League Powers: No Trade Deadline (Should a commish set one at this poi (1 Viewer)

[kylechoffman]

I am a team owner in a league where the commish (not me) just changed the league rules tonight because he did not set a trade deadline prior to the season so we do not have one in place and a trade was accepted. He scrambled, veto'd the trade (we have majority ownership trade rules in place so the commish only has the power to vote once out of ten teams) and changed the rules by backdating the trade deadline to last week.

The league is a 2 keeper league where all teams must keep two players each season and there is no restriction on how long you can keep players. Team A (still in the playoffs) offered L Bell, langford and two sub-standard wrs to a Team B (out of the playoffs) for martin, ivory, cobb and decker. Team B also has luck, dez, forte, amendola, big ben and eifert in terms of keeper options. Team A loses its best keeper option by far but gets upgrades for the playoffs. The difference in projections of the four players acquired by Team A over their current starters is only 3.8 points so if the trade was processed, they could lose this week and lose their best keeper. They could also win and move on but that is the chance taken by the trade. As far as the trade is concerned, the eye test screams huge upgrade for Team A but in reality Team B gets an upgrade for next season.

Trades should not be happening during the playoffs but given the situation that no trade deadline was in place, should this trade or others be allowed to be reviewed by owners and put to a vote with a very large lesson learned for our commish to "do his job" prior to next season and others in terms of confirming the rules are in place?

Appreciate input on this.

 

[elshagon]

Was a trade deadline discussed previously? Did he just forget to set the rule? Was there a trade deadline in previous years? If the answer is no to all three questions than I would be inclined to let the trade go and fix it next year.

 

[Ladsud]

Common sense rule says there are no trades week 15. But with no rule in place, common sense seems to have already been thrown out the window.

 

[kylechoffman]

Good point on the previous years. We did have a deadline around Thanksgiving usually. Our league is copied annually so not sure why it wasnt set but it is never discussed.

 

[Ladsud]

If the deadline was in place every year, then go with whatever the deadline was and veto that trade. Precedent has been set if its a steady league with the same members.

 

[elshagon]

Since the deadline was in place in previous years then the trade should not go through. I would argue it was the intent to carry over the previous years trade deadline and for whatever reason the setting didn't get enabled.

 

[kylechoffman]

Thanks for the input.

 

[parasaurolophus]

same thing happened in my league. Trade deadline had always been thanksgiving day, which I believe is a custom setting. Commish simply forgot to set it.

Common sense absolutely dictates that there are no trades during playoffs. Those two knuckleheads should have known better.