If you want to depress yourself and also can get past the paywall, read the article in The Telegraph today:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2024/10/29/short-format-leagues-twenty20-prize-money-financial-riches/?WT.mc_id=e_DM443444&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_PrS_New&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_PrS_New20241030&utm_campaign=DM443444
Amongst other topics, it describes how some players sign up for franchise competitions without knowing until they arrive which team they are playing for; and how sometimes it's in a player's interests for his team to lose and not qualify for the later stages because the player is signed up for a different competition that overlaps - what the players call “double dipping”: earning from two competitions being played at the same time.