[quote=&quot;Fastidious&quot;]<br />With all due respect I don&#039;t understand how you can defend trading then admit most trades are ridiculously lopsided.&nbsp; Why have a draft at all that attempts to do some semblance of parity and fairness if as history has shown often the MasterBowl win is going go to a team because of a trade?&nbsp; Some captains have made some terrible draft choices but often the terrible trades are much worse.&nbsp; We have captains giving up and trading people away or wrecking their teams to do a trade that only helps one team.&nbsp; Sometimes the captains even know this, yet still they do these trades.[/quote]<br /><br />I said most trades have historically been bad, not all of them. There have been trades that worked for both teams, it&#039;s just that we tend to remember the screw-jobs first. Abolishing the trade system is not going to help parity. Because if people are trading when they deliberately know it will be an extremely bad trade, then parity probably never existed. This is not a result of trading making a mark on the balance of IDL, it&#039;s simply a matter of poor captains/good captains, which I already have addressed. <br /><br />I will say this, Fast. Trading can be a pain. When I traded Mantis, I legitimately felt bad. But, at 0-3 and in need of something different (and quite frankly, more willing to cooperate), I made a desperate move by trading him to the worst situation in the IDL (Naut&#039;s DMC) for Saber. While it didn&#039;t work out, there is that element of how trading can sometimes suck. The last thing in the world I want to do with one of my teammates is basically tell them they&#039;re not good enough. <br /><br /> With that said, I really want to illustrate how important it is that it runs deeper than that. Sometimes, it&#039;s not a matter of being good enough, it&#039;s a matter of getting what you need. If Jenova has LB and I have Stallion, a swap for LB/Stall in our situations make perfect sense. It&#039;s not that Stall is better than LB but I need a runner and Jenova needs a defender. So, in that sense, I see trading being good because sometimes the draft just isn&#039;t on your side. Sometimes, you&#039;re forced to pick the absolute best player you can even if it doesn&#039;t make sense. The idea of trading is beneficial because it gives a captain an outlet so that he can better his team. In instances like this, the lack of trading be allowed would definitely hurt.&nbsp; 