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Originally Posted by FRPLG
These two don't go together. The owner's might shut the league down before they accepted a pay floor without a pay cap.
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Thats where revenue sharing and luxury tax would come in. That money would be distributed to the smaller market teams like Arizona, Cincinnati, and Green Bay for the sake of spending money on players. In researching baseball I've seen that the language of their CBA says that the money they recieve from revenue sharing must "be used to improve the product on the field." The language is so vague that some owners actually just pocket the money for themselves. By forcing them to spend the money on players you have a base for a pay floor.
God knows that if theres no pay floor then you'd see the Bengals and Cardinals free fall to the bottom of the NFL with $10 million pay rolls. Heck they've actually tried that with the most recent CBA.
Also baseball apparently has just as much if not more parity then baseball:
MLB on par with NFL when it comes to competitive balance - ESPN
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One more point. Another argument you hear is that the NFL salary cap system creates more competitive balance (or "fairness") because it's easier for bad teams to turn around their losing ways and make the playoffs.
Is this true? Not really.
Let's define a "bad" team as a franchise that has had at least two consecutive losing years. How often does that team make the playoffs? One final set of factoids from the decade:
Baseball: Eight of 80 playoff teams (10 percent)
NFL: 15 of 120 playoff teams (12.5 percent)
Pretty much the same rate (and remember, the NFL allows more playoff teams).
Some of the beliefs about NFL parity are just that -- myths. Pundits often cite the 2001 New England Patriots, who won the Super Bowl after going 5-11 in 2000 (Bill Belichick's first season as the team's coach). While the 2000 Patriots weren't a strong team, this was hardly a franchise down in the dumps. They had finished 8-8 in 1999 and had made the playoffs the three seasons before that.
(And for those who argue that baseball's competitive balance has taken a turn for the worse, five of those eight "bad to good" teams have come in the past four seasons -- the 2006 Tigers; the 2007 Cubs, Diamondbacks and Rockies; and the 2008 Rays. The NFL has seen only three such turnarounds in that span -- the 2008 Dolphins and Falcons and the 2009 Bengals.)
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Let's begin with some pairs of factoids for the decade, from the MLB and NFL seasons from 2000 to 2009.
Number of World Series champions: 8
Number of Super Bowl champions: 6 (7 if the Saints win)
Number of teams to reach the World Series: 14
Number of teams to reach the Super Bowl: 15
Number of teams to reach the league championship series: 21
Number of teams to reach a conference title game: 21
Number of teams not to make MLB playoffs: 7
Number of teams not to make NFL playoffs: 3
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MLB obviously has less playoff spots making it difficult to even make the playoffs.