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Message: [QUOTE="NycUcWbbFan, post: 5343881, member: 13453"] In contrast, here is the current CBA “league-wide revenue sharing scheme”. [URL='https://herhoopstats.substack.com/p/wnba-revenue-sharing-rules-tv-contract']WNBA Revenue Sharing Explained - by Jacob Mox [/URL](HerHoopStats). It is a Rube-Goldberg Contraption where the players’ share is not directly based on “basketball-related income”. It is very very loosely based on “league-wide revenue” after carve-outs. The formula for players’ share is 0.5 x 0.7 x Net Overage, where Net Overage is year-over-year difference in Cumulate Revenue over Cumulative Target. Because of the Covid-shortened season, Cumulative Revenue had a mountain of a Cumulative Target to overcome before Net Overage above to be positive. As the NYT article [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/03/opinion/wnba-pay.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qk8.Smnr.Oy89g9MBuUAs&smid=url-share#:~:text=At%20the%20same,W.N.B.A.%20players%20get.']says[/URL], the NBA’s revenue sharing in the 50s-70s (i.e. before the mid- to late-80s when the NBA allegedly became consistently profitable) already had a not-overly wrought revenue sharing formula that paid players 40%+ of revenues. [/QUOTE]