Trading Rules
1. All trades must be posted in the Trade Proposals section. If a trade is done during the Draft, it must be clearly announced. After the Draft completes, you must immediately post the trade afterward.
1a. No owner may post on a thread in the Trade Proposals section unless (1) they are one of the owners involved in the trade or (2) they are part of the trade council. I personally ask each member to take on the responsibility of voting. If I haven't asked you yet, you aren't part of the trade council.
2. All trades will be put to a vote by a trade council If you haven't been asked, you aren't part of the voting. At least 3 votes are needed to accept or deny a trade. If the vote ends in a 3-3 tie the commissioner will have final say on approval.
3. Any player traded for may NOT be cut or re-traded till the next offseason. Additionally, you may not pick up a free agent and trade or cut them in the same season that you signed them.
4. When posting a trade please included the player's position, name, overall, salary, cap penalty and your team's current cap space and cap penalty. All trades must have this information posted before they can be approved and done in game.
5. If any player is booted or leaves from the league before playing at least 3 games any and all trades made will be reversed. If you're trading with someone new and don't feel as though you trust them that much yet, don't make the trade. You'll be stuck with any penalties.
6. Any trades made without league authorization from this point on will be forcibly reversed at the expense of the teams that made them. Sorry, but you should have read the rules and/or waited for the necessary votes.
7. Absolutely NO CPU TRADES! All trades must be done by users. No one wants to come into a league where their team just gave up big players they would have liked to have. (See Rule #5) Do not propose trades to or accept trades from the CPU. Before accepting a trade, make sure there is someone controlling the team that proposed it.
8. The league has a Week 9 trade deadline. You may not propose any new trades until after we advance to the offseason after Week 9.
9. Once you have proposed a trade and it has been accepted, you must honor that trade. The only exception to this rule is if both owners agree to cancel the trade before it has transpired.
10. There will be a strict limit of 3 trades per team for each year. 1 during the offseason before the draft and 2 during the Preseason/Season for a total of 3 each year. You may not carry over a trade from the offseason and use it during the season, you forfeit it if you do not use it before the draft. This is regardless of whether or not teams get new owners throughout the season. This rule is here to protect teams from being completely dismantled over the course of a single season or stacking up cap penalties. Exceptions can be made in extreme cases be must receive direct approval from me.
11. Trades are limited to including a maximum of 3 players and/or 3 picks. This means the most you can trade away in a single trade is 3 players and 3 draft picks. I will not change this rule for anyone. Trades must be kept to a reasonable size so that we can accurately judge how equal they are when we vote on them.
12. You may not trade rookies. The only exception to this rule will be during the first season (You may trade 2 rookies during the 2014 season). Any rookie that your team has drafted during the course of this league must be kept through their entire first season. You may trade them as soon as their first season is finished.
13. You may not exceed $12 in cap penalty during a season. This means that if you're already at $8 million in cap penalties you can't trade a player that will give you $4.5 million more. This is a hard number you're not allowed to go past. Ever. It's there to protect the teams.