A novel trading idea

bwburke94 · 11-28-2014, 11:52 PM

A few years ago, the maximum players per trade in a team was cut from 10 to 5 to avoid one team from stacking a large number of low-value players in a trade.

I'd like to see the limit moved back to 10 - but to avoid the stacking problem, AI-controlled teams will only consider the values of the five most significant players they receive, while considering the values of all players they give up. (Note: Negative value from player contracts should be able to make a player negatively "significant", to make it impossible to dump an albatross contract by adding five zero-value players to the trade.)

hfield007 · 11-29-2014, 06:04 AM

I like this.

Erik · 12-11-2014, 11:40 AM

Or why can't it just be an option in the league set-up for how many players you want to allow in a trade? What if I wanted to allow teams to trade 20 players if they wanted to? It's my league, I should be allowed to play it how I want.

bwburke94 · 12-12-2014, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Erik

Or why can't it just be an option in the league set-up for how many players you want to allow in a trade? What if I wanted to allow teams to trade 20 players if they wanted to? It's my league, I should be allowed to play it how I want.

As long as there aren't any memory issues on x86 systems, this may be a good idea - though whether this is feasible coding-wise is another question.

11-28-2014, 11:52 PM	#1
bwburke94 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belchertown, MA, USA Posts: 4,522	A novel trading idea A few years ago, the maximum players per trade in a team was cut from 10 to 5 to avoid one team from stacking a large number of low-value players in a trade. I'd like to see the limit moved back to 10 - but to avoid the stacking problem, AI-controlled teams will only consider the values of the five most significant players they receive, while considering the values of all players they give up. (Note: Negative value from player contracts should be able to make a player negatively "significant", to make it impossible to dump an albatross contract by adding five zero-value players to the trade.)

11-29-2014, 06:04 AM	#2
hfield007 All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,737	I like this.

12-11-2014, 11:40 AM	#3
Erik All Star Reserve Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 505	Or why can't it just be an option in the league set-up for how many players you want to allow in a trade? What if I wanted to allow teams to trade 20 players if they wanted to? It's my league, I should be allowed to play it how I want.