In all my time in the IDL, I haven&#039;t really looked at trading as some form of necessary tool in order to win more games. Granted, my last couple seasons have been my least competitive due to a variety of factors (connection being/sucking a major one when I was in SPE). Considering this, most of my other seasons--particularly those as a captain--have been fun and very competitive.<br /><br />I&#039;ve always been of the mindset that the players you pick at draft time are people you&#039;d actually [b]like[/b] to play with. Therefore, I&#039;ve never traded players except on season 2 when I had to do a crazy little shuffle involving Th0r and Primey I think (I&#039;m horrid with history and I&#039;m old so correct me if I&#039;m wrong). It had to do with someone having to leave, but my team still had fun even though we were outgunned.<br /><br />Then I fast forward to the current state of the IDL and my position is a little different. I had an unsuccessful season with SPE but there were good moments and close calls that could have swung the tide in our favor. Not only that, but I think Prime improved a whole lot since that season :). As my connection and Mantis&#039; worsened, he even considered [b]trading himself out[/b] so that the rest of us could have a decent finish to the season. If that&#039;s not being a good fella and awesome cap, I don&#039;t know what is. He did end up trading Mando out and getting Nazz, which didn&#039;t prove too effective but it was an effort that came too little too late.<br /><br />Bottom line is, trade more! All the speculation and discussion around who is good at what position etc etc etc is BS (I call it &quot;DoomMath&quot;) until you see the right 3 players mesh together in-game. A fine example was my season with Whitney and Fast--people even predicted &quot;clear MB winners&quot; and we were promising, but we didn&#039;t live up to our potential. It takes only a couple games to figure out where your season might be heading and it&#039;s good to even anticipate certain catastrophes like connection, moving, and availability at draft time. While I think there should be some control over trading (as it would be stupid to have the entire team shuffle players every match/week), there&#039;s nothing wrong with balancing out the teams so that things are more competitive and actually fun :)