I have been in 3 long term fantasy leagues. I have been playing for about 15 years (not long compared to most, I know).
Every trade offer I get is just ridiculous and lop sided. People keep razzing me when we meet up that I never trade etc. Maybe it’s the people I play with but everyone is super competitive and we all pay buy ins so it’s taken seriously.
Anyone else just depend on their draft and waivers and it’s just ride or die?
I’m not much of a fan of the fantasypros articles but I did read a good on there by that Fitz guy and he laid it out really well. Basically he says that he never goes into a trade offer trying to ‘win’ the trade, that most certainly will fail. Instead he tries to find a deal that helps him and his trade partner equally. Like say the other guy has 4 solid WRs all putting up very similar production but he’s banged up at RB, that guy can’t start all those wideouts every week so he’s wasting production, try to work a deal where you send him a good back (not an elite guy, but a good back in RBBC scenario or something) in exchange for one of the WRs. Deals like that where everyone wins are the only way to get trades done in most competitive leagues. Nobody wants your WW pickup from last week, you gotta offer value to get value. Once I started taking this approach I was able to get some good trades done