Professional sports salaries benefits from a game with well defined rules winners and losers systems of measurement around scoring points.

A company has a bunch of other stuff that had to be in solid alignment to "win". Engineers have to be working on the correct problems to begin with to add exponentially more value.

It's not as simple as "crushing" the sprint points assigned rather chosing the problem set ... If chosing the problem set then it's leadership or founders which can be rewarded at 50x.