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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking
Are merchandise purchases part of it? That would go a long way to explaining the Riders' higher total operating expense (and they sell a lot of merch so that would be reflected on the revenue side as well)
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Yes, CFL teams report merchandise sales both as revenue and as expense. Under a single entity those would be grouped into the league as a whole. As an example, in 2017, SSK revenue was $6.8M and expense was $6.3M on merch. SSK had six times EDM's figures in both these categories.
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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking
I don't think it's just about deeper pockets. There are a lot of standard costs every team would have to pay, regardless of their relative revenue.
Beyond player salaries, and coaching and management salaries, there's the costs of marketing and promo items, office staffing and overhead, travel for players and their equipment, team per diems for food and such, the playing equipment, other game-day purchases and rentals (e.g., heaters, misters, medical equipment, etc.), stadium rent if the team doesn't own their facility, utility bills, concessions purchases if not licensed out... probably more stuff too.
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Absolutely. Some of these expenses vary slightly between the teams that post their finances publicly. Unfortunately none of the floor teams financially post their finances publicly so we don't have an exact idea of what the minimum operating cost would be on a year-to-year basis.