The Frozen Tundra of TOUAMB Field

[pmcd9]

How does one maneuver their teams?  Apparently there is a drag and drop feature, but I don't know what I am dragging or where to drop it.

Also, you can trade players?

[Carlos del Vaca]

To move players within your team:  Grab the blue block on the left for the player you want to move, then drag it down to where you want to move him (e.g. the bench).  Players who you can legally swap for him will light up yellow, and then when you drop it there it'll automatically move that guy to the other spot.  Click "Submit Changes" at the bottom when you're done.

To pick up free agents:  click Players: Add up near the top under My Team.  It'll walk you through finding who's available, and once you've picked someone, deciding who to drop from your roster.  Note that certain guys (the big stars/top ranked players) may not be cut from your roster, they're marked as such.

To make trades with other teams:  click Players: trade near the top under My Team.  Find the team you want to trade with, then the player you want to trade.  It'll walk you through marking who you want to offer.  The other team will then get a notification, and they can accept or decline (and then counter-offer, if desired).

[Nabubrush]

Used to be you could switch to classic style to where you didn't have to drag and drop. Not sure if it's still an option. I gotta say, the more I look at my team the happier I am with it. This probably bodes pretty ill. Also, Paul, you can trade as well as add free agents, but in my experience most people just add folks as oppose to try to come up with some Herschel Walker-type monstrosity. Plus trades get voted on, if I recall.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Yeah, when a trade comes up, you get an e-mail allowing you to vote on it (non-votes are considered "yes").  The key here is "Vote on whether you think this trade is fair," not "Do you want to shoot this trade down just because you don't like it."  If someone having a shitty year starts trading away all their best players to one team for crap, vote that shit down.  Doesn't come up too much, fortunately.

[pmcd9]

You vote on all trades, not just your own?

[Carlos del Vaca]

Yup.  You don't HAVE to vote, though, if you think it's an OK trade or you just don't give a shit, don't bother clicking through.

[Nabubrush]

You vote on all trades, not just your own?

You pretty much just vote on your own by virtue of submitting the request. As was mentioned earlier, mostly you're just voting to make sure someone who is out of the playoffs isn't dumping his best players to get his friend an advantage. The only other issue would maybe be someone trying to trade TO for Brees or something, to take advantage of someone who doesn't know much about football.

[Asherdan]

I'm not giving up Brees, BTW.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I've never been much of a trader.  If there's a real obvious need-for-need situation (I have four good relief pitchers but no outfielders!  You have five good outfielders but no relief pitchers!  Let's talk!), then fine.  But too often I feel like I'm being taken for a ride.

The league I used to be in had two guys who were wheeler-dealers, who loved making the deals for their own sake.  One of them in particular was really persistent, e-mailing me and IMing me daily when he wanted to make a deal.  He would spend a lot of time talking about how great the guy he wanted to trade to me was, how it would be good for my team.  Which always led to the question, "If this guy is so great, then why do YOU want to make this deal?"  He rarely had a good answer for that.

[Nabubrush]

Arian Foster delivered a third of my point total this week by himself. I drafted him in the 10th round. So there's that.

[Nabubrush]

I think I'm 2-2 to start the season. Fuck the Chefs.

[miles]

But did you see that punt return?

[Nabubrush]

I saw lots of horrible things in that game. That was but one of them.

[Asherdan]

Hey Nabu', you tell me...is AJ Smith grinding the Chargers Super Bowl window closed under the weight of his massive ego? Is there a "Curse of LT"?

'Cause I think the Chargers are playing on the banks coat tails at this point.

[jaydub]

Its just the inevitable outcome of having Norv Turner as head coach.