Hear me out, because you have to. The latest debate here at LFP FFB headquarters has to do with the often unused trading process which has to pass through the anonymous "Trading Committee" that nobody has ever seen. A small group of interested parties feel that the trading committee leaves too much up to people that have no involvement in the league and has no place in making decisions that are important to all of the owners. Instead these dissenting minds think there should be a trading regulations charter drafted that will spell out exactly what makes up a passable trade, leaving the decision solely in the hands of the owners involved based on predetermined factors. Not only are competing team owners not involved in deciding their competition this way, but there are no third parties that would have a say in the way our league is made up and ultimately decided. The trading committee currently has the power to tell us as team owners that we're being unfair in our trading, even though they don't have to compete in our league and don't know how each of us as owners value our different players at different positions. To give these strangers that kind of power is irresponsible and cannot continue if we're to take the trading process in this league seriously. What have we had, like three or four trades in the history of the league?! Maybe if we didn't have this mysterious trading committee people would be more willing to actually try and make this league exciting on days other than Sunday and Monday! So I guess in the spirit of fair-play I would like to have some input on this via blog response, so let's hear it.
i think getting trade approval is cool, just that it doesnt need to be farmed out.
ReplyDeleteperhaps trades within a division could be approved by a committee of the other division (best of 5) on the messageboard.
then trades between divisions....all other owners could just vote on the messageboard, and if there is a 4-4 tie in voting the trade would be approved, just because trading should be encouraged.
anyone that has the power to vote but doesnt is just assumed to be a "yes".
if i understand right, a charter would basically be some sort of value indicator for every player type, draft position, and amount of free agency money...and that owners would have to basically match values to make a trade, then it would be done without any sort of vote? sounds difficult and ambitious, but id be cool with that if we had something everyone was good with.