Juat to understand the math for the “home gate”… how much do you think the average seat cost for a home game? 20 home dates, 17,000 people at each game. I don’t think the average is $200 per person (even food & bev spend). I sat on the floor, mid-court, for $500 re-sale for a game.l
If the WNBA does not fine the Aces for the 100k per player checks from the Las Vegas Tourism Board. The Indiapolis Tourism Board needs to start writing checks. No WNBA city earned more money off their team than Indiapolis. At some point Indiapolis will come up with the figure. Iowa City came up with that figure. I think Iowa WCBB was a $80M impact on Iowa City last basketball season.
There are similar states for Iowa when CC was in the last two years of her college...it was impressive. Someone has actually calculated CC's financial effect on Iowa, the state, not the city. That's impressive. With the Olympics it could have increased the US GDP. LOL
Management always lies about how much money they make, especially in a year when they are negotiating a new contract with labor. You can bet they made a lot more than they are admitting, and that they are profitable.
Here's a Caitlin Clark effect flex. Game 5 of the World Series with the two biggest stars in baseball drew 18.6m viewers, peaking at 21m and CC's final College game, the 2024 National Championship game drew 18.7m peaking at 24m largely because she was the draw.
Mick, why do you fixate on CC's $75K salary? CC enjoys playing basketball. An F1 driver once somewhat famously said (paraphrased) "I don't get paid to drive the car (meaning he enjoyed it so much he would do it for free), I get paid for all the sponsorship events". The WNBA is a vehicle for CC and as she often says, play BB the right way and everything else comes from that. When CC is 30+ years old, I doubt she is gonna regret joining the WNBA because of the salary level. CC is playing the long game.
💯 basketball will give her the opportunity to become the highest earning female athlete of all time (earning more than most guys too). Will overtake Williams one day… what, more than $600m ish? Maybe first into the $1B club with a long healthy career??
Engelbert is useless. She is so unqualified for this job and not at all up to addressing the league's issues. It's time for a big upgrade, but Adam Silver seems like a bit of a twit who has been lucky to be put at the head of an already successful enterprise.
Rookie pay is rookie pay, Mick. They can't pay Caitlin differently. Up to this past season, it has been an obscure, losing league, with the pay reflecting that. The money for players will improve going forward, as long as CC stays on the court and prospers for years to come. Caitlin is getting rich from endorsement deals and she will be getting much richer if she has a long and successful career.
Shouldn't be a guessing game, to know CC generated 30 mill means they've done the analytics and figuring out what each player generated should be a simple matter of math. I'm guessing the league doesn't wanna divulge BC the figures don't fit the preferred narrative. Can't make the "chosen ones" look bad.
I look at it a bit differently. How about the money that the "W" left on the table because they didn't capitalize on the "Clark Effect." Merchandising alone was millions.
And CC ain't getting not a single penny from all that money. Owner should pay her a ton more, that Fever contract (and Nike's) need to be renegotiated.
What a stupid caption!!! How did Caitlin generate $30m to WNBA? Is Caitlin Clark the ONLY Rookie putting butts on the seat in Chicago, Liberty, Vegas, Sparks, Lynx and other teams? All these teams recorded SOLD OUT games when not playing against Fever. So, pls stop the delusion guys. WNBA finals and playoffs recorded highest rating even without Caitlin Fever playing any of the teams.
That is just blatantly untrue. You can look at attendance numbers and see Fever games versus everyone else. It's true that attendance and viewership spiked this year across the board, but it was overwhelmingly in favor of the Fever. This is the "Clark Effect" where people are drawn in by her and then continue to watch other teams. Yes, the finals was the most-watched WNBA finals, but guess where all those new fans came from? The numbers back it up, so either you're the one who doesn't understand or you're just bitter and disingenuous.
@aden538 Did you forgot that CC fans said they boycotting WNBA playoffs after Fever lost out early? So, why attach same DUMB fans to WNBA finals ratings? They said they not watching cos their shegod isn't playing 😂😂
@@wilsonogunewe2053 ah, classic. So, because some people in the YT comments said they were boycotting, that automatically means everyone did? Who's delusional now?
Discussing $30m is a slap in her face. Fever home games gate was somewhere between $60 and $80m from about $5m the previous year.
Juat to understand the math for the “home gate”… how much do you think the average seat cost for a home game? 20 home dates, 17,000 people at each game. I don’t think the average is $200 per person (even food & bev spend). I sat on the floor, mid-court, for $500 re-sale for a game.l
If the WNBA does not fine the Aces for the 100k per player checks from the Las Vegas Tourism Board. The Indiapolis Tourism Board needs to start writing checks. No WNBA city earned more money off their team than Indiapolis. At some point Indiapolis will come up with the figure. Iowa City came up with that figure. I think Iowa WCBB was a $80M impact on Iowa City last basketball season.
Not to mention how much money the fans contributed to motels, businesses and restaurants in each city to watch the Fever games.
There are similar states for Iowa when CC was in the last two years of her college...it was impressive. Someone has actually calculated CC's financial effect on Iowa, the state, not the city. That's impressive. With the Olympics it could have increased the US GDP. LOL
Yooo dope fact
In a similar report, Angel Reese has generated upwards of $5000 for the WNBA.
Aww, c'mon man! At least try to be fair! Let's call it an even million.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That's not even enough to pay her $8000 rent.
Angel said “ME TOO !”
“LOOK AT ME !”
But you have to subtract from that amount the cost of the rims she broke with her clangers.
CLARK NEEDS TO BE THE FIRST WNBA PLAYER TO HAVE A MULTI MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT!!!
Management always lies about how much money they make, especially in a year when they are negotiating a new contract with labor. You can bet they made a lot more than they are admitting, and that they are profitable.
CAITLIN CLARK & The INDIANA FEVER on TICKET SALES ALONE, Home & Away Games Revenue was $100-$150 MILLION !
Here's a Caitlin Clark effect flex. Game 5 of the World Series with the two biggest stars in baseball drew 18.6m viewers, peaking at 21m and CC's final College game, the 2024 National Championship game drew 18.7m peaking at 24m largely because she was the draw.
League can't even pay her 1% of her value lol.
Mick, why do you fixate on CC's $75K salary? CC enjoys playing basketball. An F1 driver once somewhat famously said (paraphrased) "I don't get paid to drive the car (meaning he enjoyed it so much he would do it for free), I get paid for all the sponsorship events". The WNBA is a vehicle for CC and as she often says, play BB the right way and everything else comes from that. When CC is 30+ years old, I doubt she is gonna regret joining the WNBA because of the salary level. CC is playing the long game.
I agree everyone is complaining about CC salary except her
If she is foolish enough to join the Unravelled Circus she will regret it.
But every player is one injury away from retirement
💯 basketball will give her the opportunity to become the highest earning female athlete of all time (earning more than most guys too). Will overtake Williams one day… what, more than $600m ish? Maybe first into the $1B club with a long healthy career??
@@walratcliffe925 If everyone had that attitude we'd still be in the stoneage.
And this is after the WNBA and Adam Silver did everything they could not to make more. Congrats Catherine Engelbert.
Engelbert is useless. She is so unqualified for this job and not at all up to addressing the league's issues. It's time for a big upgrade, but Adam Silver seems like a bit of a twit who has been lucky to be put at the head of an already successful enterprise.
CC is the WNBA 🎉🎉
Rookie pay is rookie pay, Mick. They can't pay Caitlin differently. Up to this past season, it has been an obscure, losing league, with the pay reflecting that. The money for players will improve going forward, as long as CC stays on the court and prospers for years to come. Caitlin is getting rich from endorsement deals and she will be getting much richer if she has a long and successful career.
Shouldn't be a guessing game, to know CC generated 30 mill means they've done the analytics and figuring out what each player generated should be a simple matter of math. I'm guessing the league doesn't wanna divulge BC the figures don't fit the preferred narrative. Can't make the "chosen ones" look bad.
If the league last CC, the numbers would look very similar to years before. She's just printing money wherever she goes. Crazy!
I look at it a bit differently. How about the money that the "W" left on the table because they didn't capitalize on the "Clark Effect." Merchandising alone was millions.
And CC ain't getting not a single penny from all that money. Owner should pay her a ton more, that Fever contract (and Nike's) need to be renegotiated.
The deal the wnba got was so bad. Think the nwsl got more money than them
Must be a slow day.
You must not like CC
Something the BLC couldn’t do. Angry BL are not fun to watch play BB.
What a stupid caption!!!
How did Caitlin generate $30m to WNBA?
Is Caitlin Clark the ONLY Rookie putting butts on the seat in Chicago, Liberty, Vegas, Sparks, Lynx and other teams?
All these teams recorded SOLD OUT games when not playing against Fever.
So, pls stop the delusion guys.
WNBA finals and playoffs recorded highest rating even without Caitlin Fever playing any of the teams.
That is just blatantly untrue. You can look at attendance numbers and see Fever games versus everyone else. It's true that attendance and viewership spiked this year across the board, but it was overwhelmingly in favor of the Fever. This is the "Clark Effect" where people are drawn in by her and then continue to watch other teams. Yes, the finals was the most-watched WNBA finals, but guess where all those new fans came from?
The numbers back it up, so either you're the one who doesn't understand or you're just bitter and disingenuous.
@aden538 Did you forgot that CC fans said they boycotting WNBA playoffs after Fever lost out early?
So, why attach same DUMB fans to WNBA finals ratings? They said they not watching cos their shegod isn't playing 😂😂
@@wilsonogunewe2053 ah, classic. So, because some people in the YT comments said they were boycotting, that automatically means everyone did? Who's delusional now?
@@aden538 CC dumbasses are one and the same. They say the dumbest things. They think the world revolve around their shegod Caitlin.
What a naive bunch