FFPC
Triflex Best Ball
This trade went down yesterday morning:
Team A received: Jonathan Taylor, 1.04
Team B received: Dalvin Cook, David Montgomery, '24 R2
The team that got JT and the 1.04 makes trades like this ALL THE TIME in this league. I don't know how. It's maddening, because the values here aren't even close. (The owner of this team has a large Twitter following and tweeted the trade details, and nearly every response was some version of "WTF?")
Another owner in the league went nuts and posted three times on the message board that the trade was basically BS. He urged others to email FFPC and protest the trade. (I chimed in on the message board that I thought the trade was severely lopsided but I didn't email to FFPC to protest.) In any case, FFPC received three protest emails. The commish said they use DLF's trade calculator, and if one side is greater than the other by more than a 2-to-1 margin, they reverse the trade. This one was 2.54-to-1, so they overturned it.
I've been in multiple FFPC dynasty leagues for years and have never seen a trade overturned before. I tend to believe that owners are free to run their teams as they see fit, and that includes making horrible trades. But in local leagues where I'm commissioner, I can also elect to replace those owners who hurt the league with repeated imbalanced trades. In FFPC, that's likely not an option. I'm not a huge fan of overturning trades, but, at the same time, this one immediately had me looking at my options for ditching this league, so I can't say I'm disappointed to see it overturned.