Was just wondering if you ever though of adding trading draft picks into trade deals? Say I have zero in HS and College scouting and want to build my ML I could trade my first round pick to a team for an experienced ML player to help my team now and theirs in the future?

It's not something that is allowed IRL MLB (unless they are competitive balance picks), but I'd be 1000% on board with allowing the trading of draft picks for HBD.

That's a slippery slope. You allow draft pick trading, it would have to be only the current season's draft picks and not future seasons. Even if they allowed current season picks to be traded, I would imagine all the teams running a $120mm + payroll would also be trading away all their picks. What stops them from bailing on the franchise once the mlb team is no good and the franchise has no farm whatsoever? Then the World is stuck because only a Saint would takeover a franchise that has no young assets.

Current rules FYI do not allow even trading a drafted player in the same season they're drafted. Specifically to keep current (one-season) owners from stripping a franchise of prospects before evacuating.

I’m with Tlowster, it’s already annoying enough to take over a team and see how poorly the previous coach used his picks, this would create more problems than it solves.

Agree with Tlowster also. Only current year draft picks imo. I'd almost be inclined to set a limit that only compensation picks can be traded, or picks 16+, etc. Throwing in the possibility of trading away a top ten pick is league altering.

Part II - those teams who always win, always draft late, but trade their high-earning (overpriced) vets for other teams' (cost-controlled) prospects.

Allowing traded draft picks - and indeed, current season draftees - only accelerates the process for that type of team. They would never have to "earn" a high draft pick, something they already get around.

Yeah. This screams like it's more of an idea that would remove obstacles of a certain strat as opposed to making the overall game better.

Just a suggestion, but yes it would only be that current season draft pick and the 16+ pick could be doable so that way teams with top 15 picks can't trade away their pick and supplemental could be in this as well.

While for some, trading is the most fun aspect of the game, it is also the most contentious aspect of the game. Just my opinion here, but based on my experience, this would cause more problems than it would add more fun. There's already too many owners that treat this game, that is marketed as a Dynasty game, more like a trading card game.

Yeah, trading is the most exploitable aspect of the game be a huge margin, it shouldn't be given more leeway IMO.

In fact, if any change was made to trading, I'd go the opposite direction of OP and put stricter trade rules in place. Something like - owners can only trade with other owners within .100 or even .050 career win% of each other - like a handicap in golf. Could at least be interesting as a private world rule. If HBD as a whole was really healthy from a competitive balance perspective, .450-.550 would be about the lower and upper limits anyway, something like that could be one way to nudge towards that.

Posted by brianplath on 7/9/2021 1:26:00 AM (view original):
Yeah, trading is the most exploitable aspect of the game be a huge margin, it shouldn't be given more leeway IMO.

In fact, if any change was made to trading, I'd go the opposite direction of OP and put stricter trade rules in place. Something like - owners can only trade with other owners within .100 or even .050 career win% of each other - like a handicap in golf. Could at least be interesting as a private world rule. If HBD as a whole was really healthy from a competitive balance perspective, .450-.550 would be about the lower and upper limits anyway, something like that could be one way to nudge towards that.

I like the idea, but I know a few owners that would hate it because it punishes owners that are really good and really bad. I really like the idea though and would get behind it 100 percent.

You can trade certain comp picks in MLB, by the way; have been allowed since about 2012-3. They're comp picks of a sort we don't have in HBD, they're issued to small market teams, in the same part of the round as type B comps.

FWIW I think trading picks is a bad idea in a game where there's 10%-ish owner turnover every season and in which there are no meaningful financial disincentives for leaving a world.

Posted by tlowster on 7/9/2021 2:42:00 PM (view original):

Posted by brianplath on 7/9/2021 1:26:00 AM (view original):
Yeah, trading is the most exploitable aspect of the game be a huge margin, it shouldn't be given more leeway IMO.

In fact, if any change was made to trading, I'd go the opposite direction of OP and put stricter trade rules in place. Something like - owners can only trade with other owners within .100 or even .050 career win% of each other - like a handicap in golf. Could at least be interesting as a private world rule. If HBD as a whole was really healthy from a competitive balance perspective, .450-.550 would be about the lower and upper limits anyway, something like that could be one way to nudge towards that.

I like the idea, but I know a few owners that would hate it because it punishes owners that are really good and really bad. I really like the idea though and would get behind it 100 percent.

I am going to suggest this in one of my Worlds during our season end suggestion period. I want to see how much traction this gets. thanks for posting. I really like the idea.

You bet! If they adopt it let me know. I'd def be down for joining that kind of world.