[Fantasy] PL Trades

Trades will be posted each week sometime not too long after Wednesday afternoon's matches. Trades will close right before the next week's matches start, usually at 13:00 KST/TeamLiquid time on Saturday afternoon.

In the Winners League format there will be no trades between week one and week two.

Generally players offered for trade will be players that are on more than just a couple teams to ensure that trades will be available to the largest amount of participants, exceptions will be made for certain specific requests.

Recent performance is also highly taken into account. Players on hot streaks will less often be offered to be traded away because teams should want to keep their players that are doing well. Players who under-perform will more often be up for trade because owners will not want to keep a potential slumping player around (if you are familiar with other fantasy leagues you probably recognize a trend of cold players being dropped each week to free agency and that week's hot players being snatched up onto people's rosters, but usually ones with uncertain return values for future weeks as all the big name players are never left on free agency). I try to take this mentality into consideration when creating trades.

No trade should be a complete no-brainer to accept, there should be enough weight to the pros and cons of each side of the trade to justify either taking or not taking it. The trade needs to be fair to the person making the trade, but also the people who already own the player you are trading for.

Because I won't be using any trades.

No one who is using trades in the league will be providing input on trade creation.

As of now all trades should be updated in the rankings thread. Do not use the signup link to check your team because it will not reflect trades, only the Daily Rankings thread will be accurate. If your trade isn't there, either semioldguy forgot it (not likely) or you submitted the trade too late or for your captain or didn't have one of each race or some other prohibited action.

Post a request of which players you would like to be able to trade away in this thread or send semioldguy a PM. I can't ensure that everyone's requests will appear in trades due to the large volume of participants, but I will do my best.

Please don't request your player to be traded for a specific certain other player. A majority of the requests like these I receive are not fair trades. Just because Flash isn't working out for you and you thought he'd do as well as Jaedong, doesn't mean you get to trade him for Jaedong who is working out for a bunch of other people. These trades also have to be fair to the owners who already own the player you are trading to receive.

As soon as you know you don't want him.

Preferably sometime before the last matches of the week finish, or just after they finish. Trades will be going up not too long after the last matches of the week and if your request isn't seen before I post them you will end up having to wait until the next week's trades. I will be sure to check my inbox and this thread just prior to posting the trades each week to be sure that as many requests can be met as possible.

Yes.

Teams will appear in trade offers from week to week as well and will be held to many of the same principles of fairness as player to player trades. You will not be able to trade a team for a player or a player for a team.

Nothing special really.

A "Featured Trade" merely denotes a trade as being between two players or teams that will face of against each other in the coming week, so unlike most other trades, these ones are directly relevant to the following week's matches