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I just submitted this ticket to MFL:

This is definitely a MFL glitch.  Teams should be able to revoke outstanding offers after our trade deadline.  I hate having to sign on as commish, set abilities, then revoke offers because they don't want to see pending offers and can't get rid of them.  I know they roll off after the new season starts (dynasty), but the software should allow revoking offers that cannot be processed after the trade deadline.

Has anyone else ever submitted the same ticket?  If yes, what was their response?

This has been how it works for years and it's why I always make sure to revoke or reject all offers as the deadline is about to hit. Our deadline isn't until TNF next week, but I always have this inconvenience in mind. First noticed it maybe five years ago, maybe longer. 

It is extremely dumb, I agree. Just unsightly to have to look at old sent or received offers you can't do anything about until after the Superbowl. But I wouldn't call it a "glitch" necessarily, as it's been this way for years. Not like MFL changes functionality that often, to be fair. They do the bare minimum to keep it working and looking like an early 2000's site. It works for our purposes but there's nothing particularly great or user-friendly about it aside from it's customizability. 

ConnSKINS26 said:

This has been how it works for years and it's why I always make sure to revoke or reject all offers as the deadline is about to hit. Our deadline isn't until TNF next week, but I always have this inconvenience in mind. First noticed it maybe five years ago, maybe longer. 

It is extremely dumb, I agree. Just unsightly to have to look at old sent or received offers you can't do anything about until after the Superbowl. But I wouldn't call it a "glitch" necessarily, as it's been this way for years. Not like MFL changes functionality that often, to be fair. They do the bare minimum to keep it working and looking like an early 2000's site. It works for our purposes but there's nothing particularly great or user-friendly about it aside from it's customizability. 

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I've known about it for years as well, but that doesn't mean it isn't a glitch.  As a software developer I can tell you this is laziness on MFL's part.  I know it's an easy fix too.  if(tradeTransaction == "Revoke") and I pseudo code, "let it happen" regardless whether it's past the deadline.

edited to add:  I like Phantom Knight's suggestion -  it should be settable (or simply AUTOMATIC) that MFL simply cancels any open trades as soon as the trade deadline passes

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Thanks for the suggestion, I will forward this to our programmers to review.

- Julie

The real problem is someone accepting one of these trades when the freeze is lifted that is entirely lopsided by then.

I submitted this request a few years ago...maybe 2013... I don’t recall the specifics of the response but it was something like “a future update” consideration.  The current software was unable to support this change.

Don't they expire? Does that lock up too? 

kittenmittens said:

Don't they expire? Does that lock up too? 

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I believe they roll off when the next season is available.  Still bad you can’t revoke after the trade deadline 

I reentered a couple of MFL leagues after not having been on MFL for a bunch of years.  I had forgotten how unuserfriendly it is.  It's super annoying that it only shows the next week's opponent for players on the waiver wire.  So I have to individually pull up each schedule of each player to see who they are going to play in the following week.  Another thing that is annoying is they use yardage instead of fantasy points given up for opponent rank.  So I have to do an individual search for each player to look that up.  When you combine these two searches, it's ends up taking an hour or longer to do a proper waiver wire search on MFL that would only take a couple of minutes on a better organized site.  Often times I've forgotten most of what I looked up by the time I've finished doing the searches.

ConnSKINS26 said:

This has been how it works for years and it's why I always make sure to revoke or reject all offers as the deadline is about to hit. Our deadline isn't until TNF next week, but I always have this inconvenience in mind. First noticed it maybe five years ago, maybe longer. 

It is extremely dumb, I agree. Just unsightly to have to look at old sent or received offers you can't do anything about until after the Superbowl. But I wouldn't call it a "glitch" necessarily, as it's been this way for years. Not like MFL changes functionality that often, to be fair. They do the bare minimum to keep it working and looking like an early 2000's site. It works for our purposes but there's nothing particularly great or user-friendly about it aside from it's customizability. 

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their add/drop system is a pain.IMO

JohnnyU said:

Teams should be able to revoke outstanding offers after our trade deadline.

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Better yet, it should be settable (or simply AUTOMATIC) that MFL simply cancels any open trades as soon as the trade deadline passes.  No action by the commish or individual owners should be necessary.  Like you, as a former programmer, I know this is a very trivial patch.

Phantom Knight said:

Better yet, it should be settable (or simply AUTOMATIC) that MFL simply cancels any open trades as soon as the trade deadline passes.  No action by the commish or individual owners should be necessary.  Like you, as a former programmer, I know this is a very trivial patch.

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I like your patch.