Online League Trading

Smed · 11-23-2017, 03:07 PM

I'm setting up a casual online league with some friends, including a mix of human-controlled and AI teams. In other online leagues I've played in, trade requests were processed by the commissioner, which made sense.

In a league that includes AI teams, where the commissioner is also a player, is it possible to allow players to submit trade requests individually without giving everyone commissioner access?

Bluenoser · 11-23-2017, 06:31 PM

Only the Commish (or anyone who can log in as Commish) can process a trade. However, once a trade is processed, a new copy of the league file must be made available to all - that is the copy with the processed trade.

This is why it is best for just the Commish (or 1 person) to handle trades, and that person to upload a new file for others to download after. If even one person has a different file, you will have a problem with imports/line up changes not taking affect with your imports.

Smed · 11-23-2017, 09:59 PM

So, for a league where the commissioner is also an owner, there's no way to propose a trade to an AI team without the commissioner seeing the offer, even if that offer is rejected?

jmknpk2 · 12-01-2017, 01:28 AM

One solution would be for the human owner who is also commissioner have two "managers" in the game. One might be called George Steinbrener (owner of the yankees), the other Albert Doubleday (commissioner of the league). That way, the human owner would only see what he should see (when he is logged into the game as such). That human/commissioner would only see commissioner stuff when he is performing duties as the commissioner. But whenever he is logged in as commissioner, he'd still see everything.

An even better way would be to find a friend willing to act only as commissioner without playing in the league. That person would take care of all the commissioner duties. That might not be so easy to find, because most people interested in an online league also want to be playing in the league (as owner).

Maybe a wife, who could be rewarded for her effort in other ways (jewelry?).

Or a fantasy football friend who doesn't care about baseball, but would like a reciprocal favor of assistance running his fantasy football league.

NoOne · 12-03-2017, 02:31 AM

coordinate with a "sister-league"

comish is supposed to be able to maintain partiality for these things... most don't do so well with that task... at least it's just a video game.

if you get 2 possible trades that require additional input / choice, that would just add a 2nd part to the process... make house-rule trade submission deadline a couple days before you sim the league so that you always have enough time.

11-23-2017, 03:07 PM	#1
Smed Bat Boy Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 7	Online League Trading I'm setting up a casual online league with some friends, including a mix of human-controlled and AI teams. In other online leagues I've played in, trade requests were processed by the commissioner, which made sense. In a league that includes AI teams, where the commissioner is also a player, is it possible to allow players to submit trade requests individually without giving everyone commissioner access?

12-01-2017, 01:28 AM	#4
jmknpk2 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 982	One solution would be for the human owner who is also commissioner have two "managers" in the game. One might be called George Steinbrener (owner of the yankees), the other Albert Doubleday (commissioner of the league). That way, the human owner would only see what he should see (when he is logged into the game as such). That human/commissioner would only see commissioner stuff when he is performing duties as the commissioner. But whenever he is logged in as commissioner, he'd still see everything. An even better way would be to find a friend willing to act only as commissioner without playing in the league. That person would take care of all the commissioner duties. That might not be so easy to find, because most people interested in an online league also want to be playing in the league (as owner). Maybe a wife, who could be rewarded for her effort in other ways (jewelry?). Or a fantasy football friend who doesn't care about baseball, but would like a reciprocal favor of assistance running his fantasy football league. Last edited by jmknpk2; 12-01-2017 at 01:29 AM.

11-23-2017, 06:31 PM	#2
Bluenoser Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In The Moment Posts: 14,224	Only the Commish (or anyone who can log in as Commish) can process a trade. However, once a trade is processed, a new copy of the league file must be made available to all - that is the copy with the processed trade. This is why it is best for just the Commish (or 1 person) to handle trades, and that person to upload a new file for others to download after. If even one person has a different file, you will have a problem with imports/line up changes not taking affect with your imports.

11-23-2017, 09:59 PM	#3
Smed Bat Boy Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 7	So, for a league where the commissioner is also an owner, there's no way to propose a trade to an AI team without the commissioner seeing the offer, even if that offer is rejected?

12-03-2017, 02:31 AM	#5
NoOne Banned Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,273 Infractions: 0/1 (3)	coordinate with a "sister-league" comish is supposed to be able to maintain partiality for these things... most don't do so well with that task... at least it's just a video game. if you get 2 possible trades that require additional input / choice, that would just add a 2nd part to the process... make house-rule trade submission deadline a couple days before you sim the league so that you always have enough time.