After dude in my league tried to trade me Damien Pierce and McLaurin for Tyreek Hill in my ESPN league, I gave up. My dynasty league is better though. Usually contenders trading for productive vets with tankers in exchange for draft picks and young assets.

Honestly, offer one back. Also text the guy what he wants and what he’s willing to give up. A trade usually happens when there’s meaningful discussion behind it

I’m one of the only guys in the league who will make / offer impactful trades. Didn’t used to be that way but it changed and now, me trading Chase for Kelce + Zay Flowers after Week 2 is the only decent sized trade this year.

Also, every year for the past 3 years I hit a point where I realize my team is solidly a playoff team but not equipped to compete with 1 or 2 other teams for the championship, so I attempt to fix this with a decent-to-large trade.

I’ve ended up losing them all with the trade that sent away Chase this year probably being the closest. The first one that started off this chain was sending away James Robinson (picked him up few days after they traded Carlos) and AJ Brown and my return Zeke. It was bad. Maybe they have the right idea 🤷🏼‍♂️ I have ended the season saying “No trades next year” for the past 3 seasons

Trying to trade swift or kamara bc I have too many RBs (PPR). Here’s multiple WR 2s and a 3rd down RB!

Amon ra st brown? No! He’s too valuable!

I’ve been in a big money league for about 15 years now. 12 man full ppr with no kicker. There are about 6 teams that trade often and six that rarely, if ever, trade. The teams that trade often never do well. Im also in two work leagues that have standardish $50-$100 buy ins. My experience is about the same across these 3 pools of team managers. I’ve never seen anyone consistently trade and consistently compete. They all act like theres something wrong with you for not trading. Sorry you draft like shit bud but im not giving up my juice to help bolster your team.

I never make the 2 for one trades because that means I have let another one of my players go for no return whatsoever

I keep getting offers for same position trades. Like RB for RB, WR for WR and no other pieces. And I wonder what the point is.

First off I love trading as I find it fun, I don’t necessarily always win them but they are always a good time. Second, a good negotiation tactic is send a lower offer than you think you could get. Then hopefully the other side negotiates back to make it more even. Hopefully that even is where you wanted to be in the first place but the other team feels good because they raised the side of their trade. So if you get a low ball offer, try to swap out players to make it fair if you’re interested. I think anyone that says “I like my team” and just won’t trade is a fool, because everyone has a price.

Trading is tricky. Most people overvalue their non-elite players and aren’t willing to give up big pieces under any circumstances.

For example, guy in my 12 team league has AJ, Diggs, Ridley, Kirk, Gibbs, Swift, Achane. He wanted to make a move on JJ when he went down cos he wanted AJ, Diggs and JJ as his WR core. Which, who wouldn’t? But he offered the JJ owner Ridley+Khalil Herbert+Gibbs back before Gibbs breakout game without Monty.

Point being, people only wanna give up their trash for other peoples treasure.

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