[quote author=Ralphis link=topic=517.msg5064#msg5064 date=1318824012]<br />[b]Fun fact:[/b] Only 4/10 teams have ever won the entire league with teams built entirely from the draft. Those teams are:<br /><br />TBA<br />RNB<br />Jenova&#039;s BSKs<br /><br />Almost every other single winner has acquired their final roster through trades, including all three teams during the franchise seasons and last season.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />RNB had some pre-draft shenanigans which could be counted as trading as well.&nbsp; I wanted to make a new topic on this because you could easily argue trading has been much worse for parity than the draft.&nbsp; My gut feeling is we don&#039;t really need trading in the IDL, it seems more open to create lopsided teams than anything else.&nbsp; It has no real regulations; there is no fairness or parity forced on trading unlike the draft which attempts to do some parity and fairness.&nbsp; Trading is whatever you can agree to with another captain and such will always be rife with potential for abuse and bad deals.<br /><br />I&#039;m not saying there shouldn&#039;t be free agency or replacing players or such during the season but is trading team to team really needed?&nbsp; I&#039;d like to see a season without it.&nbsp; Especially looking at this thread about what trading really is - http://forums.intldoomleague.org/index.php?topic=460.0 trading seems getting ridiculously complex (almost equal to the rest of the IDL rules!) yet those rules do not fix it&#039;s core problem of trading hurting parity more than helping it.