mikecouil wrote:
setherick wrote:
mikecouil wrote:
That's what the balancer is for.
The balancer is worthless. Players that are worth a 1st round pick usually don't rate above 100 trade points. Players that are worth a 4th round pick are usually rated 2000+ on the balancer. Positions that are always overvalued are TEs and LBs while it's "easy" to trade a 6th round pick for a 4,000+ yard QB if your trade partner isn't paying attention.
So then your fix is to scrap the ONLY thing currently providing checks and balances in favor of a majority wins trading system? The balancer is flawed, but far from worthless. Perhaps simply fixing the wheel rather than reinventing it makes more sense here.
Absolutely, yes, scrap the thing. I get more frustrated trying to make reasonable trades work with the balancer than I do with people potentially colluding. People that actually cheat get caught. (And these types of threads show why.)
I've seen way too many uneven trades by rookie GMs BECAUSE of the trade balancer than I have seen the trade balancer protect. When GMs don't have their weights dialed in, and they are using the balancer as a "guide" to make a trade, they become much more susceptible to really bad trades.
The trade balancer also doesn't stop the "pick swap" trades that KoB gets called out on so much. And they don't stop the "unannounced position switch" (making an LB a DT or a FB an OL to make the player more valuable) trades that I've seen others get caught up in.
Pro tip: when trading players that you have switched positions on, trading etiquette demands that you announce the switch if the player has not reached ideal weight for the position.