Pushy Traders
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:43 am
Thought I'd get people's thoughts on trading tactics. In one of my leagues there's a couple of guys who come across as extremely pushy when offering trades. Does this tactic actually work? I'll get bombarded by emails and messages with questions like "Well?????" If I say something like "interesting offer, let me sleep on it and I'll get back to you tomorrow," they'll fire back by "How can we get this done tonight?!" I hate that. Don't try to bully me into making a trade with you, you came to me with this, I'm not the one that's desperately looking to deal, I was happy with my team and I need to figure out if what you've got on the table is going to help me out any. Maybe I'm just conservative but I don't like to just fly by the seat of my pants and trade recklessly.
I've also had more than a few people come to me saying "oh, but that guy will never start for you." This one makes me laugh. Do you think I'm stupid? I've been playing this for more than a few years and I've come to see what happens when a team has poor depth. For example, one guy came to me last night and threw in Isaac Redman into a deal we were discussing, almost like he was trying to sneak him into the deal thinking I wouldn't notice. I called him on it and said "Giving Redman plus Stafford and Lynch is overkill, no thanks." He fires back with the "he'll never start for your argument" Sorry, not falling for that one. It's one thing if I had guys like Foster, McCoy, Rice and Matthews, but Redman is likely going to be my RB3 for the majority of the season. Injuries, bye weeks etc. these things can be major issues if you don't have yourself covered, if that was the case then everybody would just roster enough players to fill our their starting lineup and then forget about the rest. How stupid is this argument?
I've also had more than a few people come to me saying "oh, but that guy will never start for you." This one makes me laugh. Do you think I'm stupid? I've been playing this for more than a few years and I've come to see what happens when a team has poor depth. For example, one guy came to me last night and threw in Isaac Redman into a deal we were discussing, almost like he was trying to sneak him into the deal thinking I wouldn't notice. I called him on it and said "Giving Redman plus Stafford and Lynch is overkill, no thanks." He fires back with the "he'll never start for your argument" Sorry, not falling for that one. It's one thing if I had guys like Foster, McCoy, Rice and Matthews, but Redman is likely going to be my RB3 for the majority of the season. Injuries, bye weeks etc. these things can be major issues if you don't have yourself covered, if that was the case then everybody would just roster enough players to fill our their starting lineup and then forget about the rest. How stupid is this argument?