“Numbers Game: The Accounting Side of Sports” For the most part, expenses are final, and for the most part, expenses are player salaries. Like any business, teams are always looking for the competitive advantage, something to set them apart. Each team gets a equal price of the league’s shared revenue pie. Just like in a regular business, the business has a fixed amount on how much can be spent and in professional sports they …showed first 75 words of 226 total…

…showed last 75 words of 226 total…paid a salary equal to the average of the top five players of that position in the league. In baseball the financial gains is mostly made out on the field, with the leagues most successful teams having the highhest payrolls, but in football sometimes the teams with the most success can lose money and the worst ones can be the most profitable because of factors such as fan attendence and the popularity of the team.