What do you think of these post-season paychecks?

[wiffleball 4,631]

Wild-card games (division winners): $20,000.

Wild-card games (fifth- and sixth-seeded teams): $18,000.

Divisional games: $20,000.

Conference championship games: $37,500.

Super Bowl winners: $78,000.

Super Bowl losers: $40,000

 

Those numbers for the 2009 and 2010 seasons increase to $21,000, $19,000, $21,000, $38,000, $83,000 and $42,000.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writ...mail/index.html

 

I mean, say a guy doesn't make the playoffs and he makes $4M a year. That's $250K a game. Now, he's up against much better competition and he's paid a mere fraction of that?

 

Yes, yes, I know "Glory, fame, pride, blah blah", but does this pricing system seem right? Especially given the television revenues from post-season games?

 

Seems pretty damn low given league minimums on salary. "Uh, I get $250K for playing DET in a dome during the regular seasons, but then when I March into the Meadowlands hurt on my 18th game of the year, sure, $20 grand sounds great! - Seems like that should be loooked at unless I'm missing something. For fock's sake, we've got kickers making more per meaningless game than Super Bowl Winners??

 

Dunno. Thoughts? Comments?

[FeelingMN 273]

It says that the league pays this amount to each player. I wonder if each player has a clause in their contract stipulating payment more according to the regular season. I'm thinking the league payouts are more like a bonus than an actual gamecheck, but I could be wrong.

[jocstrap 8]

I think its a nice vacation package to Jamaica for Ricky Williams

 

does Pennington deserve more?

[mozzy84 0]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writ...mail/index.html

 

I mean, say a guy doesn't make the playoffs and he makes $4M a year. That's $250K a game. Now, he's up against much better competition and he's paid a mere fraction of that?

 

Yes, yes, I know "Glory, fame, pride, blah blah", but does this pricing system seem right? Especially given the television revenues from post-season games?

 

Seems pretty damn low given league minimums on salary. "Uh, I get $250K for playing DET in a dome during the regular seasons, but then when I March into the Meadowlands hurt on my 18th game of the year, sure, $20 grand sounds great! - Seems like that should be loooked at unless I'm missing something. For fock's sake, we've got kickers making more per meaningless game than Super Bowl Winners??

 

Dunno. Thoughts? Comments?

say a guy makes the league minimum, those don't look to bad then. I would consider it a bonus if you already make the really good coin, its part of the job.

[RamslovaMartzhata 3]

Who pays this... the teams or the NFL? I would think that it's the NFL, and that in addition teams and individual players also have incentive laden contracts.

 

And is that cumulative (meaning that Super Bowl Winners get 20K + 20K + 37.5K + 70k... for a maximum total of 147.5K)?

 

edited for bad math skills:

 

Regardless, it's quite enough. You used a 4mil a year guy as an example. What about the guy who makes $250K? He gets over a 50% pay raise (if it's cumulative) if he wins the Super Bowl. Let's say for the sake of argument that it is cumulative $147.5K. When you multiply that towards a 53 man roster... that works out to a total of $7.8 million paid out.

[gocolts 300]

The entire premise of this question fails because the average salary for an NFL player isn't anywhere near 4 million a year.

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

How about Kurt Warner; his contract was filled with seemingly unattainable goals: playoffs, championships, etc......he almost maxed his out AND someone's got to PAY DA MAN next season.

[Big_Pete 0]

Actually, like others stated, it's more of a "bonus".

Last I checked, the teams/players "season" doesn't end until they run out of games to play. Whether that's 16 games or 19 games.

A player gets X amount for the "season"... anything extra is a bonus.

[jerryskids 5,172]

I like that they all get the same; it emphasizes the team aspect of post-season success. The undrafted special teams guy making the minimum gets the same as Fitz. Sends a good message.

[jerryskids 5,172]

Actually, like others stated, it's more of a "bonus".

Last I checked, the teams/players "season" doesn't end until they run out of games to play. Whether that's 16 games or 19 games.

A player gets X amount for the "season"... anything extra is a bonus.

Actually I thought they got 1/16th of their pay every week during the regular season. Maybe 1/17th with the bye, I'm not sure. Nevertheless, they don't get "salaries" during the playoffs.