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Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I actually looked into this during our last postseason run because I was curious. Players on the Super Bowl winning team stood to gain an additional $350,000ish in salary. That’s for the WC, Divisional, and CCG as well as the SB. Since there’s a two week gap between the CCG and SB, we’ll call it an extra 5 weeks of work - meaning about $70,000 per week assuming you win (the totals are lower if you lose).

Running some numbers, it looks like weekly game checks for a $1.2m salary would come out to just above $70,000 game checks. So if your base salary exceeds $1.2m, you are actually taking less money as you play into the postseason even if your team is winning.

Guys like Mahomes and Kelce go from making $3m and $1m per week to “only” $70k lol

And yet the owners make MORE money off of playoff games.

Pretty ****ed up.