Trading draft picks

cneal · Post by **cneal** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 12:46 pm

My apologies if this has been answered somewhere already, but can we trade our draft position with another team in our league?

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:18 pm

No. This was brought up earlier and we emphatically said no. Any potential lure of collusion isn't allowed with the stakes so high and one man's fair trade offer may be perceived as two guys teaming up to help one of them.

Good question, but we're steadfast on this one.

lichtman · Post by **lichtman** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:25 pm

You should allow people to swap draft positions prior to the draft if it is a swap in every round.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:42 pm

There have been some creative ways to do the draft picks, including being selected first and then getting the opportunity to choose your selection ("I'll take the third overall pick"). Creative, yes, but difficult to enact with a big contest.

I assume some people would like to be able to swap positions before the draft if it included picks for every round. I'm not sure everyone is in favor of that, though, so we'll put that one in the suggestion file for next year. Keep the questions and ideas coming.

Gordon Gekko · Post by **Gordon Gekko** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:00 pm

Swap all picks...sorry, but don't see that happening.

Greg, I still think my idea is a great one for league positions. I've bounced it off multiple gamers, and they all agreed. You never responded to it, so I guess you didn't like it.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:20 pm

I do like it and I just teased it above. But it's not manageable and for a first year contest to try someout out of the mainstream just isn't a good idea. If you're talking about the non-response on the e-mail, don't take it personally. You were one of 200 e-mails that day and I read the e-mails Tom likes a lot first.