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jermleeds t1_j19jqzn wrote

Reply to comment by ohnourfeelings in US House passes equal pay bill in latest women's soccer win by PhantomWizard2099

The USWNT routinely outdraws (by a small margin) the USMNT.

Edit: Downvotes for providing relevant facts, with a source?

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kylemcg t1_j19mfr9 wrote

The article you posted says that the women's final (which included the US) barely beat out the mens final (which didn't include the US), in the US.

Worldwide the mens final destroyed the womens.

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jermleeds t1_j19n0qb wrote

>Worldwide the mens final destroyed the womens.

Worldwide viewership would not determine the pay rate for either national team, as it's not the metric of interest to US Soccer.

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kylemcg t1_j19nfht wrote

Why would they only care about US viewership? Money is money.

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jermleeds t1_j19pecm wrote

Bexause international viewership does not correlate to income for US Soccer as international broadcast rights are held and sold by other entities, whereas domestic viewership does. Low viewership of the Women's World Cup in Ecuador does not materially impact revenue for US Soccer.

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kylemcg t1_j19rlge wrote

That doesn't make any sense. Why would teams only get a piece of domestic viewership and not international?

If this is the case, Iceland's mens team would gave gotten basically nothing for its run in 2018 because of how small their country is despite that hundreds of millions watched them world wide

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sejohnson0408 t1_j1c3qcm wrote

Actually it does, because the prize pool for the women’s World Cup is small. During the broadcast for the World Cup this year they discussed that the us women would earn more from the men making the knockout round this year than they did from winning the tournament.

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