Our season has pretty much ended in the Illowa APBA League. We still have a few have a few minor and not so minor details to take care of. The last electronic newsletter hasn’t come out, we’ll need to vote on our All-League team and most importantly, the playoffs and the World Series will need to be played. That usually waits till the weekend of the draft.
That all said, it’s hot stove league for us. Trade talk is at a high right now. And with me with the second pick I have a lot of suitors, I tell ya.
An informal poll here, how many of you in leagues can trade in season? We toyed with the idea a couple years ago. A manager even proposed it in our yearly league meeting but quickly rescinded it.
The feeling among some of us is that it would be too difficult to keep track stats both short term over the year (especially considering our limits rule) as well as long term.
See, while we do use a fantastic master Excel spreadsheet for our league stats, doing multiple teams for one player might be beyond its scope.
And for those who do trade within a season, how do you accomplish this with a minimum of confusion?
PS no trades yet for me.. but don’t hold your breath. I got hot stove fever!
In TBL, we allow trades during the 6th month of an 8-month season. (And we determine the draft order by the standings at the end of the 5th month.) During the trading period, a team may not acquire more than 5 new players or draft picks. Traded players join their new teams at the beginning of month 7.
Usually we have no more than 10 or so transactions during the trading month, and with players joining their new clubs on the month boundary keeps statistics confusion to a minimum.
I should have asked this in the orig post but do you (and anyone else) place a restriction as to matching up number-wise. In other words, does it have to be one for one, two for two, etc?
The IAL does partially because we have a relatively small roster (26 players) that has to make it through a whole season.
If we had a 30 or 36 team roster or a reserve system (and believe me, some managers are pushing for it) uneven trades would be more possible.
-tbz