding the sport in other countries, its already popular in japan and certain south american and island countries.
Now imagine when we get those cricket playing poo in the loos.

All while the NFL cant even make it in the uk

baseball was popular still when i was a kid, sammy sosa, mark mcguire, barry bonds.
The steroid trials is really what hurt baseballs popularity.
But its fans have always been super dedicated and autistic about it

The NFL is clearly the most popular sport in america now, but the NFL also scrambles the players brains, is getting boring, and has no pull outside of america

Pretty much the biggest complaint i see from plebes is why arent there 12 year old niggers with snapbacks in the crowd while some idiot DJ's

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>>75221875
I've never seen Nyquist used as a reaction image before.

>>75221792
Shut up you fucking illiterate nigger.

>>75213925
MLB Advanced Media is making them a shit ton of money. Also, record value for regional television contracts.

>>75222250
said the rural and/or suburban retard that voted for trump

>>75222268
Yeah, living right in the middle of the second densest city in America is really rural...

Kill yourself you syphilitic cunt. You made an objectively false claim and immediately got proven mathematically wrong.

>>75221792
holy fuck you are stupid.

>>75222417
oh look, a drumpftard leaf

>>75222296
Except I was proven right by even drumpftard Zerohedge

>>75215132
>>75220353
sure it's comparable to NFL alone. Adding in all 4 American sports and it isn't even close. The secondary sports in europe make a tiny fraction of the revenue of divegrass, hardly even relevant. The 2nd division divegrass make a little bit more as seen on that chart but still a tiny blip compared to the secondary American sports or even to "2nd division" football and basketball aka college.

NCAA itself makes 1B in revenue but individual conferences and schools make a shit ton more than that

The division I football conferences made 9.2 billion in 2014-15. Basketball probably a couple billion more

>>75222430
This is a whites only thread. I'm going to have ask you to leave.

>>75221759
>ads on jerseys and sidelines that dont affect play
>changing game rules to squeeze out extra shekels and ruin the flow of the game
hmmmmm

>>75222441
You're right, I didn't take all the other leagues into account, especially the ncaa

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>Argentinians
>Anything other than niggers

>>75222483
America is only 54% white if you include the whole population living there

>>75222441
>secondary sports make a tiny bit of revenue
Not exactly true. Firstly, consider that cricket is baskcally a global sport, because it's watched by most fucking pajeets in the world. And since I won't be arsed to look for numbers in england, I'll show you the numbers for Poland

Ski Jumping 48% of all households in Poland watched the (3rd rate) World Championship this winter. The combined amount of TV viewers across the world is 2,781 billion in only 2000 tv hours (better than fucking La Liga

Final of Volleyball WC 2014 was watched by 15 million TV viewers in Poland, which was more than any football match and had a 53% share in the market.

Handball WC 2015 3rd place match was 8mln people and 33% share in the market.

And that's only Poland. It doesn't include Alpine Skiing, F1, Tennis and other global sports.

>>75222977
We're talking revenue here senpai, not popularity. Other sports may be popular locally but they just don't bring in nearly the same kind of money.

The revenue for the french rugby league is about 300M and for the english league it's 150M. Those are likely the two biggest not-soccer leagues in Europe. Euroleague basketball makes about 150M and KHL I can't find shit about other than it's struggling financially. When it comes down to economics these leagues just barely hold a candle to soccer over there.

Cricket and rugby in general have very little revenue relative to other big sports since the primary draw of both, especially cricket, is international competitions. There are no hugely successful leagues like we have for our big 4 sports in the USA or most of the world has for soccer.

The more global type sports like boxing, tennis, golf, and especially formula 1 are for sure the biggest money makers in europe after divegrass but still way behind. They're also big money makers in the US though

>>75222430
You're embarrassing yourself, Juan Oliveskinner.

>>75222977
Cricket is an international sport though.

Even the IPL which could develop into a massive league is only for two months.

10 people watching 162 games>100 people watching 16 games

>>75221792
So this is the legacy of Cristina Kirchner.

>>75213925
Yankees

>>75213925
MLB is a local sport. Being that it is "luckswing", you can't tell if a player is good based on one game. You need to watch dozens to tell. Which makes it very boring to watch a neutral game on national TV with players you don't know. Baseball people watch their own local team and no one else. You would need to look at local TV ratings to get the true sense of its popularity. And you'd see that the bring in huge amounts of $ because the TV deal for a baseball team means that for 162 days you have a 3-hour telecast watched live by a huge portion of the local market, depending on the city. For example, the current Dodgers TV contract pays them 300 mil per season.

>>75223288
>we're talking revenue
No one is going to compete with 11 minutes of action and a ton of ads, kek
Does it feel good defending a product you reap no monetary benefits from that goes out of their way to worsen the experience with more and more ada

>>75213941
>Argentina in charge of economics

No wonder your country keeps defaulting

>>75221759
you're retarded

>>75213925
>How does the MLB manage to have such a high revenue despite not having the levels of viewership that other sports possess?- 84 posts and 12 image replies shown.

because they have a million regular season games + best-of-7 playoffs

all that ticket-revenue is what makes the difference

>>75223288
But TV viewership is directly tied to ad revenue and since I can't find direct financial reports, I decided to simply look up popularity. Also, aside from Footy and Basketball, international tournaments are more popular than any leagues (no matter if national or Euroleague), while only Hockey and Basketball have real international presence.

>>75220485
So according to that chart, real football ("soccer") is equally popular to basketball at this point?

>>75225327
no because this chart is "what is your favorite sport". so all it shows is that soccer has high hardcore fans but way lower casual fans, and basketball has low hardcore but way more casual fans.

so equivalent amount of people have basketball and soccer as their favorite sport, but just reading the ratings and money and such, basketball is still way more popular.

>>75220521
if you cut the attendance for MLB in half they still outperform NBA

even terrible teams like the indians get just as good attendance as memphis , kings , heats

>>75220521
They play twice the games. You double nba and you get 9.6

>>75228441
why don't they just play 4 times the games then?

>>75228382

>indians
>terrible team

????

>>75213925
>no uefa champions league

Kek, scared of the numbers burgerman?

>>75229418
https://www.statista.com/statistics/279067/uefa-champions-league-revenue/

>B-BUT MY 500 GORILLION VIEWERSHIP WORLDWIDE

>>75229380
28th in attendance

>>75221792
Trumptards BTFO!

>>75222268
This sort of shitposting would make you welcome in Canada

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>>75220485
>UFC has about as many fans as NHL
>an estimated 1/16th of the revenue
why? are bum fights not marketable

>>75229418
>The gross commercial revenue from the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League, the 2016/17 UEFA Europa League and the 2016 UEFA Super Cup is estimated at around €2.35bn.

wow amazing

>>75213925
It's a regional sport. Football overtook baseball in popularity in about 1971. Football is the national game. Baseball sold 71M tickets last year. If the ticket sales and popularity decline to dangerous levels, MLB will drop a few ballclubs. It'll always remain popular in the northeast. Areas with large White and Hispanic populations, it'll do well. The great ballpark experiences will bring in millennials. Ticket sales are down so far this year. MLB prays for the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Red Sox and Cubs to do well. That's what they need.
"Baseball is the greatest game of them all..." ~ Earl Weaver

>>75214072
13.7 rounded would be 14 doe

>>75214191
hearing retards trying to discuss the implications of governmental actions on currency values and monetary policy is slightly amusing but mostly pathetic

>argentina discussing currency values

try not defaulting on your debts spic

>>75213925
More importantly, why the fuck does the Nippon Pro Baseball makes more money than our football league? Are we this bad at making money?

>>75230693
yes you are. the corruption involving board members is well known.

>>75213925
Food sales in the stadium plus those stupid commercials that are worth so much.

>>75213939
Yeah, but the Brexit killed the UK more than Trump killed the US and the other Euros weren't gonna catch up anytime soon anyways

>>75221792
wtf I hate the dollar now

>>75229380
No fans lmao

>>75230693
Japan loves baseball