{"id":15180,"date":"2017-03-23T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15180"},"modified":"2017-03-23T08:32:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T12:32:32","slug":"rising-inequality-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/rising-inequality-in-the-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Inequality In The NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/032317_1229_RisingInequ1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Clark wrote that players in the NFL are increasingly divided into two categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the face of it it&#8217;s a great time to be an NFL player. The salary cap in 2017 is $167 million. A $12 million increase from last year, and almost a $50 million increase since 2011.<\/li>\n<li>But wealth is increasingly being concentrated in a few elite superstar players \u2013 at the expense of the average player.<\/li>\n<li>The lack of negotiating power is partly due to larger training camps and practice squad rosters \u2013 increasing the supply of players while holding demand constant.<\/li>\n<li>A rookie salary scale which reduced the income of newcomers \u2013 in an effort to direct money towards older players \u2013 had anchoring effects that changed how much money players expected to receive when they could freely negotiate pay.<\/li>\n<li>Teams have started including &#8220;injury splits&#8221; in their contracts for non-elite players. Players don&#8217;t get paid if they&#8217;re injured. This is estimated to have cost players $28 million in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Per game bonuses are a different way to achieve the same goal.<\/li>\n<li>If a team knows that they&#8217;ve made the playoffs, some have started keeping those earning per game bonuses on the bench to save money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read all the details on <a href=\"https:\/\/theringer.com\/nfl-free-agency-players-losing-leverage-864759d6cbdb?curator=MediaREDEF\">The Ringer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Clark wrote that players in the NFL are increasingly divided into two categories: On the face of it it&#8217;s a great time to be an NFL player. The salary cap in 2017 is $167 million. A $12 million increase from last year, and almost a $50 million increase since 2011. But wealth is increasingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/032317_1229_RisingInequ1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15184,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15180\/revisions\/15184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}