Ideas for Getting Our League to Trade More? (1 Viewer)

[Blue Meanie]

Getting some pushback from my league owners that post-draft our league is a bit stale. We have maybe 3 trades per year, trying to spice things up a bit.

We go 15 rounds, start 1QB, 2RBs/2WR/TEs, 1 K & 1 DEF. We are a pseudo-Keeper league in that you can keep up to 2 players each year - they count as the Draft Round that is 4 rounds earlier/lower than where they were drafted in year prior (eg: Jamaal Charles drafted in 8th last year, so is a 4th ROund Keeper this). Trades are free.

Some ideas floating around are to draft more than 15 rounds (to take more decent players off the waiver wire during bye weeks to force trading), start 2 QBs instead of 1, start a mandatory TE, start 2 DEF instead of 1, 3 RBs instead of 2, etc...

Any thoughts? IDeas? Suggestions? Thanks all!

 

[gerome]

Our league is also in 10th year, but is very active in trades.

14 teams with 15 round draft. Starting roster is 1QB, 1RB, 2WR, 1TE, 1Flex, 1DST, 1K

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Not sure if you can make it a rule, but if not "suggest" or ask that when someone gets a trade offer, they make at least one counter offer.

 

[shortbow]

Kind of unrelated, but in all of my local leagues we went to a mandatory start two TE league and one of the unintended effect was that it increased trade rates.

10 team league btw, start 1 QB, 2 RB, 1 RB/WR, 3 WR, 2 TE, 1 D/st, 1 K

 

[Anonymous Internet User]

trading is a function of need. increase starting roster size and decrease bench size. add a transaction limit for waivers. increase waiver time to 4 weeks (i.e. - dropped players cannot be claimed for 4 weeks). that will force people to trade.

 

[Banger]

expand your keeper roster limit, we added a rookie spot a couple years ago to add a dynasty aspect to the keeper league which spurs a lot of trading in the season and the offseason, we don't reset our waivers each week so teams can sit atop the waiver wire and trade waiver wire spots

 

[Donsmith753]

Disincentivise holding the same player for a long period of time. Maybe some method of a % of your roster starts losing points the longer you hold them e.g a player you've kept only scores 95% of what he would have using normal scoring. It'd be difficult to track but would force owners to move players.

 

[Dez]

Invite a couple guys from my dynasty league to yours.

35 trades made so far for this year.

 

[Detroit Revival]

I'm in a 16 team keeper league. This is how we move player around. We have a rule that you can't keep the same two players more than one year in a row. This means that as the end of the season nears you have owners that aren't in the playoffs trying to get keepers for next year and other owners that must trade away a keeper that they can't keep the next year to possibly get value from them. We see some big trades go down. This might help your league.

 

[QuizGuy66]

If they are motivated by $, make trades cost $ (but less $ than free-agents.

If they are cheap bastages then make the trades free

-QG

 

[ninerlover]

Perhaps you may need to get more owners involved in addressing this issue. If you can get the owners who said that the league is getting stale, you would have an easier time however you decide to go forward. And in that case you would easily be able to make changes. Ever consider shaking things up completely and moving to a different format? My league loves the auction format, but there were great suggestions in the previous posts. Lastly, maybe you can bring in new owners for some fresh ideas. Good luck!

 

[Genester]

Here's a variety of things you can consider:

1. Shorten rosters.

2. Allow multiple starting line-up possibilities - I.e. 2QB, 4WR, etc.

3. Replace inactive owners with active ones.

4. Provide trade incentives (e.g. If you're using real or fake money for blind bidding and salary cap, add a $ to each team for each trade). A version of this also is to create a cost for all pick-ups, free agent or otherwise, but no cost for trades.

5. Remove IR, if you have it.

6. Penalize team for starting players on a bye (through a loss of tie-breakers, for example).

Some of these may not work for your league, either practically or philosophically - just pick the ones you can live with.

 

[Warhogs]

I would consider making waiver claims during the season extremely limited. Maybe allow 2 or 3 claims during the season. You may need to increase roster size a bit to make this work. This will prevent the teams just picking up bye week fillers. I think a team would really have to trade to manage their roster.

 

[bengalbuck]

This may not do much for a league where you're only keeping 2 guys, but you can limit the number of years a guy can be on your roster. For example, in one dynasty league I'm in if a guy is on your roster for 3 years, the summer before the 4th year he goes into the supplemental draft pool if you don't trade him. This obviously will drive a ton of trading.