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Indian Premier League

also referred to as: ipl

55 statements across 2 episodes · 24 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 24, 2025 by David Rosenthal · said 215 times in 5 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: RedBird Capital Invested in Rajasthan Royals in 2021
“Also in twenty-twenty-one, Redbird, which is a U.S.-New York City-based sports-focused private equity firm, they invest in the Rajasthan Royals.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:07:19 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Rosenthal: IPL expansion franchises Pune and Kochi sold for $333M and $370M
“The two franchises that they auction off are Pune and Kochi, and those go for three hundred and thirty three million dollars and three hundred and seventy million dollars.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:43:04 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: Lucknow Super Giants Sold for $950M in 2021
“The other team, the Lucknow Supergiants, are bought by a domestic investor group for nine hundred and fifty million.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:06:30 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Opinion
Gilbert: IPL could not have existed without Lalit Modi
“You couldn't have the IPL without Lalit Modi, period.”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 4:14:57 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Rosenthal: The IPL is structurally superior to the NFL
“To me, this is not a controversial statement. The IPL is better set up structurally than the NFL. It is the Most perfect sports league that exists.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 49:36 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
IPL Rules Banned Franchises From Carrying Debt or Owning Stadiums
“No debt. No team is allowed to have debt and de facto, no team will own their stadiums.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 1:19:48 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: Inaugural IPL season averaged a 4.9% TV viewership share in India
“The average TV share viewership for the entire season is 4.9% of all active televisions in India are watching IPL, like on average.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:29:14 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: IPL unique viewership hit 620M on streaming alone in 2024
“In 2022, the IPL regular season uniques across the season were three hundred and sixty one million. 2023, that would grow to five hundred and five million. And then last year it was reported that on streaming alone, six hundred and twenty million people watche…”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:05:25 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: IPL Shared 80% of Central Revenue With Teams in Year 1
“Of the central media rights revenue, the broadcast deals like they've just done with WSG and Sony, and also the central sponsorship deals, 50%, one half of that, will get distributed out to the collective eight franchises to be distributed equally. But, here's…”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 1:50:44 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: IPL Grew 20x Since 2008 to Exceed $16B Valuation
“So successful, in fact, that it is the fastest-growing major sports league in the world, growing twenty-x in value since 2008 to be worth more than sixteen billion dollars today.”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:20 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Rosenthal: Saudi Arabia wants to invest in IPL's entire physical infrastructure
“The Saudis don't just want to invest in the league. They want to invest in the whole ecosystem. They want to invest in the infrastructure projects. They want to invest in the stadiums. They want to invest in the buildings. They want to invest in the retail goi…”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:41:37 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Rosenthal: Expansion IPL franchises Kochi and Pune folded after one and two seasons
“The Kochi franchise goes bankrupt after their first season in the league, withdraws from the league. The Pune franchise makes it two seasons, and then also withdraws from the league, citing financial difficulties.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:43:53 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Rosenthal: IPL viewership has reached 50-50 gender parity between men and women
“No other sports league in the world has done what IPL has done here. Today, IPL viewership is entirely fifty-fifty gender parity between men and women.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 1:27:42 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Rosenthal: 7 of 10 IPL teams won titles over 17 seasons
“Today, there are 10 teams in the league, and seven of the 10 teams have won the championship in the, what does it call it, 17 seasons that have been played so far. And every single team has at least been runner-up, I don't know, second place lost in the champi…”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:24:57 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Opinion
Rosenthal: IPL Originated as Lalit Modi's Revenge Play Against Rupert Murdoch
“And thus begins a 10 to 15 year journey that is not just the ultimate revenge play by Lalit on Rupert, but accidentally along the way starts the biggest sports entrepreneurial story phenomenon that has ever existed.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 21:15 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Insight
Rosenthal: Superior analytics is the only competitive edge in player auctions
“The only way for a team to gain an advantage over any other team in the auction is to have superior market intelligence, which has come to mean have superior analytics and superior player evaluation.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:10:25 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Rosenthal: Trackable foreign bets on IPL matches reach ~$750M per match
“The statistic is that just trackable bets placed through, Ben, like you said, foreign bookmakers in countries where gambling is legal, On IPL matches, I believe, is something on the order of, like, seven hundred and fifty million dollars per match.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:46:33 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Opinion
Rosenthal: The IPL auction and contract structure is the optimal model for sports leagues
“Every other sports league in the world should adopt this. They won't because the existing systems that they all have are too entrenched, but this is the new optimal system for running a sports league.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:16:05 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gilbert: IPL Risked Losing $4B to $5B in Enterprise Value During 2013 Scandal
“You had something on the order of, at the time, four or five billion dollars of enterprise value across all the teams that almost went to zero.”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:54:05 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025
Assertion Supported
Tata secured a 5-year IPL sponsorship for $300 million
“Tata, the, of course, big Indian conglomerate, bought it for sixty million a year for five years, so a three hundred million dollar deal.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:13:56 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
David Rosenthal: No domestic cricket league had proven valuable before IPL
“No domestic cricket league has ever proven valuable anywhere in the world. You know, there are domestic leagues in Australia, in England, in New Zealand, etc., but they're peanuts. You know, they're minor leagues. They're fine. They're not going to justify a h…”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 1:44:20 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Rosenthal: IPL players receive only 12% to 15% of league revenue
“In IPL, even today, I think players are getting 12 to 15% of the revenue of the league.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:13:49 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Sony agreed to a 10-year, $2.4 billion renegotiated IPL broadcast deal
“Sony is now going to directly do a ten-year deal with the IPL for 2.4 billion dollars. So two hundred and forty million dollars a year. Quite a bit more than the sixty million dollars that they had paid for year one.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:39:07 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Gilbert: All IPL player contracts are standardized three-year contracts
“All contracts are three-year contracts, which really reduces the gaming.”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:11:26 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Insight
Rosenthal: Large Centralized Media Revenue Is Essential for Sports Parity
“It is super important that your central revenue stream of your TV rights, deals, and your central sponsorships, that that be very, very large, and that that be the most important revenue stream for your teams, because that's what keeps competitive parity.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 1:24:58 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: Five-year US IPL rights sold for just $33 million
“The current five year rights to watch cricket in the USA are only worth thirty three million dollars out of a 6.2 billion dollar package.”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:13:06 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: Losing IPL rights caused Disney+ Hotstar subscriber contraction
“The Disney plus core actually does keep growing, but Disney plus hot star takes this huge hit and starts contracting.”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:11:53 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025
Assertion Supported
IPL's inaugural eight franchises sold collectively for $724 million
“So, minimum reserve auction price for the franchise auction is fifty million dollars per franchise, which would be paid over 10 years, four hundred million dollars for the collective eight franchises. They end up selling for seven hundred and twenty-four milli…”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:21:43 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Gilbert: Many IPL Teams Spend Only 75% to 90% of the Salary Cap
“In most leagues, what's the salary cap is the same as asking, on my P&L, what is the expense line for players? Interestingly, in the IPL, they don't pay the full salary cap. Plenty of teams are running around there with 7580, 90% of salary cap.”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 1:53:11 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Opinion
Rosenthal: IPL has no sports comparison except the Super Bowl
“There really is no comp for this in sports except for the single game of the Super Bowl.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 1:38:38 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Opinion
Rosenthal: The IPL is the most brilliant sports business plan ever
“So thus sparks, unquestionably, truly unquestionably, this is in zero way a controversial statement, the most brilliant, most successful sports entrepreneurial business plan Of all time. The Indian Premier League, a domestic, city-based cricket league in India…”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 48:05 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: The most recent IPL super auction was held in Saudi Arabia
“The most recent IPL super auction that just happened was held in Saudi Arabia.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:39:19 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2030
Rosenthal: IPL will add at least two more expansion teams
“At least two more teams are gonna get added in the next x period of time here.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:34:36 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Rosenthal: IPL teams earn 15% of revenue locally and 85% centrally
“Like right now, IPL teams are making 15% of their revenue locally and 85% essential revenue.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:38:19 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: Facebook bid on IPL digital rights in 2017 and lost
“And in 2017, Facebook bid on the digital rights and lost.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:45:09 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: YouTube signed a media rights deal with IPL in 2010
“In 2010, YouTube did a media rights deal with the IPL.”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:45:06 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rosenthal: IPL could rival the NFL in size by age 30
“And in theory, by the time it is, call it 30 years old, could be as big as the NFL.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:42:25 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Indian Police Bust Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings for 2013 Spot-Fixing
“Well, that very same season in 2013, the Indian police run a sting operation and bust members of two teams in the IPL, the Rajasthan Royals and the Chennai Super Kings owned by N. Srinivasan for spot fixing matches.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:49:14 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: Viacom18 paid $3.1B for IPL digital streaming rights
“Viacom-eighteen paid 3.1 billion dollars for the digital rights.”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:46:32 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Star buys five-year IPL media rights for $2.5B in 2017
“Rupert finally, finally, after, what are we now? 1011 years in, 12 years in, comes back to Indian cricket and does a two and a half billion dollar five year deal. So twice the value of the renegotiated Sony deal.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:55:52 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: Rajasthan Royals missed the 2008 IPL minimum salary cap and were fined
“So in the first year of the league, The Rajasthan Royals who have the lowest salary, they actually don't hit the minimum salary and they get fined by Lalit. So the maximum salary that he sets for year one is five million dollars or maximum purse for the auctio…”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:10:50 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rosenthal: IPL franchise demand will outstrip supply due to India's billionaire count
“There are a lot of billionaires in India, so there are a lot of potential buyers of sports franchises in India. And there are only 10 viable major sports franchises, the 10 IPL teams, and let's say they expand to 12 or 14 or 16, you know, whatever. There's gon…”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 4:14:31 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: Bollywood Avoids Releasing Blockbusters During the Two-Month IPL Season
“Bollywood studios are now very, very, very reticent to release movies during the IPL season because they don't want to go head to head. And this two month period Is effectively their summer. It's when kids are out of school. And so Bollywood is no longer relea…”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 4:21:14 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: India Added 230M People and Tripled Internet Penetration During IPL Era
“The TV penetration went from 40% to 74% during the IPL's run. Internet usage went from under five percent to over 60% today. The population, the literal number of people, increased by two hundred and thirty million. That is the adult population of the US stack…”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 4:17:34 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: Mukesh Ambani bought Mumbai Indians for $112M
“The most expensive franchise is the Mumbai franchise, unsurprisingly, being the biggest city, you know, where Bollywood is located, etc. Gosh, really, you couldn't script this any better. Duh. Is bought by Mukesh Ambani, the wealthiest person in India and the …”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:22:06 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: Shah Rukh Khan signed a $5M Nokia IPL jersey deal hours after auction
“The auction happened. Shah Rukh won the team at 12 o'clock at three o'clock. He had a signed agreement with Nokia to pay the five million for the front of the shirt for that year.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 1:34:25 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: IPL media rights grew at an 18% CAGR from 2008 to 2023
“Since 2008 to 20 23, the media writes have grown at an 18% compound annual growth rate from that hundred million dollar a year mark, going with the hundred million, not the sixty million.”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:25:26 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: IPL franchises rely on BCCI for talent development
“Right now, none of the individual teams, franchises themselves in the IPL are doing that. They are starting, but mostly that work falls on the BCCI.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:19:36 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: CVC Acquired Gujarat Titans for $750M in 2021
“The Gujarat Titans, which are acquired by the big British private equity firm CVC, for seven hundred and fifty million dollars.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:06:17 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: IPL Per-Match Media Rights Rank Second Only to the NFL
“Insanely, the media rights to each match are so valuable that they're second only to the NFL. The TV broadcast rights, let me just say this again, for each match are worth more than an English Premier League soccer match.”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:32 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rosenthal: A 'Drive to Survive' style IPL docuseries would crush globally
“But I think if you were to, and I'm sure people are in development on this, if you were to produce a drive to survive, full league narrative, full production value, Netflix, ongoing annual season special about the IPL, it would crush globally, like absolutely …”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:57:10 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025
Assertion Supported
Rosenthal: Bollywood star Preity Zinta became an IPL franchise principal owner
“One of the top AAA list actresses, an actress named Preeti Zinta, she ends up becoming the principal owner to buy another one of the teams.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 1:35:25 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Rosenthal: 2019 IPL final drew 300M to 400M unique viewers
“The final viewership numbers, best estimates are in three to four hundred million unique viewers that are watching the 2019 IPL final.”
David Rosenthal Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 3:04:30 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gilbert: IPL teams make ~$66M from central broadcast pool vs ~$4M from tickets
“We're looking at something today, like sixty six million coming from a central pool and only like four ish million coming from tickets. This is a TV product.”
Ben Gilbert Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 2:41:50 Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
Dec 15, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Michael Lewis reveals he is a minority owner of Rajasthan Royals
“I'm a partial owner of the Rajasthan Royals.”
Michael Lewis Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 1:40:27 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
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