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What's the difference between buying a prospect after he is drafted by another team in all the leagues in BB compared to your money for draft pick suggestion?

As for trading, I just can't see how a system could be worked out that would resistant to manipulation. There are other threads discussing this, but it boils down to something like, how do you make sure that the value of each side's offer is about equivalent? Well, currently players are evaluated by the transfer price estimate, and we all know that's not a great metric. So what's your alternative suggestion? And how is it materially better than the current "sell-your-guy" and then "buy-a-new-guy", where the transfer market assigns a value to the players?

You do have a good point there, balancing the offer between both teams is important because you really dont want to be the guy getting ripped off or losing a good player for a bust.

and i also miss the advantage of trades. When you look at the whole money with your income from a sell is it much more likely to find the perfect fit for your team, instead of only looking at 2-3 teams who are intrested in your player.

A trading system might be better in a small market, and even in the nba i think it is still there to avoid to much trades(make then more complicated), and through their salary cap/player contract system.

I really like the prospect of inner-league pick trading.

I think it could be included easily: the day after the regular season ends and the draft positions are fixed, a "league only" transfer market opens, where you can list your draft picks for a minimum bet of your choice if you want to get rid of them.

I also think there should be a maximum bet - 1,000,000 for first overall - 950,000 for 2nd - 900,000 for 3rd - 800,000 for 4 - 10 - 700,000 for 11 - 16 - 500,000 for any 2nd rounder - 200,000 for any 3rd rounder.

All auctions end Friday before the draft, no matter when you added your pick to the auction, so you know 3 days in advance how many and which picks you got.

If your scouting came up with several players of interest, you might want to take a gamble and get your hands on 2 or 3 picks, while if you don´t believe in the draft or cannot afford adding another prospect to your training rotation you might take the money and leave your guy unseen.

Last edited by LA-seelenjaeger at 6/21/2011 3:02:26 PM

Just do a trade system without players, only involving picks and money. Each pick has a certain value: if you want to buy a pick, there is a set price. If you want to trade pick, the money is transferred based on the difference in pick value.

Sometimes reading your comments make me wonder if you don´t WANT to see the difference between what people are promisiing and what you say or that you cannot.

There is a HUGE difference between selling a PICK and selling a player you drafted, and of course there´s a huge difference between buying a PLAYER and a PICK.

If you buy a pick, you will use it to get a guy by your own preferences. That might not be the guy another person drafted there. You try to excel your chances of getting players you scouted and which are for some reason compelling to you. If you sell one, you don´t believe in the system or you´re simply selling the prospect of getting a useful player to someone who´s willing to pay for it.

I don´t exactly see your paranoid way of cheating if a pick can only be sold within the league. "If you have two teams in the same league"? Excuse me. Where does that happen? How would you cheat if you have fixed maximum bets, if all auctions end at the very same moment BEFORE the draft, and if it´s a closed system within a set league?

The only thing I see there happening might be a "money transfer" taking place which is NOT adressed for the draft but for "losing a game" or such. Like "lose that game and i´ll buy your 3rd rounder for 200k". Which is a valid point. But still, trading draft picks is a damn interesting option you refuse to see for whatever reason.

So yes, I can a system in which you´re only able to sell your first round pick, maybe even for a set prize (multiple bidding by different coaches should trigger some kind of "tie breaker system" to clinch the multiple interest), but the idea of selling it or acquiring some is still pretty awesome.

I don´t exactly see your paranoid way of cheating if a pick can only be sold within the league. "If you have two teams in the same league"? Excuse me. Where does that happen?

i believe you could invite teams to your league ;) or atleast it was possible in the past.

But i am not sure how it works out, when players just sell their picks and don't invest in scouting while other teams, buy most of the picks and heavily invest in scouting - looks a bit weird for me but opossible with the new system. And through the small market, picks could be relative cheap, especially in bot prome leagues, where picks get more valuable because the bot don't draft well.

But on the other hand it add more strategy in the draft.