"Inexperienced" owners making bad trades can have a significant impact on a leagues competitive balance. There doesn't seem to be a perfect solution, every change has its pros and cons. An idea that I had that wouldn't be perfect either, but may help make trades more fair, would be to increase transparency.
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https://mfn6.myfootballnow.com/community/thread/5/1846?page=1#11504I propose to make trade offers public for all owners in a league to see. People can still offer lopsided trades, but under this change, other owners can send better offers to "out-bid" the original offer.
-If people are worried about "cheaters", well this would help bring them to the surface, because nothing would be a bigger "red flag" for a cheater than them declining a good trade offer to take a bad one.
-If people are worried about "uninformed" or "inexperienced" owners accepting lopsided trades and messing up a team for several seasons, then this could help that as well, because in most cases other owners would send better offers once they see that the "lopsided" trade was offered. This would be similar to JDB's idea to have trades be "peer reviewed", but this would be a much less drastic change to the current system.
[Sorry about the long post, and I welcome any feedback. Thanks]