Trading Picks

[JakeOfSpades]

When trading picks in a startup league, what is a general rule of thumb as far as comparing pick to picks value? (e.g. What picks might be a fair trade for pick 1.09?) Thank you.

[FantasyFreak]

Not sure if it's rookie picks you mean, or startup picks. You can try fining startup ADP with draft picks, or rookie players in it. Find where the 9th rookie is ranked. Arbitrarily, say he's ranked 85th in that ADP. 85 divided by 12(picks per round) is just over 7. So early 7th round would be appropriate. That number is not accurate to my knowledge, just an example of how you could try and find approximate pick value for a trade offer.

If it's the startup 1.09, well, that's a top ten dynasty player, so you need to look at ADP to see what range of players are at later picks. For instance, if you get an offer of 3.12, 5.12, 9.01 and 15.12, take a look at that ADP range in rankings. You would want to decline this offer. However if you got offer 2.09, 3.03 and 4.09, that's a much better selection of players in those ranges, so it would be more worth considering. Having a good set of ADP rankings is really important for a draft to ballpark this type of stuff.

[JakeOfSpades]

Not sure if it's rookie picks you mean, or startup picks. You can try fining startup ADP with draft picks, or rookie players in it. Find where the 9th rookie is ranked. Arbitrarily, say he's ranked 85th in that ADP. 85 divided by 12(picks per round) is just over 7. So early 7th round would be appropriate. That number is not accurate to my knowledge, just an example of how you could try and find approximate pick value for a trade offer.

If it's the startup 1.09, well, that's a top ten dynasty player, so you need to look at ADP to see what range of players are at later picks. For instance, if you get an offer of 3.12, 5.12, 9.01 and 15.12, take a look at that ADP range in rankings. You would want to decline this offer. However if you got offer 2.09, 3.03 and 4.09, that's a much better selection of players in those ranges, so it would be more worth considering. Having a good set of ADP rankings is really important for a draft to ballpark this type of stuff.

Sorry referring to rookie picks.

[Dr.Graffin]

For startups, I usually consider a future 1st round pick worth a player in the 5th or 6th round.