Ace Matherton
07-30-2008, 01:00 PM
If you ever said i will never draft, or these guys are untouchable you may want to read this.
Making the league "think" you overpay for trades works very very well, the trick is convincing the other owner he won and having multiple trading partners lined up to make the overpayment a value bet.
http://www.fftoday.com/articles/englander/08_trade_negotiation.htm
If you have played fantasy football long enough, you have likely come across that rare breed of manager who can think three, four or sometimes five steps ahead. You will often see this manager throw out blue chip players like LT2 or Adrian Peterson or Steven Jackson or Brian Westbrook, not because he is looking at the trade he is about to make, but because he is looking two to three trades ahead, at which time he will end up with a pairing of two blue chip players in that same category. His mastery is so proficient that he is brokering deals between other teams in order to get a player he covets onto a team with whom he can make a trade.
Most of us will likely never reach this level of mastery and to emulate this manager could be not only daunting, but destructive as well. However, other tools do exist for all of us to at least recognize what may not be directly in front of us when considering a trade.
Making the league "think" you overpay for trades works very very well, the trick is convincing the other owner he won and having multiple trading partners lined up to make the overpayment a value bet.
http://www.fftoday.com/articles/englander/08_trade_negotiation.htm
If you have played fantasy football long enough, you have likely come across that rare breed of manager who can think three, four or sometimes five steps ahead. You will often see this manager throw out blue chip players like LT2 or Adrian Peterson or Steven Jackson or Brian Westbrook, not because he is looking at the trade he is about to make, but because he is looking two to three trades ahead, at which time he will end up with a pairing of two blue chip players in that same category. His mastery is so proficient that he is brokering deals between other teams in order to get a player he covets onto a team with whom he can make a trade.
Most of us will likely never reach this level of mastery and to emulate this manager could be not only daunting, but destructive as well. However, other tools do exist for all of us to at least recognize what may not be directly in front of us when considering a trade.