It’s only a disincentive if there’s a sizable number of people doing the work you describe. Today, it seems pretty much you’re the only one putting in that work. Were I in your shoes I’d be pretty against the proposal too, since you’re being handsomely rewarded for the extra effort. But as far as everyone else goes, the number if trade proposals is close to zero so I’m not sure you can further disincentive things from there.
I think this is a pretty absurd hypothetical. If your division rivals are overbidding to block your trades that basically means they are taking a net loss and making their teams worse. This should be catnip for you. What I think you’re actually worried about is your division rivals watching your action and driving up the price to something closer to equitable.
We could suspend the rule easily enough mid-draft. But with everyone monitoring the thread during that time a short window like 6 hours (which is less time than we wait between picks before skipping someone) wouldn’t be especially disruptive.
Overall, I don’t buy the argument that more open discussion about available players and proposed trade offers would discourage trades. In fact I think the general silence on the topic is what actually causes our league to be so trade averse in general. Certainly you’re the outlier here, so I understand where your POV on this is different.
Honestly, I don’t think enforcing a rule like this should be necessary. I think it’s in everyone’s best interest to contribute to these threads more during the season and to talk more openly about players you want or players you’re shopping. It wouldn’t take any rule changes for most of the league to simply develop a habit of floating trade rumors before accepting anything. You’ll almost certainly get more for your buck if you do. It’s what NFL GMs do when the leak rumors to the press after all. Trades being some cloak and dagger exercise is far from the norm IRL and in most other fantasy leagues.
I think that’s a really cool idea.
Trading, I think, is my favorite part of fantasy. The haggling, crunching the numbers, examining the angles, and ultimately weighing reason versus passion and making a call. Anything that enhances the activity is aces in my book.
I like the idea, but since it’s the middle of the season and it is a clear change from the existing rules, I think there should have to be a two-thirds majority of votes in favor to change the rule.
Ugh, Dak is going to be a game time decision for a Sunday night game. I guess I have to start Taylor Heinicke rather than risk it, at least Washington is a 4 PM ET game so maybe they’ll be an early leak about Dak.
I don’t like in-season rule changes. Revisiting the trade rules in the off-season is fine, and I’m not convinced either way on what side I would take regarding posting the trades. But again, vote shouldn’t occur until the end of the season.
I was out very late last night and just realized Calvin Ridley is out with another ‘personal issue. What the hell is going on? At least it was announced way in advance for the London game two weeks ago.
Josh Allen, most rushing TDs in a QB’s first 50 games, very nice.
Deebo Samuel, you are still a treasure with another 171 yards.
Kyle Pitts, very disappointed you gave me nothing after 163 last week.
Allen Robinson, it’s time for a prison break.
OBJ… I really hope they trade you to a team that you might, somehow, decide to be good again for, but most likely I will end up wasting a roster slot on you for another year until I cut you when you suck on your new team.
Close game with Omni, who would’ve thought that Justin Fields could score in the 20s?
Dak Prescott is out for tonight so I made the right choice by starting Heinicke. Even with the goose egg from Calvin Ridley, Yahoo still says I’ve got a 71% of getting a badly needed win.
I don’t know why, but yahoo consistently massively overrates the possibility of a player ending with a negative score in its win predictions. I have a 5 point lead on Omni with Damien Williams still to play. What are the odds that Damien Williams ends up with -5 points? Almost none, well under 1%. But yahoo gives Omni a 5% chance to win even though Willams having a massive negative score is his only chance. I faced the same situation either last week or a couple of weeks ago. I’m not sure what makes it do this when the chance to win mechanism otherwise generally makes sense.
Very likely. I haven’t gone through all the years yet, but in 2018 Petey beat you 76.93 - 56.90, so you just squeaked in with the record unless there’s another lower one out there.
OK, I can’t promise I didn’t miss one, but I checked back through all the seasons. A few others beat out your 75.60, but you do hold the record after winning with a ridiculous 63.97 in 2011:
That was such a lucky win, Dale, since you were the 11th worst score this week and played the only person you could beat. RNATB won and I won too. It’s a tough race for the sunbelt division.
Denver has actually been the #4 defense this year (despite being awful the only time I saw them, last week) but traded away Von Miller today and I can’t imagine that’s good for their D/ST scoring.
Dallas has been surprisingly good at fantasy scoring too, as the 10th DST, even though they seem like they give up a ton of points. I looked and I guess they’re actually average on points given up.