Why do teams guard how much they pay their pros and the like so fiercely?

In other sports it is common knowledge for the general public to know how much someone is getting paid and the other details on the contract, it puzzles me as to why it's so taboo to ask about it in a scene which strives to be looked at in the same way as any other mainstream sport.

docvoc

United States5491 Posts

September 11 2012 14:59 GMT

It could be a gentlemans agreement to make sure that people go to teams to play and not to gold dig, but mostly thats a conjecture. In real life, most people don't tell other people their wages, its considered rude to ask.

DanLee

Canada316 Posts

September 11 2012 15:41 GMT

It's to prevent players from knowing exactly how much they could potentially be worth, which causes a whole bunch of problems for teams.

BongChambers

Canada591 Posts

September 11 2012 15:57 GMT

Its not just teams but the players themselves.

Asking how much someone makes in SC2 or BW or w/e is like the same thing as asking a woman what her age is.

Its just not really polite and 95% of the time you wont even get a vauge answer.

Adebisi

Canada1637 Posts

September 11 2012 16:14 GMT

Because its nothing worth bragging about in most cases.

Lyter

United Kingdom2145 Posts

September 11 2012 17:03 GMT

I don't know, but I will say the pro wc3 scene imploded due to inflated wages that only MYM could afford at the time, causing players on smaller teams to demand higher, causing lots of teams to go bust/drop lots of the roster

Perseverance

Japan2800 Posts

September 11 2012 18:18 GMT

On September 12 2012 01:14 Adebisi wrote:
Because its nothing worth bragging about in most cases.

This and the post above me pretty much have it in a nutshell.

If eSports ever explodes and becomes as big as traditional sports I am 100% sure this current trend with change for transparency.

QuanticHawk

United States32146 Posts

September 11 2012 18:23 GMT

On September 12 2012 00:41 DanLee wrote:
It's to prevent players from knowing exactly how much they could potentially be worth, which causes a whole bunch of problems for teams.

mostly this. Look how players quickly gauge each other's salaries in other sports, and demand comparable pay. This keeps costs down.

plus by not mentioning that most guys make peanuts, you don't ruin the hopes of some idiot college freshman gold league who dropped out to make it big!

Jaaaaasper

United States10225 Posts

September 11 2012 18:45 GMT

On September 12 2012 03:23 QuanticHawk wrote:

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Thats pretty much it.

RvB

Netherlands6277 Posts

September 11 2012 20:04 GMT

#10

On September 12 2012 03:45 Jaaaaasper wrote:

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Thats pretty much it.

They already knows eachothers salaries atleast I think Idra said something like that somewhere.

QuanticHawk

United States32146 Posts

September 11 2012 20:39 GMT

#11

I'm sure it isn't hard to go ask someone and use it as leverage, but it isn't as easy as going nhlnumbers.com and having it publically vieable

Gofarman

Canada648 Posts

September 12 2012 04:15 GMT

#12

On September 11 2012 23:55 Geordie wrote:
Why do teams guard how much they pay their pros and the like so fiercely?

In other sports it is common knowledge for the general public to know how much someone is getting paid and the other details on the contract, it puzzles me as to why it's so taboo to ask about it in a scene which strives to be looked at in the same way as any other mainstream sport.

They really aren't that hard to find out, rumors and 'secrets' abound. The reason it isn't public knowledge or logged in on Liquipedia is because that first guy that reveals legitimate numbers is gonna be burned in return. Eventually the teams will come to a point where they want to reveal them, either through bragging rights or a reality check for the scene.

WolfintheSheep

Canada14127 Posts

September 12 2012 04:33 GMT

#13

On September 12 2012 03:23 QuanticHawk wrote:

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It's been repeatedly stated by players on ITG and SotG that they all have a very good idea what everyone else makes.

I imagine Koreans have a somewhat inflated view of foreigner salaries (based on some previous posts about...Golden and Sleep?), but that's due to communication barrier more than hiding secrets.