The players do not try to avoid working hard, but sometimes teams will, because of competition and speculation, buy a player "with the goal being more to keep the player away from other teams than to actually use him," says China Times sports reporter Lin Ming-yuan. The business mentality is "the early bird gets the worm."
職業球員並非不責求自己努力，但是有時球團間因為競爭及商機，買下一個球員，「保有資源的目的，甚於使用球員」，中時晚報體育版記者林明源說，企業的心態是「先佔先贏」。