Trade limitations?

[JHouly]

I'm curious...

Does your fantasy league offers a trade limitation?

A number of trades with other ?

Examples:

10 trades per owner in a year?

or

only 1 trade is accepted between two owners per season.

We are contemplating this option in our league and I would like to have your input on that subject.

Thanks!

[Shoeless]

Why?

[Daydream Nation]

We do 25 trade limit per year.

Why? This is the 3rd year for the league and it was the initial rule in place when the league formed. We voted on it this past offseason to make it unlimited and the league chose to keep it at 25. There is currently only 1 owner who will reach the 25 trade limit and I most don't feel like giving in to his non-stop trading desires. I'm a draft-and-hold sort of guy so 25 are plenty for me.

[JHouly]

25 trades, interesting.

We are 24 in our league. By letting one trade between two owners we will have 23 trades possible.

The co-comish seems to want to propose that option to our guys.

[horrorfan]

Like Shoeless, I still don't understand why you want to limit it?

I've never been in a league with a trade limitation. Why would you want to limit how you manage your team? Whether it's 5, 10 or 25, it's a restriction on what you can do. Your example of one trade between the same owners doesn't make sense at all. What if one owner is your ideal trading partner at a specific point in the season?

Why is more than x amount of trades a bad thing?

Some restrictions make sense to me, like a maximum number of games per positional slot, as it keeps everyone on a level playing field. But limiting trades?

[Joe13]

I think that while it does add another level of strategy, it hurts more than it helps. Personally, I don't think I've ever traded less than half of my roster in a season. What does make sense is limiting free agent pickups. If you want to improve your roster, you should trade.

[MXHockey]

Limiting trades, makes no sense

[JHouly]

Thanks for your comments.

[horrorfan]

Thanks for your comments.

No problem. However, since you asked I am curious on why is this being considered?

[pmorrow]

Not much benefit to having a trade limit unless there's a strict add/drop limit as well and you want to prevent people making lots of trade agreements to sort of "circumvent" the add drop limits. But trades are fun and usually hard to put together, so I don't like limiting that personally. Generally speaking, unless you have a very good reason to put a limit on trades, might as well not have one at all.

[sourdough]

We have unlimited trades but we also charge money per trade

[MXHockey]

We have unlimited trades but we also charge money per trade

That must make for even fewer trades?

[newfcollins]

I joined a league a few years back that had very deep rosters and a limit of 10 trades. At some point, there was a flurry of trades, and the commish stepped in and brought the number of trades down to five in that season without any warning. Apparently, he was a big believer that hockey pool teams should build through the draft. The problem is in a very deep league, it would take forever for a bad team to get good if they have to build through the draft.

Anyways, I left that league a week or two later because of the commish changing the rules halfway through the season because of the way he wanted it to run.

It was also a dull league. Few trades means that there's not much to do except for roster management.

[JHouly]

interesting...

Our commish are talking about proposing to the owners one trade between two owners possible in a year.

We are 24 teams so it will give a max of 23 trades in a season for each owner.

[horrorfan]

interesting...

Our commish are talking about proposing to the owners one trade between two owners possible in a year.

We are 24 teams so it will give a max of 23 trades in a season for each owner.

Why? What if two managers are ideal trading partners at more than one time in the season? Why should they be restricted?