I am trying to insert a table into my blog. I set up the table in an Excel sheet, copied it to a word doc, saved it as an HTML file, viewed the HTML source and copied the table portion from the doc. It looks like it almost worked. Unfortunately it is formated as MS HTML, which is particularly ugly. I discovered that MS HTML is so ugly that the amount of text it uses only allowed for 25 lines of the table to be included in the WordPress comment field, which then messed up the whole blog page because the “end table” tag was lost and the rest of the page is set in tables. Try it at home to see what happens. I went back, deleted the middle ten rows of the table and repasted it here. A little shorter but it works. The numbers are based on 30 teams. At least the purpose of the table comes through.

Simple Revenue sharing. Baseball has 30 teams, each with their own level of revenue. Some are quite poor and others are quite rich. I set up the table with a $5M difference between teams in ascending order. So, the richest team has $145M more in revenue than the poorest. But, the richest team wouldn’t even have a team if they had no one to play. All teams depend on the existence of the other teams to have a league, to have games. So, each team, including the poorest, puts half of its revenue into a pot which is then equally divvied out to all the teams. This provides for an equitable distribution of revenues that will hopefully lead to a more competitive league. Now, the poorest team is only $72.5M behind the richest team.

NOTE: I suppose I could have gone and found the revenues for each team and put them in the spreadsheet, but I was just creating an example, so get over it.