[sdhgaiojfsa]

Well, since we don't know the terms of the settlement, we don't really know. Presumably one team's shareholders are slightly better off, and the other team's are slightly worse off than before, but it's hard to say by how much. In terms of global benefit, it's very hard to say, but humans aren't global optimizers.

[mulmen]

Is it accepted that negotiation is zero sum?

[sdhgaiojfsa]

In the case of adversarial legal disputes? They are rarely economically productive in isolation. Normally it's actually negative-sum.