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Share-Based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other Than Options, Vested and Expected to Vest, Outstanding, Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Term

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Maximum Number of Shares Employee May Receive

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Maximum Value of Award to be Paid to Employee

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Percentage of Number of Common Shares Entitled to Receive

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Percentage of Number of Common Shares Entitled to Receive, With Stockholder Return Met

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Performance Period

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Stockholder Return

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award,Stockholder Return, Minimum Return for Awards to Be Awarded

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The maximum number of shares authorized for issuance under the deferred compensation arrangement as of the balance sheet date.

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Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based compensation awards.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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The number of equity-based payment instruments, excluding stock (or unit) options, that vested during the reporting period.

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The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the option's term.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The difference between the maximum number of shares (or other type of equity) authorized for issuance under the plan (including the effects of amendments and adjustments), and the sum of: 1) the number of shares (or other type of equity) already issued upon exercise of options or other equity-based awards under the plan; and 2) shares (or other type of equity) reserved for issuance on granting of outstanding awards, net of cancellations and forfeitures, if applicable.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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The number of shares or units of entity securities issued in the transaction in which equity securities were issued to pay for goods or nonemployee services.

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The maximum number of shares (or other type of equity) that have been approved for issuance in the equity-based payment transaction.

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Amount of capitalized and expensed compensation cost from equity-based compensation arrangements.

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For net-share settlement of share-based awards when the employer settles employees' income tax withholding obligations, this element represents the number of shares the employees use to repay the employer.

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Share-based Compensation and Employee Benefit Plans - Additional Information (Details) - USD ($)		3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Jun. 08, 2016	Jun. 30, 2017	Jun. 30, 2016	Jun. 30, 2017	Jun. 30, 2016	Sep. 30, 2016
Treasury Stock
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares associated with employee tax withholding for vesting of certain equity awards (in shares)				9,576
TPG
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Restricted shares awarded by related party (in shares)						100,000
2016 LTIP
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Effective period of plan	10 years
Number of shares available for grant	9,000,000
Maximum number of shares per calendar year employees are allowed to receive (in shares)		1,000,000		1,000,000
Maximum value of award employee may receive per calendar year		$ 12,000,000		$ 12,000,000
Shares available for issuance (in shares)				7,238,801
2016 LTIP \| Non-Employee Board Member
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Maximum value of award employee may receive per calendar year		$ 1,000,000		$ 1,000,000
PSUs
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Granted (in shares)				212,000
Stockholder return		35.00%		35.00%
Entitled percentage of common shares to recipient with a 35% stockholder return		100.00%		100.00%
Shares authorized for issuance (up to) (in shares)		424,000		424,000
Minimum stockholder return for awards to be awarded		15.00%		15.00%
Volatility rate				40.00%
Expected dividend yield				0.00%
Weighted average remaining contractual term				2 years
Unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested performance share units		$ 8,600,000		$ 8,600,000
Shares vested (in shares)				0
PSUs \| Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Entitled percentage of common shares to recipient		0.00%		0.00%
Risk-free interest rate				0.93%
PSUs \| Minimum \| Negative 15 to 0 Return
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Entitled percentage of common shares to recipient		50.00%		50.00%
Stockholder return		(15.00%)		(15.00%)
PSUs \| Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Entitled percentage of common shares to recipient		200.00%		200.00%
Risk-free interest rate				1.30%
PSUs \| Maximum \| Negative 15 to 0 Return
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Entitled percentage of common shares to recipient		70.00%		70.00%
Stockholder return		0.00%		0.00%
PSUs \| Selling, general and administrative expenses
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Compensation cost		$ 1,300,000	$ 300,000	$ 3,500,000	$ 300,000
Restricted Stock
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Granted (in shares)				5,434
Weighted average remaining contractual term				1 month 6 days
Unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested performance share units		100,000		$ 100,000
Shares vested (in shares)				0
Restricted Stock \| Non-Employee Board Member
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Granted (in shares)						64,518
Restricted Stock \| Selling, general and administrative expenses
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Compensation cost		100,000		$ 400,000
Restricted Stock \| TPG
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Weighted average remaining contractual term				1 year 10 months 24 days
Unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested performance share units		$ 600,000		$ 600,000
Vesting period						3 years
Shares vested (in shares)		33,333
Restricted Stock \| TPG \| Selling, general and administrative expenses
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Compensation cost		$ 100,000		$ 300,000
RSU
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Granted (in shares)				28,000
Performance period				3 years
Weighted average remaining contractual term				2 years 4 months 24 days
Unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested performance share units		$ 100,000		$ 100,000
Shares vested (in shares)				0
RSU \| Selling, general and administrative expenses
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Compensation cost				$ 100,000
Phantom RSU
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Awards issued to certain non-U.S employees (in shares)				10,500
Phantom RSU \| Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Performance period				2 years
Phantom RSU \| Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Performance period				3 years
Phantom PSU
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Awards issued to certain non-U.S employees (in shares)				10,000