I’m throwing this out to those in APBA leagues for any helpful input. Our league (10 team, F-T-F. Basic Game Baseball) is now entertaining a proposal to allow in-season trades which would start next year if passed. To date, we have never allowed trades during the season. Mostly, I think we haven’t done so because stat-keeping would become more complicated.
Here is the meat of the proposal:
1. The trade deadline is the All-Star weekend. This is our last convention of the season and most teams normally have 4 series left and we are all together to make the last minute deals.
2. No draft picks can be swapped.
4. Teams involved in a trade must prove that their limits will still be covered for the rest of the season. If there is a limit violation then the team that violates must drop the player acquired that was responsible for the violation (determined by League President.) The violating team will not be allowed to redraft the dropped player. Existing limit violation penalties will still apply.
5. The League President must approve all trades. If the President is involved in a trade then the Vice President must approve the trade. If the President and Vice President are involved in a trade then the managers not involved in the trade will approve or deny the trade by a vote. Simple majority rules. This should take care of any situations where there is a "swap back" trade at a later date.
For those of you in leagues, how many of you allow in-season trades? Has it worked well? Are there any issues you had to overcome? This is unchartered territory for our 38-year old league and I’m not even sure how much support it has. I admit, I’m intrigued by the idea but not at the expense of headaches down the road.
thanks in advance!
TBL has a one month in-season trading period (month 6 of an 8 month season), governed by the following rule: During the season, trading is only allowed in September. Roster changes resulting from these trades take
effect on the first day of October. Managers are not restricted from talking or making “gentlemen’s agreements” at
any time during the year, but registration of trades in the League office in writing may only be made during this
time. During this in-season trading period, teams may not acquire more than five total new “commodities” (players
or draft choices), because the purpose of such trading periods is not to achieve wholesale roster turnover. There
is no limit to the number of players or draft picks that owners can trade between seasons.
We’ve allowed in-season trades for quite some time and it hasn’t caused any problems. In fact it kind of makes for interesting moves and/or counter-moves by a pennant rival.
Since we have a 36 man roster limit one of the rules requires equal player amounts in any deal and draft picks are not allowed to be dealt during this window.
Stats are no problem because everyone has played the same amount of games. Part of the trade includes player stats thru 112 games.
RCMBA – IN SEASON RULES
..A trading period will be permitted at the 2/3 point of the schedule – at 112 games played.
..Trades made during this time must be for equal player amounts and restricted to:
..(1)maximum of 3 trades per team during this period.
..(2)maximum of 3 players from one team to another team
..(3)maximum of five players dealt from one team during this period
We allow trades up until game 110 played.
The way we deal with playing time is that each player is allowed to play a number games per six game set(this is based on their games played and plate appearances from the cards season). So that means that our schedule is broken into 6 and 7 game blocks. The seventh game everyone is allowed to play.
We can trade as many players and the upcoming draft picks as we want. If your roster exceeds 40 players you must cut players to get to a roster of 40.
Everyone does their own stats and those players are just combined at the end of the year.
Hope that helps.
thanks to all for sharing. I’ll forward this to our league members. Time will tell if this will pass. We certainly are divided on the issue.