Hello All,
I think it's about time this league lives up to it's billing of emulating Major League Baseball.
Year after year, other team's trades get veto'd and $hit on, while the self-appointed trade police pass each other's trades with flying colors...not a coincidence at all.
They all vote to allow their own trades and $hit all over everyone else's deals. Let's not even go into the most farcical trade ever allowed in any league, in which entire teams, minor league rosters, international monies, millions of cap-dollars and entire rosters and all draft-picks of every team in the trade, were exchanged, Somehow, it was allowed to happen.
And those same people $hit all over eeeeeeevery little detail of everyone else's trades, which have been posted by anyone else, ever since then. What an insult that it's allowed to happen year after year.
Ever since "YahooLando" left, the league has turned into an aristocracy. The rich get richer and everyone else is only here to fill in the league roster. Very few people want to wait years to develop a team they way they want to and without trades, all there is is the draft and free agency, which is limited to a few quality players before the season and not much else once the season begins.
No coincidence that most of the new team managers added each year after veteran owners leave, are rookies on the website. Better that they don't understand what should and should not be allowed.
It's a joke. "Yahoo" designed an awesome format, but since he's left, it's been run downhill ever since, by a small group of people who decide all the trades to their own satisfaction and not those trying to improve their teams in their own way.
Year after year, it gets worse and worse, outright and blatant manipulation, changing the scoring and the rules and dumping on other's trades, to fit personal agendas.
There are plenty of good and honest people who still play in this league, and a bunch of others who have come and gone. But there is a certain "click" in this league, who stick together and approve all their own trades and veto everyone else's, backed up by their own factual opinion.
In a league this big, there shouldn't be a small group who have so much influence on other people's teams. And every year it get's worse. Maybe no one else has the balls to say it, but I do.
Let people manage their own teams as they wish. There are very few trades which, if allowed, would alter the "integrity of the league" or upset the balance of it.
Any veto must provide a detailed, factually based basis for that veto. Reasons for a veto would include but are not limited to factors such as statistical comparison, contract status, age, injury history, talent level, organizational makeup, past trade history, and/or collusion.
There are too many allowable objections to trades. All of those items listed are open to personal interpretation. Major League teams make trades all the time which are not, on the surface, "equal" in all of those categories listed above.
Billy Beane has had a very successful career out of making such trades and by using his own personal evaluation methods based on his own thinking, outside of the box, with what the rest of the league would do.
Trades cannot truly be evaluated until years later and everyone has their own opinion, but it is only an opinion. I understand that voting on a posted trade is necessary, but being so hyper critical is not.
What should "organizational make-up" have to do with anything regarding a trade?How is anyone supposed to change their organizational make-up. if all trades must be composed of players with "equal statistics, age, and contract status"? How are the teams with less volume of talent supposed to improve their teams otherwise?
By drafting rookies and waiting years for them to develop? Not many people want to wait years to have even a chance of competing to win in a fantasy sports league. Especially considering that so many teams in this league are in such bad shape talent-wise and with a limited budget, and are then vacated, partially because they know most of their trades will be disallowed, after they have been dissected by the league "experts".
"Any new owner that has a trade vetoed within the first 30 days of ownership will be required to post players on the trade block for a period of 48 hours before any trade can be posted."?
And what is the value in this rule, other than to allow the habitual "veto'ers" to pick over another team's trade pieces in advance, so they can then prepare an argument for why the next trade should be disallowed?
Sounds more like a self-fulfilling prophecy than anything legitimate for league purposes.
These trade rules only benefit the "haves" and only serve as a detriment to the "have not's".
