There was a really good discussion and story on the ESPN program “Sunday NFL Countdown” today about individual player incentive payments — why are they necessary to motivate players and how do they distort the game in the last week of the season? Here is a related news story about NFL quarterbacks getting incentive payments for winning playoff games. Um, isn’t it their natural intrinsic motivation to try to win games and make it to … Continue reading Individual NFL Player Incentives – Why Are They Necessary? Do They Distort the Game?