CCHL Bonus Cash - An Early Look

 Welcome back to the annual state of the CCHL Bonus Cash blog where I, your friendly yet stunningly good-looking commissioner, lays out how things look for bonus money.  

While we still do not have the blog money or twitter funds tabulated (that runs until April 15th), we do have all of the CCHL season bonus cash based on performance and lineups accounted for at this point in time.  

The biggest difference this year is that our bonus money for lineups being valid and accurate dropped about five million dollars and declined for the first time in four seasons.  Our record bonus payout was last season at $52.5 million as a league whereas this year we are paying $47.25 million dollars.  

We had five teams that did not qualify for even a cent of bonus money based on having nine-plus illegal lineups, while seven teams maximized the $4.75 million dollar bonus by having a perfect lineup for the season.  

In reality, the number isn't as stark as it seems, as two teams made up approximately five percent of all illegal lineups this season.  

Overall the lineups received were down 41 total lineups in total, but it did mark the fifth straight year of decline in lineups received.  The bright side is that while there has been a decline, the reality is last year we did set a record level of bonus cash for lineup validation, so there doesn't seem to be a true correlation between the lineups received and bonus money paid out.  It was also only down about two lineups per team in 2021-22 as well, so we're not really far off the pace we had last year when we set a record. 

Sudbury paced the overall bonus money thus far with eight million, while Siberia finished second with a solid $7.75 million and Fort Erie finished third with $6.75 million.  Wisborg also joined the six million club with that mark even as well.  

Full details will be posted in the coming weeks once our blog money and twitter participation has been accounted for.  Stay tuned for that and if you are interested in knowing your current total, please feel free to reach out to ask.