re: What are yalls thoughts on salary caps in sports?

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Championship counts are not the way to measure competitive balance. The way to measure competitive balance is to look at the variance between to top, middle, and bottom of leagues during regular season play. A well balanced league doesn't have a great deal of variance, while the opposite is true in an unbalanced league.

There is too much randomness in a playoff situation to rely on playoff results to determine competitive balance.

If competitive balance is the reason a league wants a cap, that helps greatly. But the main advantage of a cap is that it allows the owners to maximize their profits while still putting a great product on the field.

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This is particularly the case with baseball, where the best teams during the regular season gets knocked out regularly during the playoffs.

A better way to look at it would be to compare making the playoffs and winning divisions. Since the strike in 1994, the Yankees have only missed the playoffs one time, and have won their division a majority of those years. Their overpowering payroll advantage hasn't led to crazy WS advantage due to the way baseball playoffs work, but it has given them a huge advantage in making the playoffs and winning their division.

In MLB a 15-20 mil difference in payroll isn't a huge difference since you are only talking one major star, but once you start talking 50-60 mil it's a huge advantage when it comes to overcoming mistakes and bridging gaps for players. And that's not even going into the extra spending on players from other markets.