Is week 5 too early to give up and trade for keepers? That’s about the only way trading Cooper Kupp for Henry Ruggs and Sam Darnold makes sense at all.
Well, Week 6 really - he’s going to lose this week too. I’m the beneficiary of the trade, but I think a trade for keepers is always fair game, it’s the nature of keeper leagues.
For you, never too early.
Edit: Actually, as a serious question, I don’t think this league has any sort of guidelines for tanking/giving up early, but it can be destabilizing if one team gives up a big non-keeper piece for a smaller keeper piece. Since you’re 3-2 currently I’m not sure if that was a sarcastic question or real.
Real question, just not about my team. I saw the Kupp for Ruggs and Darnold trade when I checked scores and the keeper value is the only reason it could have made any sense, and even then, it’s still horribly one-sided.
Oh I didn’t see the trade. I thought you were asking as a hypothetical.
Has this league had lopsided trades like that before? Having the best team in the league get significantly better without significant costs doesn’t feel great, nor really does tanking from week 5, but I don’t think there’s any sort of rule about it unless this has been discussed before.
Wait, if we trade keepers we get to keep that player the next year? I guess I’ve never done a trade on this league before.
Yes - the keeper eligibility remains the same, as long as there was eligibility to begin with.
Giving up in week 6 is bad form, even if you are 0-5. And it is hard to fathom this trade as anything other than giving up for this year. Shame on our defending champion.
I’m pretty sure we’ve had trades like this before, but I don’t think one’s happened this early.
I accidentally picked up Darrel Williams (KC) when I meant to pick up Damien Williams (Chi) after Montgomery went down. I didn’t drop him because I’m desperate enough that I need any RB I can get on my roster, and ended up lucking out when he became one of the big waiver wire targets this week.
My team is just Josh Allen, Jonathan Taylor, Occasional Adam Thielen and Some Other People at this point. But it’s working - I’m only 7 points off the overall top score. I don’t think that can continue with the bye weeks though; my bench players are pretty awful and most of my starters aren’t very good either.
Big matchup this week between filthy, depraved second place Carcosa Yellow Kings and glorious, beloved first place Exploding Pancakes.
All hail the filthy masses!
One, two, Big Mack Attack’s coming for you.
Somehow, I’m 4-2 despite being last in team scoring. Clutch defense bay-bee!
And now I get to play Hermits on the Steelers bye week…
The forces of goodness and sex appeal and cheesecake have prevailed and noble Exploding Pancakes remains atop the standings at 6-1. Close game and a really annoying loss for Carcosa - he got the 3rd highest score in the league and still lost.
Damn, my 6-1 team lost to a 1-6 team. This let Big Mac Attack catch up to me in record and now he’s the #1 seed because he is 100 points ahead of everyone else which is really impressive.
What an incredibly depressed week of scoring. Hamlet’s 135 is really impressive.
I did it all on the back on Derrick Henry. Now, let’s see what he’s projected to score this week…
I have 3 important players and an important backup on bye this week and I got hit by the Johnathan Taylor train, it looks like it’s going to be two losses in a row for me.