Post by Purple Pain on Aug 31, 2018 18:33:36 GMT -6
NFL vs. NBA: Revenue, Salaries, Viewership, Attendance and Ratings by Mike Lukas
Lots more at the link: www.wsn.com/nfl/nfl-vs-nba
At first glance, comparing American football to basketball looks like an apples and oranges situation since there are a lot more differences between the two sports leagues than just the shape of the balls they use:
NFL teams have 53 players while most NBA teams employ only 12-15.
The NFL teams only play 16 games in a regular season while the NBA teams play 82.
NFL players purposely collide into each other while NBA players do their best to avoid that.
The NFL is made up of players of all shapes, speeds and sizes while the NBA prefers only the big and very tall.
The NFL season culminates with one giant Super Bowl while the NBA season ends with a weeklong, best-out-of-seven-games tournament.
And the list goes on and on.
But when it comes to the NFL and the NBA, what is worth comparing is the one thing that does make them both very similar, and that’s their desire to become America’s favorite (and biggest money making) past time.
Which league is leading in that goal right now?
Which sport do more Americans prefer in 2018?
Which league is better preparing themselves for worldwide domination?
In this article, we’re going to answer those questions and a whole lot more as we examine and compare the NFL and the NBA – their revenue, salaries, viewership, attendance and ratings – and try to figure out which sports league is positioning itself to be number one in America and in the world.
Let’s start by comparing each league’s revenue.
NFL vs NBA: Revenue
Which league makes more money, NFL or NBA?
Since there are only 256 regular-season NFL games each year and 1,230 NBA matchups, you’d think that the bigger overall revenue stream would go to basketball.
But it doesn’t.
Last season, the NFL made $14 billion in total revenue, which was over $900 million more than they made the season before and a $6 billion increase from 2010.
The NBA, on the other hand, made $7.4 billion in revenue last season, up 25% from the prior season when they made a total of $5.94 billion.
NFL teams average more revenue, as well.
NFL sponsorship revenue reached $1.32 billion in the 2017-18 season, with beer, trucks and fast food being among the largest spenders.
NBA sponsorship revenue was $1.12 billion in the 2017-18 season, with insurance, fast food restaurants and medical retail being among the largest spenders. Beer, surprisingly, slipped down two slots to become the seventh biggest NBA sponsor.
What’s the difference in how the two leagues share their revenue?
Of the $14 billion that the NFL made last season, mostly from national media deals, they distributed more than half of it to its individual franchises.
Last season, every NFL team received $226.4 million in national revenue sharing, which comes out to more than $7.2 billion across the league.
To keep the NBA fair, all Basketball Related Income (BRI) – ticket purchases and concessions, TV deals, merchandising rights and apparel sales – is excluded from revenue sharing. Instead, all NBA teams pool their annual revenue together and then redistribute it – from high grossing teams to low grossing ones – and each team receives revenue equal to the salary cap that year. The salary cap for the 2017-18 NBA season was $99.093 million.
Which makes more money – the Super Bowl or the NBA Playoffs?
This one isn’t even close.
The Super Bowl actually brings in more revenue than both the NBA Playoffs and the MLB Playoffs combined.
Last season, the revenue from Super Bowl LII easily surpassed $500 million. Ad spending alone for in-game spots exceeded $400 million, as it did the previous season. Anheuser-Busch InBev and Fiat Chrysler Automotive were the top-spending parent companies in that game.
It’s a lot harder to track the total revenue of the NBA Playoffs since each season it lasts anywhere from four games (if it’s a sweep) to seven games, and obviously the more games there are, the more money there is to be made by everyone.
Some more cynical fans suspect the reason some series go longer is because everyone wants to make more money.
At the end of the 2016-17 season, for instance, the NBA Playoffs between Lebron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers and Steph Curry’s Golden State Warriors went six games and brought $223.9 million in ad revenue. AdAge reported that, “A seventh game likely would have tossed another $45 million on the pile.”
In last season’s NBA Playoffs, the Warriors swept the Cavs in four games, so the money was considerably less than the prior two years when there were more games.
Bottom line: the Super Bowl typically makes more than twice as much as the NBA Playoffs.
Which teams are worth more, NFL or NBA?
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NFL teams have 53 players while most NBA teams employ only 12-15.
The NFL teams only play 16 games in a regular season while the NBA teams play 82.
NFL players purposely collide into each other while NBA players do their best to avoid that.
The NFL is made up of players of all shapes, speeds and sizes while the NBA prefers only the big and very tall.
The NFL season culminates with one giant Super Bowl while the NBA season ends with a weeklong, best-out-of-seven-games tournament.
And the list goes on and on.
But when it comes to the NFL and the NBA, what is worth comparing is the one thing that does make them both very similar, and that’s their desire to become America’s favorite (and biggest money making) past time.
Which league is leading in that goal right now?
Which sport do more Americans prefer in 2018?
Which league is better preparing themselves for worldwide domination?
In this article, we’re going to answer those questions and a whole lot more as we examine and compare the NFL and the NBA – their revenue, salaries, viewership, attendance and ratings – and try to figure out which sports league is positioning itself to be number one in America and in the world.
Let’s start by comparing each league’s revenue.
NFL vs NBA: Revenue
Which league makes more money, NFL or NBA?
Since there are only 256 regular-season NFL games each year and 1,230 NBA matchups, you’d think that the bigger overall revenue stream would go to basketball.
But it doesn’t.
Last season, the NFL made $14 billion in total revenue, which was over $900 million more than they made the season before and a $6 billion increase from 2010.
The NBA, on the other hand, made $7.4 billion in revenue last season, up 25% from the prior season when they made a total of $5.94 billion.
NFL teams average more revenue, as well.
NFL sponsorship revenue reached $1.32 billion in the 2017-18 season, with beer, trucks and fast food being among the largest spenders.
NBA sponsorship revenue was $1.12 billion in the 2017-18 season, with insurance, fast food restaurants and medical retail being among the largest spenders. Beer, surprisingly, slipped down two slots to become the seventh biggest NBA sponsor.
What’s the difference in how the two leagues share their revenue?
Of the $14 billion that the NFL made last season, mostly from national media deals, they distributed more than half of it to its individual franchises.
Last season, every NFL team received $226.4 million in national revenue sharing, which comes out to more than $7.2 billion across the league.
To keep the NBA fair, all Basketball Related Income (BRI) – ticket purchases and concessions, TV deals, merchandising rights and apparel sales – is excluded from revenue sharing. Instead, all NBA teams pool their annual revenue together and then redistribute it – from high grossing teams to low grossing ones – and each team receives revenue equal to the salary cap that year. The salary cap for the 2017-18 NBA season was $99.093 million.
Which makes more money – the Super Bowl or the NBA Playoffs?
This one isn’t even close.
The Super Bowl actually brings in more revenue than both the NBA Playoffs and the MLB Playoffs combined.
Last season, the revenue from Super Bowl LII easily surpassed $500 million. Ad spending alone for in-game spots exceeded $400 million, as it did the previous season. Anheuser-Busch InBev and Fiat Chrysler Automotive were the top-spending parent companies in that game.
It’s a lot harder to track the total revenue of the NBA Playoffs since each season it lasts anywhere from four games (if it’s a sweep) to seven games, and obviously the more games there are, the more money there is to be made by everyone.
Some more cynical fans suspect the reason some series go longer is because everyone wants to make more money.
At the end of the 2016-17 season, for instance, the NBA Playoffs between Lebron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers and Steph Curry’s Golden State Warriors went six games and brought $223.9 million in ad revenue. AdAge reported that, “A seventh game likely would have tossed another $45 million on the pile.”
In last season’s NBA Playoffs, the Warriors swept the Cavs in four games, so the money was considerably less than the prior two years when there were more games.
Bottom line: the Super Bowl typically makes more than twice as much as the NBA Playoffs.
Which teams are worth more, NFL or NBA?
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Lots more at the link: www.wsn.com/nfl/nfl-vs-nba
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