As a new player, the league economy is something that I’ve yet to completely wrap my head around. As the season has progressed I’ve come to realize that if you take advantage of media posting then you can really pump in some cash for your player – and from there contracts really become almost completely unimportant. Just from what I’ve seen, I guess maybe one solution to keep people from constantly pumping out media posts just to cash in on money payouts would be to create some type of tiered payout structure where a player’s first article or two is worth maybe X amount, and then the payout gradually decreases for subsequent posts. The problem here is you would start to lose good, quality media posts from veterans who you really want to hear from. It’s a slippery slope. I do think that tiered payouts for media posts would work if you continued to have these various ‘media events’ where the payouts are worth more than a typical article would be. Also other specialized media events such as “all content written by a quarterback will be worth an extra $x this week,” or “players with a defensive touchdown this season, share your vision of the play and get paid an extra $x for your post.” All I know is I don’t envy the league office people trying to make these decisions! Good luck.
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