NFL Says $4.7 Billion Sunday Ticket Verdict Is ‘Made Up’ Math

The National Football League is asking a federal judge in California to toss a $4.7 billion class action verdict a jury assessed last month, saying evidence didn’t show the league inflated the price of subscriptions for its Sunday Ticket broadcast package.

Testimony from two expert witnesses “should have been excluded and the case ended prior to verdict,” the league said in a Wednesday filing.

The NFL also accused jurors of relying on a “made-up methodology” to come up with damages the league called “nonsensical.” And, since the jurors rejected damage calculations presented by the witnesses, it’s clear the plaintiffs ...