The Detroit Tigers’ pay for their deflating postseason performance?

Just $31,544 — which is a nice check for most people, but a bit of a downer for the players compared to the past few seasons.

The $31,544 is the value of each share of Major League Baseball’s postseason ticket revenue that each of the Tigers will get for winning the American League Central Division. They then were swept in the first round by the Baltimore Orioles last month.

Last season, each of the Tigers got $129,278.22 for advancing to the American League Championship Series. In 2012, the Tigers each got $284,274.50 as the World Series runner-up team.

Cash generated by ticket sales from certain playoff games is pooled, and players get a portion of the money based on how far their team advances in the postseason. The money is known as postseason shares.

The players’ postseason pool was $62 million, down from $62.7 million last year and a record $65.4 million in 2012, MLB said in a statement Monday.

Player contracts — and paychecks — end on the last day of the regular season. Playoff teams get paid within 30 days after the World Series. Players on each team decide how the money is divided. Some of the money often goes to club staff, in addition to players.

Each of the San Francisco Giants will get $388,606 for winning the World Series. The Giants are distributing 47 full shares, several partial shares that nearly total the same as almost another 10 full shares, and 17 cash awards, MLB said.

The Tigers’ share of the pool was $2,015,860.01, MLB said, and the team issued 55 full shares, a total of 8.21 partial shares and nine cash awards.

The players’ pool included 50 percent of the gate receipts from the two wild-card games, and 60 percent from the first three games of each division series and the first four games of each league championship series and the World Series, MLB said.

The World Series winner gets 36 percent; the loser gets 24 percent of the postseason player pool. The two LCS losers share 24 percent.

The four division series losers share 13 percent of the pool, and the two wild-card losers get 3 percent.

The remainder of the money goes to the team owners, baseball and the umpires. Players also get a per diem of $98 a day on the road.

Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera briefly made headlines in October when it was reported that he refused to take a playoff share, but later it was said he had been kidding.

Either way, it’s not as if Cabrera needs the money: He has an eight-year, $152.3 million contract that expires in 2015 and paid him $22 million this season. Earlier this year, he signed an eight-year extension through 2023 that pays him another $248 million. That deal has option years for 2024-25 worth a combined additional $60 million.

If Cabrera plays through 2025, he’ll have been paid $460.3 million (not including any performance bonuses). By contrast, Cabrera’s office, Comerica Park, cost $326 million to build.