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    For those who don't always frequent the main site, I'm posting here to let you know I've put together at two part piece on 10 tips for winning fantasy hockey trades. Here's a link to part one, which includes the first five tips: http://www.dobberhockey.com/hockey-h...hockey-league/

    Let's hear what you think of the first five. Note that as I said in the column it was a challenge to write a trading tips piece that's truly applicable to everyone, so I tried to stick with things that would benefit the most possible readers while still also hopefully making them tips worth reading. Do you think there were good lessons here?

    And of course feel free to offer some tips of your own. I've already got the next five written, but I won't spoil them here. They'll wait until next week's part two.
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    A couple of thoughts on buying low and selling high. Which I understand you dismissed. I rarely see someone sell low. Instead they either hold because they continue to believe or they outright drop the player. Every year I pick up good players that are dropped. This past year in baseball both Chris Archer and Freddie Freeman come to mind. Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Schneider last winter. Most lack the patience to sit out the sell low.

    Sell high, I have seen and done but an interesting twist is the buy high. The other owner is desperate to sell high on a player that you think might sustain his pace and he'll take almost anything in return. Again in baseball, a few years back in his big year I got Chris Davis for Rafael Betancourt (a closer at the time) and recent callup Tony Cingrani.

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    Quote Originally Posted by duntroon68 View Post
    A couple of thoughts on buying low and selling high. Which I understand you dismissed. I rarely see someone sell low. Instead they either hold because they continue to believe or they outright drop the player. Every year I pick up good players that are dropped. This past year in baseball both Chris Archer and Freddie Freeman come to mind. Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Schneider last winter. Most lack the patience to sit out the sell low.

    Sell high, I have seen and done but an interesting twist is the buy high. The other owner is desperate to sell high on a player that you think might sustain his pace and he'll take almost anything in return. Again in baseball, a few years back in his big year I got Chris Davis for Rafael Betancourt (a closer at the time) and recent callup Tony Cingrani.
    Thanks for the thoughts, and I'm definitely on board with folks being unwilling to sell low. Stubbornness, fear, and/or denial usually stand in the way of that.
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    And of course the other problem is that if they are willing to sell than I usually don't want the guy either. Or they will sell but at full price.

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    Quote Originally Posted by duntroon68 View Post
    And of course the other problem is that if they are willing to sell than I usually don't want the guy either. Or they will sell but at full price.
    Totally true - it's an annoying reality of fantasy hockey trading.
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    Click here to read my weekly "Roos Lets Loose" columns, going live every Wednesday morning and consisting of a rotating schedule of a "forum buzz" column, a fantasy hockey mailbag, a tournament/poll, and an edition of Goldipucks and the Three Skaters: https://dobberhockey.com/category/ho...key-rick-roos/

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    Part 2 of my trading tips article is now live: http://www.dobberhockey.com/hockey-h...ague-part-two/
    DobberHockey Senior Writer (columnist since 2012)
    Click here to read my weekly "Roos Lets Loose" columns, going live every Wednesday morning and consisting of a rotating schedule of a "forum buzz" column, a fantasy hockey mailbag, a tournament/poll, and an edition of Goldipucks and the Three Skaters: https://dobberhockey.com/category/ho...key-rick-roos/

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