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Fantasy Leagues => Franchise GM: History Books => Franchise GM => MLB Leagues => Franchise GM: GM & Team News => Topic started by: MillerTime on October 19, 2010, 01:46:25 PM
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Allowed or not? Also, if not why?
Just curious.
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We are not allowed. Reason is in real life, MLB does not allow trading of picks.
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I think it hurts for two reasons.
1) Draft picks are valuable pieces for weaker teams, especially in trades.
2) Sometimes a pick can be the little extra a deal needs in order to get completed, where players get more complicated.
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In real baseball I understand, but if in fantasy baseball a manager chooses to go all in for this year and deal the draft picks that should be his/her choice. The other end of this is for lower Cap teams, adding draft picks is a good way to accrue young, cheap talent.
This is a limiting rule and sometimes being different from MLB makes sense.
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We also have Dynasty MLB Elite for a reall MLB replica
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I think that we should be able to trade draft picks. After all this is fantasy baseball, not real baseball. I agree that it does hurt the small market teams.
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I have already had a trade fall through due to the restriction. But because everyone is agreeing thus far, I will stop replying, haha
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I understand. I think trading the picks are an advantage for smaller teams to restock there team. I agree with you chris (both of them)
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This is league is far more of a replica of mlb than dynasty elite.
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This is league is far more of a replica of mlb than dynasty elite.
Dynasty MLB Elite fails to represent MLB in one key aspect - financial disparity, as all teams have a $100m cap.
We have already ruled that draft picks cannot be trading going forward. This goes with MLB unlike our cap hits, but at least we can argue that our cap hits could have been inherent within the style of the contract.
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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/380347-why-cant-mlb-teams-trade-draft-picks (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/380347-why-cant-mlb-teams-trade-draft-picks)
summed up beautifully
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Until the day that MLB changes it rules our rule won't change. We decided last year not to allow trading draft picks anymore. If you want to add young talent, trade a player that is about to become expensive to a team that can afford him. The same way that real ife GMs do it. It has also been proven (by Rob) that small market teams can succeed in the right hands. Plus we also have a team salary structure in place that rewards success. So therefore if you run small market team that does well, your budget will increase, making it more likely for you to keep your players. If you are a large market team that stinks, then the fat contracts that are handed out will drag your team down. Just because someone has a large contract doesn't mean that they are worth it. It is unfortunate that some ball clubs were run by lesser and now departed GMs, and someone is left to pick up the pieces, but then I guess you can feel empathy for who ever takes over for Jim Hendry.
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Very nice Dan. Jim Hendry has created a mess haha.
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That is cool, I respect the rules set. I must have missed the initial discussion.
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That is cool, I respect the rules set. I must have missed the initial discussion.
Jeez Rob, you had to go and make Dan go all wet blanket on everyone. :koolaid:
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Until the day that MLB changes it rules our rule won't change. We decided last year not to allow trading draft picks anymore. If you want to add young talent, trade a player that is about to become expensive to a team that can afford him. The same way that real ife GMs do it. It has also been proven (by Rob) that small market teams can succeed in the right hands. Plus we also have a team salary structure in place that rewards success. So therefore if you run small market team that does well, your budget will increase, making it more likely for you to keep your players. If you are a large market team that stinks, then the fat contracts that are handed out will drag your team down. Just because someone has a large contract doesn't mean that they are worth it. It is unfortunate that some ball clubs were run by lesser and now departed GMs, and someone is left to pick up the pieces, but then I guess you can feel empathy for who ever takes over for Jim Hendry.
there is so much wrong with this that I won't begin...