Okay there seems to be some mix up about what a trade is. Is a trade one transaction. Interestingly enough the word transaction isn&#039;t even used in the rules. So what is a trade exactly?<br /><br />If you believe a trade is between two teams, then great! If you believe a trade can only involved two players, great! If you believe that a trade is a fucking dinosaur with oreo scales....GREAT! It turns out a trade isn&#039;t defined in the rules. And yes, that sucks.<br /><br />Now there have been times when the IDL encountered a situation that the rules didn&#039;t cover. Last season I brought to the attention of the board that nowhere in the rules did it say home field picks were eliminated from the pool as they are picked. I asked if I could pick a homefield that was already picked and Ralph and Ladna said (I&#039;m paraphrasing) &quot;No, and we&#039;ll change the rules to match. Thank you Nostar.&quot;<br /><br />This is how IDL works. We encounter new things and when there isn&#039;t a pre-determined action to be taken the board and commissioner discuss and make a decision. This is what happened here. Now Ralph is taking issue with the fact that there is no rule for this. Cool. I&#039;ve read the rule page and I looked for a place where it defined what a trade could be. I looked for the word transaction. I looked for any notion that a trade could not be executed from 1 team to 2 other teams. It&#039;s not there. Maybe it was an oversight, certainly the home field situation was an oversight. Do you know what happened. Ralph decided and then added it to the rules. Bones decided, and the board is going to add something to the rules that covers this. Look no one is writing a Human Resources manual. The rules need updating as new cases arise. Bones is the commish, he decided what was fair, and that is what happened. If you don&#039;t like it, I&#039;ll tell you what you told me last season...tough.<br /><br />Just for clarity I will add that I agree this trade involved two &quot;transactions&quot;. I don&#039;t see much of a difference from the trade made the same evening including Mantis/Marax traded for dewww/MadV. Adding a team to the mix doesn&#039;t make it any different in my head. It&#039;s still two players leaving a team and two players joining.<br /><br />So no Ralph it&#039;s not an illegal trade. It&#039;s just something IDL has never seem before. And before you post some backwater unidoom.org rules here I would ask you to abide by the same rules that everybody in IDL sees on the homepage.<br /><br />And finally I would say that I think the rules need to be revamped to reflect the new league, with younger, less dedicated players, more teams, less experienced captains and a shorter season (I think). These rules were written during the franchise era and have had very few updates. One more task the board is failing miserably at. <br /><br />&lt;nostar&gt; dewww, goat, mantis, miek, you all blow so far. Legislate, post or please hand in yr resignations.