Nugget #3 looked at the difference between Salary Cap and Player Benefits, focusing on the fact that the money paid to players in the post-season is not part of Salary Cap, but is in the second bucket (Benefits), and paid from a league pool; playoff money is not paid by the playoff teams themselves.
Today’s Nugget focuses on the same general idea — postseason play, including the Pro Bowl — and how the amount of pay for those players is determined.
The authors of the book Crunching Numbers deal with this question on pages 219 and 220: