Looking at the rules, look at the part in red, as I believe they are in play here:
Trades
Any two or more teams may trade players between the end of the regular season and July 31st. When an agreement is made, the proposed trade must be posted under the Transaction board, with all parties involved posting a reply stating that said trade has been accepted. A short explanation of the reasoning behind the trade for each team involved also needs to accompany the post.
Any free agent signed in the offseason may not be traded before June 15th of the following season.
Picks from the Amateur Drafts may be traded.Cash for the current season may be traded.
If the trade is during the off-season, then cash may be traded for the upcoming season. Cash for future seasons may also be traded if the amount is no greater than the salaries of the players involved.
All players involved must be named at the time of the trade announcement. Players may NOT be named later.Note
Players are not allowed to be named later, unlike MLB, in order to prevent potential issues regarding what type of player was agreed upon for the PTBNL.
The trade will be disallowed if it puts any of the teams above the salary cap, or over the roster limit, unless there is an accompanying transaction that will correct this. The trade must explicitly state the accompanying transaction in order for the trade to be valid. All trades that are legal will be reviewed by the League for integrity. There is a 48-hour period to review, with the countdown beginning when the information is forwarded to the committee.
The commissioner will be in charge of ruling on each trade. He will thoroughly and carefully look
through every trade and consider every angle while reviewing a trade. There are guidelines as
well.
1. Any league member can comment and review a trade as well, posting all thoughts (by
members only), which will be taken into consideration while reviewing a trade. Any postings on
trades will be considered when picking active members for inpoints.
2. 48 hours after both parties have accepted the trade and the trade has been approved, it will
pass.
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3. If a trade is questioned for the right reasons that 48 hour clock will extend to 72 hours.
Vetoes require an explanation. Approvals do not; it is assumed an approval means an
agreement with the reasoning posted by the organizations involved.
4. If a decision is made by the commissioner and 3 members or more (not including the
members involved in the trade) disagree with the ruling, it will be overruled.
5. If for any reason a trade sits for 72 hours and no negative comments or vetoes were made in
the post, then the trade passes.
6. Any trade that violates any part of the league constitution will be automatically vetoed.
As I read the rules, it isn't clear to me that picks may be traded for cash. Lande, as commissioner, seems to me you need to make a ruling on that. Personally, I don't like trading cash for picks, and don't think there's any other league that allows it to be done.
Reading you approval, I'm assuming you are allowing it. However, since it's now off-season, doesn't the cash come from next years' funds?
Based on that alone,
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