The season 5 trade between killingblair and nostar which assembled team NS gets a bad rap, which I think is unwarranted.&nbsp; Most people just assume killingblair traded me to nostar for nautilus and possibly some cash bribe as well, point fingers at trading in the idl, and complain about fairness or what not.&nbsp; While many people care enough about the trade to write long forum posts, debate for lengthy times in irc, and complain to the board, surprisingly few (or in all reality unsurprisingly, because the vast majority of you are idiots) cared to actually look at the trade and uncover the details of it.&nbsp; And the few of you who did, seem to have forgotten them and somehow come to believe the common assumptions people make are true.&nbsp; So here is what actually happened:<br /><br />This was the first season of the franchising era.&nbsp; With no previous season results to go off of the draft order was random, and would be released only moments before the actual draft.&nbsp; Pre-season, Killingblair traded nostar his franchise for all of nostar&#039;s draft picks.&nbsp; This meant Killingblair was trading his franchise pick for 2 random first round picks, and basically a very high second round pick (blair was getting the highest of 2 random second round picks.&nbsp; Because teams weren&#039;t allowed to field a 5 man roster, he would have to give the lower of the 2 random second round picks back to nostar). <br /><br />It was not a simple JKist3 for Nautilus trade. To me this seems and always has seemed like a pretty reasonable trade.&nbsp; Yet everyone else cried about it thinking blair was trading his franchise pick for some random douche bag, and even got the board to block trading franchise players in future seasons.&nbsp; Blair traded a franchise player for 2 random first rounders and the highest of 2 second round picks.&nbsp; Yet the next season when doomguy didn&#039;t franchise and in effect was giving up his franchise player for 2 first rounders and a second rounder, everyone praised him. They said it was a smart move for a captain who might have trouble finding a strong player willing to franchise with him to basically take the draft picks instead, even though this was very similar to what they had been crying about the prior season.&nbsp; Why the contradicting feelings? I dunno, maybe ignorance of the blair/nostar trade, maybe doomguy&#039;s team was far less intimidating than team NS (understandable, team NS went on to play in 2 consecutive seasons, winning 2 consecutive masterbowls and never losing a single regular season or playoff match in the process.&nbsp; Something no team had ever done once let alone 2 times in a row.&nbsp; To this date no other team has even done this for one season) so they didn&#039;t mind, maybe stupidity, maybe a little bit of all three.&nbsp; Either way I think it&#039;s hypocritical.&nbsp; People always bash this trade, even though to me it was one of the more creative and reasonable ones done, yet go on to argue for much worse trades at a later date.&nbsp; Stupid people cried enough to a board stupid enough to listen to them and got rules restricting trading in place and put a huge taboo over the whole trading thing, and then later are crying about why there is barely any trading in idl (franchising is no longer currently in effect, so the ban on trading franchise players is irrelevant; however, the spirit of the whole thing is still very relevant).&nbsp; So to everyone here who is complaining about no trading taking place, pull your head out of your ass and figure out what you really want.&nbsp; If you want a league where trading freely takes place then remove restrictions on trading, stop crying about every single trade that happens (I&#039;m pretty sure I can find a multiple page flame thread on these forums for nearly every single trade that has happened in idl history), and embrace the idea that a captain who the league has determined is able enough to control a team is actually able enough to have full control over his team by making trading decisions.