Trade deadlines

Should always have a trade dealine if you ask me. 3-4 weeks before final week of regular season. Want to try to allow trades as long as teams have something to play for. Once it's becoming clear people aren't making the playoffs should be around when trade deadline is set.

If you're keeping a lot of players from year to year, I don't think a trade deadline is a necessity. I know a lot here will probably disagree with me

In my leagues it's week 11 (3 weeks prior). If a team is mathematically eliminated before week 10 (rule in place b/c it happened once and they tried to trade w/ their brother) then that team would not be allowed to trade once eliminated.

For my keeper league, we open trading up the day after the final playoff game. We also do not allow for future trades (player for draft pick...) bc no one wants to keep up with that shite.

We're still trying to work this out in my six years keepers League. Every time this time of the year there's a "crazy" trade that brings back the deadline discussion and we always decide that we'll leave it as is, and there's always a vote on trades.

Yesterday for example L Bell was traded to a non contender for D. Johnson+Cooper+Eifert. That trade is fair for the two owners, but it really fricks with the other three teams in the semi finals.

(Bell has keeper value of 25 in that league - 200 budget - which is insane and gives him a great head start for next year, Johnson/Cooper/Eifert probably won't be kept because they have very very high keeper value).


I can see both sides of this.