I have a fantasy baseball team, SRS.
About a month ago, I pulled off a trade: I sent Uggla and E. Santana in exchange for Utley.
People in my league (half the league is in my office) were upset about the trade. In fact, I learned after the fact that the commissioner was going to block the trade.
Part of the issue is that the team that had Utley was owned by someone who (1) doesn't know what she's doing; and (2) pays NO attention to her team. The other side of the story is that in addition to Utley, she has Pujols, Berkman, Dye, and a bunch of other solid fantasy performers. But she had little pitching. So I offered her the No. 2 2B and a solid SP for the best 2B. I thought it was a fair trade.
I think people reacted because they thought I took advantage of the other owner's ignorance. Uggla is .007 behind Utley in BA and 3 behind in HR. E. Santana is 8-2 with an ERA just over 3. I think it was a fair trade. You may have done things differently, but that doesn't make it a fair trade.
In honesty, I knew that I could NOT take advantage of her because that would not be fair. In fact, I thought long and hard about which pitcher to send to her. At the time, E. Santana was 6-0 (or 6-1) with an ERA under 3. I had weaker SP that I could've offered. But I purposely offered a quality fantasy SP and the 2nd best fantasy 2B. She "sacrificed" a little production in the 2B spot, but got a legit SP, which is what she needed because she had very little SP.
I still think it was a fair trade.
I guess it bothers me that people think I took advantage of some one's ignorance when I thought about what offer and tried to be fair.
I also think that that if the girl won more games (and she should have at least 5 wins but she only has 2) no one would be complaining. She made the trade and refuses to fill in her empty slots. She has 2 wins without really looking at her team. In fact, the first time we played (pre-trade) we tied 5-5. I won all the pitching stats and she won all the batting stats. This week, I'm winning 6-3-1 (she's winning era, saves, and whip.) If she filled in the 3 empty batting slots, she'd probably be beating me.
My coworker thinks she made the trade without knowing what she was doing. But she had to drop a player to execute the trade. So, if she's right, this girl saw my offer, clicked accept, dropped a player (and you can't just randomly drop a player. you have to actually, actively, and specifically select someone to drop), and confirmed everything without knowing what she was doing. C'mon. She may not know baseball but she knows the difference between accept, decline, confirm, and cancel.
But let's assume she managed to click her way through the trade without realizing what she was doing. It's still a fair trade.
I don't think I did anything wrong.
p.s. Even after the trade, she has 4 of the top 10 ranked fantasy players, including Uggla.
