Re: BFFFL #1 - Part 3
What Brasher means is COLLUSION. Which is not allowed. Which is what you proposed is.
Now I'm really confused
Collusion is an agreement, usually secretive, which occurs between two or more persons to deceive, mislead, or defraud others of their legal rights, or to obtain an objective forbidden by law typically involving fraud or gaining an unfair advantage. It can involve "wage fixing, kickbacks, or misrepresenting the independence of the relationship between the colluding parties.
Are you saying that people who traded picks in a round where they had keepers (ie trading down in that round) were gaining an unfair advantage?
As far as I know you have to use a pick in a round to retain a keeper, it doesn't have to be your original pick, it just has to be a pick. Even more, if you don't have a valid pick in that round, don't you lose your pick in the next round.
If you can't trade picks, we might as well get rid of trading picks completely, because who is going to decide if a pick is unfair or not.
Soemone might want to trade all or most of their picks for a certain player (eg the Herschel Walker trade in the NFL)
Minnesota Vikings Received:
RB Herschel Walker
Dallas's 3rd round pick - 1990
San Diego's 5th round pick - 1990
Dallas's 10th round pick - 1990
Dallas's 3rd round pick - 1991
[edit] Dallas Cowboys Received:
LB Jesse Solomon
LB David Howard
CB Issiac Holt
RB Darrin Nelson
DE Alex Stewart
Minnesota's 1st round pick in 1990
Minnesota's 2nd round pick in 1990
Minnesota's 6th round pick in 1990
Minnesota's 1st round pick in 1991
Minnesota's 2nd round pick in 1991
Minnesota's 2nd round pick in 1992
Minnesota's 3rd round pick in 1992
Minnesota's 1st round pick in 1993
noone accused anyone of any collusion in that trade - but you could argue that the Cowboys received an unfair advantage as a result of the trade.