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[CaptainStubing]

um, ok. i'm not sure why each individual contract can't have performance-based incentives to reward surprising players, but whatever.

[Dragonite]

seems like a really stupid move. Why not?

[86WARD]

I believe this is different than the players individual contracts. I think this was in the previous CBA's and is based on playing time compared to the previous season and their original salary. If their playing time drastically increases, then they would get a bonus. But it's not part of the players indivisual contract.

[Walnuts]

All contracts should be 90% performance based. Especially rook contracts.

[CaptainStubing]

Originally Posted by Walnuts

All contracts should be 90% performance based. Especially rook contracts.

yep, that's basically my point. i'm not sure why a young player's contract wouldn't already have performance based incentives in it. Why the need for this league and union funded system? And, why wouldn't Cruz's contract have had incentives in it when he signed it? Shouldn't it be in every young player's contract?

[86WARD]

Cruz' contract may have had incentives in it. The "incentives" this article is talking about aren't the ones you are thinking of. These aren't "incentives." These are bonuses for playing time.

This money comes from a fund that looks at a players playing time from a previous season and then compares the playing time of this season and the contract the player has. If the playing time and contract are "out of balance," this "performance bonus" balances that out a bit.

[CaptainStubing]

Originally Posted by 86WARD

Cruz' contract may have had incentives in it. The "incentives" this article is talking about aren't the ones you are thinking of. These aren't "incentives." These are bonuses for playing time.

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there are a lot of contracts written with incentives based upon playing time/snaps played. i guess this is just a back-up system to protect players who didn't have playing time incentives in their contract.

[86WARD]

This is a CBA thing. Not a contract thing from my understanding. Players contracts have nothing to do with it and most of the guys that receive these bonuses are players making the minimum salary or salaries on the lower part of the scale. They don't have these escalators and incentives in contracts like that. This helps (or used to help) players playing a good amount of time (more than others in some cases) get a payout closer to the neighborhood of a player with equal playing time getting paid a higher salary.

[CaptainStubing]

Originally Posted by 86WARD

This is a CBA thing. Not a contract thing from my understanding. Players contracts have nothing to do with it and most of the guys that receive these bonuses are players making the minimum salary or salaries on the lower part of the scale. They don't have these escalators and incentives in contracts like that. This helps (or used to help) players playing a good amount of time (more than others in some cases) get a payout closer to the neighborhood of a player with equal playing time getting paid a higher salary.

you are correct. this is a CBA thing, not an individual contract thing. and maybe the lower paying contracts don't normally have escalators, incentives, or bonuses in them. But if that's true, then their agents should be fired because we all know there are many surprise performers every year and you would think their individual contracts would reward them for great performace.