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How does your league handle uneven trades? (1 Viewer)

We let them happen.

Get better at drafting or die.

Get better at waiver management or die.

Get better at properly valuing draft picks or die.

Get better at talent evaluation or...you get the point.

Everyone almost universally agrees with the above, but when it comes to trading people's brains get scrambled. All of a sudden it's everyone's job to protect other owners from themselves.

 
My Hope Street Alias said:
I'm curious, what exactly do you use to determine that a trade is "lopsided"? :thumbup: Are you guys so full of yourself that you absolutely know that one guy is better than another and it won't change?

Things change fast in the NFL. A trade that looks like it has a clear winner today doesn't necessarily mean it will look that way a couple weeks down the road.

Team owners should be free to manage their team as they see fit. End of story.

This board needs a "Unfair Trade" forum to eliminate these reoccuring threads from pool. Then all you "know-it-alls" can hang out there and amaze each other with how much you know.

:P
Thank you for being excellent to those who disagree with you. Read and learn from SSOG as quoted in my sig.
worst sig ever
 
Athletic Supporter said:
My Hope Street Alias said:
I'm curious, what exactly do you use to determine that a trade is "lopsided"? :confused: Are you guys so full of yourself that you absolutely know that one guy is better than another and it won't change?

Things change fast in the NFL. A trade that looks like it has a clear winner today doesn't necessarily mean it will look that way a couple weeks down the road.

Team owners should be free to manage their team as they see fit. End of story.

This board needs a "Unfair Trade" forum to eliminate these reoccuring threads from pool. Then all you "know-it-alls" can hang out there and amaze each other with how much you know.

:2cents:
Thank you for being excellent to those who disagree with you. Read and learn from SSOG as quoted in my sig.
Did I hurt your feelings or something? What term would you prefer I use to describe someone who tries to tell me how I should best improve MY team?Look, it's my opinion, one that I feel very strongly about, and my comment wasn't directed at anyone in particular.

As far as SSOG's qoute in your sig; competitive balance? When exactly is a competitive balance ever achieved in a fantasy league? Following the draft? Everyone values players differently. A draft simply divides the coveted players in the pool amongst the teams. There's no "balance" to begin with. Every league has teams that are deemed stronger than others at any given time. Other than the waiver wire, trading is the only way to tweak your team to your liking.

Go ahead, play in leagues that scrutinize trades (and you'll always have the problem of identifying a way to measure player value) and I'll play in the leagues where I'm free to sculpt my team into a winner.
No, not really, just part of my running commentary in these threads about how the "collusion only" guys seem to resort to name calling and insults to a much higher degree than the other side does. That's my impression anyway.

I respect that you have a very strong opinion about the subject. Just realize that I and many others feel just as strongly that there are times (rare times, in my opinion) when a fair commissioner has to rule for the good of the whole league. It's not fair that one or two disgruntled or whatever owners decide that they are going do their best to rig things, which is an entirely possible outcome when trades such as the one in my sig are made. That screws the other 8, 10, 12, or whatever owners who've also paid their $, too.

Speaking of collusion, I notice that the word hasn't come up much in this thread. You say that people should be free to sculpt their own teams. Does that include using collusion? That would be an extreme view but I'm curious if it's yours. If you hold the more common view that only collusion should be a reason to overturn a trade, could you tell me how you prove collusion if neither of the traders admits to it?

 
My Hope Street Alias said:
I'm curious, what exactly do you use to determine that a trade is "lopsided"? :confused: Are you guys so full of yourself that you absolutely know that one guy is better than another and it won't change?

Things change fast in the NFL. A trade that looks like it has a clear winner today doesn't necessarily mean it will look that way a couple weeks down the road.

Team owners should be free to manage their team as they see fit. End of story.

This board needs a "Unfair Trade" forum to eliminate these reoccuring threads from pool. Then all you "know-it-alls" can hang out there and amaze each other with how much you know.

:2cents:
Thank you for being excellent to those who disagree with you. Read and learn from SSOG as quoted in my sig.
worst sig ever
I'm sort of partial to it. ;)
 
We will sometimes make a lot of fun of the player making the bad trades especially at parties and will even go so far as to e-mail him about the bad trades but if you have league rules then you have a follow them about trades and sometimes you can even go too far with stiff e-mails because it is conduct detrimental to the league which could lead to a commissioner slap down in the form of a message on the league site about your aberant behavior. So be careful no matter what you do.

 
Oct 19, 2004

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I Traded away Keenan McCardell (WR 50+) & Muhsin Muhammed (WR 41)

Received Michael Pittman (RB 29) & Baltimore Defense (DEF 1)

This was a highly controversial trade. Who got the better part of this trade? I'll tell you who. The guy who received Muhsin as he went on a TEAR after I traded him and finished the season as WR 1. And the owner won the league.

Vetoing a trade is a direct disregard against the opinion of the two owners who are trading. Nobody has a crystal ball. Its far too easy for owners to hide behind a "veto" when two adults are trading.

Anybody with the ego to veto a trade because they think they DO have a crystal ball should put their money where their mouth is. Real simple...at the end of the season, the vetoed trade is added up points for points. Anybody who vetoed a trade and botched the call owes the owner $100. No excuses, injuries included.

If the vetoing owners are correct, then the veto was a solid decision. If they are wrong, then frankly they could have cost an owner a championship, as you saw above. The money will make them think long and hard about the confidence they have in vetoing a trade!

 
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My league protects the stupid by disallowing uneven trades. It's the only way to maintain the competitive integrity of the league. ALL trades must be unanimously regarded as fair, one vote against the trade and it's disallowed.

We also vote on each pick of the draft, if someone is reaching too far for a player and a majority rules that it's too big of a reach, the pick is vetoed. If a player of high standing is left on the draft board 5 picks after where he should have been taken, he's automatically awarded to the next GM to pick.

We have a similar voting process in place to keep waiver pickups fair for everyone, but that's not what this thread is about.

But then, my league is super competitive. First place is usually 7-5, last is 5-7. It's awesome.
:thumbup: This is a joke, right? :lmao:

 
My league protects the stupid by disallowing uneven trades. It's the only way to maintain the competitive integrity of the league. ALL trades must be unanimously regarded as fair, one vote against the trade and it's disallowed.

We also vote on each pick of the draft, if someone is reaching too far for a player and a majority rules that it's too big of a reach, the pick is vetoed. If a player of high standing is left on the draft board 5 picks after where he should have been taken, he's automatically awarded to the next GM to pick.

We have a similar voting process in place to keep waiver pickups fair for everyone, but that's not what this thread is about.

But then, my league is super competitive. runs our teams for us, making sure that we all stay mediocre based on group-think or the opinions of a vocally strong minority. First place is usually 7-5, last is 5-7. It's awesome.
:excited: This is a joke, right? :unsure:
It's all good. I fixed it.
 
My league protects the stupid by disallowing uneven trades. It's the only way to maintain the competitive integrity of the league. ALL trades must be unanimously regarded as fair, one vote against the trade and it's disallowed.

We also vote on each pick of the draft, if someone is reaching too far for a player and a majority rules that it's too big of a reach, the pick is vetoed. If a player of high standing is left on the draft board 5 picks after where he should have been taken, he's automatically awarded to the next GM to pick.

We have a similar voting process in place to keep waiver pickups fair for everyone, but that's not what this thread is about.

But then, my league is super competitive. First place is usually 7-5, last is 5-7. It's awesome.
:thumbdown: This is a joke, right? :thumbup:
I'm glad somebody's sarcasm detector is functional :bag:
 

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