Talk:List of professional sports leagues by revenue

Polish speedway

Feel free to correct me because I've never seen any speedway competition in my life, but as far as I've understood from the source, each of these teams has a home venue and plays there, thus meeting the previously discussed definition of a league rather than being a traveling tour like the Formulas, Nascar, etc... The source goes on about the matchday revenue being generated by these teams.

Tagging @Oknazevad

Relevant edit [1] Respublik (talk) 17:45, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Well, that's interesting. Never seen a motorsport with home teams like that before. I'm not opposed to its inclusion then. oknazevad (talk) 18:06, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Polish wiki pl:Speedway Ekstraliga (2021) seems to also describe exactly such a format, so I'm being bold and reverting then. Respublik (talk) 18:20, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

International Competitions' Revenue

When referring to international competition, the quoted revenue must refer for the team's revenue from that competition only, and not for the total revenue of its teams from all competitions.

Tagging @Respublik

Relevant edit [2] Respublik (talk) 21:31, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Please restore the amount of known revenue for EuroLeague (87M$)

SimTheWorld (talk) 21:10, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

That would be like comparing Apples and oranges. This whole list is composed of the sources comparing the league revenues of the clubs comprising a specific season, and beyond the previously discussed confines on how a league should be define, the "sports league" means exactly that, as we do not archive any historic seasons to define the article in another way. It probably would be useful to expand the detailing of the lead section on that, as the current text remains lacking any explanation at all, so thanks for bringing this up.

The source reverted could be useful for a list comparing TV contract revenues by league <there are few of these in the wiki, at least for football contracts>. Respublik (talk) 11:03, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

It probably wouldn't for that though, unless there exists a more detailed version from the EL itself, as the EL Basketball sells not only TV/league wide sponsorship rights for the EuroLeague, but also the EuroCup. This had been my primary reason for looking for an another source in the first place, now I remember. Respublik (talk) 11:17, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

The previous source did count only the revenue of the EuroLeague teams from the EuroLeague itself, and you are correct that's it's only money from TV.

Counting the teams' revenue from their domestic leagues as well is much more misleading in my opinion (it is written in small print in the photo) SimTheWorld (talk) 22:39, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

I don't see how is it unfair compared to all the other data? If you'd rethink it vice-versa, the revenue generated by the EuroLeague's distribution is included in the clubs' reports used for the domestic leagues. Respublik (talk) 12:47, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, it does go both ways, you are right. SimTheWorld (talk) 14:10, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

References

"Professional" sports leagues

I'd like to informally propose moving this to List of sports leagues by revenue. Aside from US NCAA college sports, a non-professional sports league that nevertheless brings in over US$15 billion per year (good enough for #2 on this list), how many non-professional sports leagues would actually have enough revenue to make it on this list? I'm assuming not many. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 21:44, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

This would be slightly more complex than you're giving on, as college football is not a single entity or league. NCAA is unaffiliated with the College Football Playoff and decision-making power largely rests in individual conferences, where conferences like the Big 10 individually own and negotiate their own media rights + revenue, set their own schedules/rules, and have their own commissioners. You're essentially suggesting to combine all college "leagues"/"conferences" into one entity, this would be more like a measurement for an entire industry, not a league like NFL or MLB 2601:647:5900:5D0:68AE:DBAA:1E1B:392F (talk) 23:38, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Add a Men's/Women's column for filtering purposes?

Was putting data together for a project and noticed there's no easy way to filter for Men's/Women's Leagues in the table - figure it's a similar use case to the "Country(ies)" column.

Obviously the list is going to be 95% "Men's", but figured it might be useful, especially as the WNBA is likely to get a lot more popular in the coming year and to avoid confusion in the future with Tier 1/2 leagues Wapapedia (talk) 03:41, 23 April 2024 (UTC)