Should you be able to buy trades?

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After last year’s backline debacle and this year’s problem with early injuries, would it be wise for Dream Team and/or SuperCoach competitions to have the option of buying trades? If you set the trade price high enough, limit the option to the back end of the season and/or put a cap on the number of trades you can purchase it would be possible to deter people from taking advantage of the option to buy trades. It would have the effect of pacifying beginner DTers or those whose teams become decimated by injury. My preferred option would be to have the option to buy up to five trades towards the end of the season with each trade costing about 150k. This would mean that any team struck down with the injury curse would be able to avoid zeroes in the last few rounds and remain competitive in their league finals.

Effectively, it would mean that you’d have to retain either 150k in the bank or at least one trade. You could use this trade to trade out an injured player. Let’s say you trade out an injured Chad Cornes in round 18, for example, with a value of 300k and buy a rookie. This leaves you with 206k - enough to buy another trade - plus a playing rookie who could increase in value and possibly be traded up. It would help teams avoid a bunch of on-field zeroes and could work a treat.

Anyone else keen on this idea?
 

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Terrible idea. A definite 'God No!'. Finite trading is what this game is all about, I would hate to see it made any easier than it is now.
 

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I don't think so, maybe the idea of not limiting to 2 trades a week but having the same number of trades would be cool. People probably ask why would you need more than 2 but ive been in that scenario before.....
 

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How about something similiar to fantasy premier league with trades costing points. Maybe you get 2 free trades per round, but you can use another 2 at the cost of points.

Not that I'm endorsing the idea as I'm happy the way DT is currently.
 

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No way!!!!!!!!

If you had to spend 150k to make a trade, wouldn't you have to trade someone out to get the 150k in the first place?

Either that or you would have to save 150k in the bank.

Besides, trading is the best part of dream team.
 

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wouldnt you have to use a trade to free up the cash to be able to buy a trade??
so pretty much you're donating your cow profits to nothing?
If the price of a trade was 150k plus I think it would only really be useful in cases of mutiple LTIs... so teams with, say, Chad Cornes, Gary Ablett, Dean Cox on the bench due to injuries in the last three rounds could trade them down to rookies in order to avoid getting zeroes for those rounds. See, it wouldn't make your team all that much better - just help you avoid zeroes for a few rounds.
 

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There is a way to buy trades to protect yourself for the end of the year.

eg You know after Round 1, when you might have had 3 or 4 rookies in the backline, and 1 or 2 didn't play, and then a couple got injured, and you were going to cop a zero instead of 40 points from the rookie, and the injured rookies were coming back in 2 weeks and maybe one of the selected ones were close to selection next week ....

... for 40 points, you can buy a trade by not making one and taking the donut. And that trade can be used for trading out the (hypothetical) James Bartel torn medial ligament in Round 21 for Gary Ablett.
All for 40 points.
 
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FPL is dirt compared to Dream Team.

In Australia, Dream Team is like a sport itself. people like Dream Team more than they like AFL.

In England, people just make a team and hope for the best because the winner is just a fluke that has cammed the system and made like 25 teams.
 

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FPL is dirt compared to Dream Team.

In Australia, Dream Team is like a sport itself. people like Dream Team more than they like AFL.

In England, people just make a team and hope for the best because the winner is just a fluke that has cammed the system and made like 25 teams.
What makes you think that doesnt happen in DT as well.I know 1 bloke who has entered at least 10 teams in DT this year
 
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I think youll find a lot of people do as well to increase their chances of winning.I believe you had a few different teams yourself in DT as well so whats the big deal
I had a couple of teams last year, but now I see that it was a stupid thing to do, and that I'll have more of a chance, and have more fun, if I just focus on one team.
 

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The big deal is that it's cheating and that it's disallowed by the rules, as well as frowned upon by anyone worth a damn.
Can you please explain to me where it states in the rules that it is cheating or disallowed? The rules simply state that your allowed one entry per email address and as long as you adhere to those rules there is no problem.How people choose to maniplulate those rules is up to them but they are still playing by the rules of the competition so there shouldnt be a problem
 
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