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Report: It Literally Does Not Make Financial Sense to Cancel Games at This Point

With the play­ers and own­ers meet­ing Sun­day, there’s still lit­tle hope that a deal gets done. The per­cep­tion is that they’re still extremely far apart. But here’s the thing. They’re really not.

From Ken Berger of CBSSports.com this morn­ing on Twitter:

So here’s where we are: At their pre­vi­ous % of 43, own­ers would get $ 13.1B/six years… at 50 pct, they’d get $ 12.7B …

At 48.5 pct, own­ers would be $ 367M/year bet­ter off that pre­vi­ous deal, which more than addresses $ 300M annual loss …

By hold­ing out for 50–50, own­ers are draw­ing line in sand over $ 400M total over six years, half of which they’d lose by can­cel­ing 2 weeks.

Sim­i­larly, play­ers are hold­ing out for $ 400m/six years by insist­ing on 53 pct. vs. 51.5 … they’d also lose half of that in 2 wks.

Also, dif­fer­ence between 53 and 51.5 for play­ers in year 1 is $ 70 mil­lion, which they’d lose in less than a week of can­celed games.

So to sum up, if games are can­celed tomor­row, it won’t be due to money or com­mon sense. It will be due to ego and stubbornness.

That is the money part, which makes sense. The psy­cho­log­i­cal aspect of nego­ti­a­tions, some­times, does not.

Some­times, you have to fol­low through on your threats to make sure the other side knows you’re serious.

via Ken Berger (kbergcbs) on Twitter.

If you want to boil that down, here you go.

Both sides are will­ing to have games can­celed despite the fact that it would actu­ally cost more thansplit­ting the dif­fer­ence at 51.5 percent.

It lit­er­ally does not make finan­cial sense for them to not make a deal.

But nei­ther side wants to go to the mid­dle. They want to win. They want that extra 1.5 per­cent. That’s where we’re at. 98.5 per­cent of the way there, and that extra 1.5 per­cent is the ocean. If it seems like that would indi­cate we’ll get a deal, don’t get your hopes up. That’s how moronic this whole thing has become. It’s about prin­ci­ple, not com­mon sense. It’s about ego, not busi­ness. The num­bers are there.

The sea­son is not.

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