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redandblue4lyfe t1_itw22nm wrote

Reply to comment by Johnnnnb in Ireland defeat England in rain-shortened match at the T20 World Cup by jachiche

Uhh, the Indian premier league makes 3x the revenue per game compared to the mlb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_leagues_by_revenue.

Cricket is way more popular in Commonwealth countries than baseball (England, West Indies, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, India etc) while baseball is more popular in countries strongly influenced by the USA (Japan, S. Korea, Dominican republic, Puerto Rico etc)

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Nutaholic t1_itwbw2g wrote

Well when you only have 74 events it's not terribly surprising the average revenue per game is much higher.

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Johnnnnb t1_itw41zd wrote

That’s pretty misleading lol, they don’t make more money than the MLB

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TerritoryTracks t1_itw5dgd wrote

A lot more. And since he posted a source, and you're just going "nuh uh", you come across as a real twat...

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Johnnnnb t1_itw94bx wrote

Lmao. Did you look at the source? The MLB is 2nd to the NFL. The cricket league is 10th or something, has 74 games and 10 teams compared to 2500 games and 30 teams so going by “per game revenue” and player contracts is dumb af. Not to mention the minor league and beyond

“A lot more”

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TerritoryTracks t1_itw9qre wrote

Apparently reading isn't your strong suit. He specifically said revenge per game... Sure, the mlb, which plays several thousand games per season has more revenue over all... Typical American, can't read at 5th grade level but "America number 1!", lol...

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Johnnnnb t1_itwah6a wrote

Per game revenue is a pointless statement. When you have so few games of course you’ll have that stat in your favor. They don’t have a regular season, they’re “season” skips right to the playoffs. What do you think the revenue per game for playoff games is the MLB?

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TerritoryTracks t1_itwbbn9 wrote

The fuck are you smoking dude? Don't have a regular season? Of course there is a regular season, and only the top teams go into the playoffs. You have no idea what you are babbling about. The reason there are so few games is because it has to slot in between a very busy international calender, both with other leagues around the world and international games in 3 formats to compete for play time.

Stay with your MLB, and stop commenting ill informed crap when you don't know the first thing you are talking about...

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Johnnnnb t1_itwbiq5 wrote

Cant be that dumb. The IPL has 74 games. That’s playoffs

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TerritoryTracks t1_itweii0 wrote

Like I said, don't take shit you don't know anything about. You use words without any meaning.

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redandblue4lyfe t1_itw7agl wrote

Actually, the average ipl player makes more than a million more than the average mlb player. https://www.statista.com/statistics/675120/average-sports-salaries-by-league/

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Nutaholic t1_itwdg60 wrote

I am very confused where this data comes from. The most well paid IPL players I can find are making about 2 mil USD annually.

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Impressive-Squash-24 t1_itybly2 wrote

Because that isn’t annual pay. IPL players are getting paid that for just 2 months of their time per year. Cricketers in general are contracted to multiple leagues over the period of an year, aside from their own international contracts.

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Johnnnnb t1_itw8ud2 wrote

That’s because there are ten teams. Look at the list, MLB is 2nd to the nfl.

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ausmankpopfan t1_itwaec4 wrote

Show me where it says on per game revenue it's second to NFL please

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