Fantasy Football is a funny game, and by funny I mean it can be frustrating as hell. You spend months in the pre-draft process listening to “One Dude With a Fantasy”, reading articles and magazines. You draft a great team.
Then six weeks in to the season, you find yourself 1-5 or 2-4. WHAT HAPPENED?! Fantasy Football, that’s what happened. Whether you are the team that has suffered through thirteen injuries, or you are the team that goes up against the highest scoring team every week, there is cliché that you absolutely have to live by: YOU CAN NOT GIVE UP. It’s a super-long season, and there is still plenty of time to turn it around, plus you owe it to your league to try to put a winning lineup out there every week.
One of the best ways to get a season turned around is by making trades. Not that only teams with losing records are the only ones that should be throwing trades out there, trading is a lot of fun. The best part about trading, is that you are allowed to have your own philosophies on players and teams. If a trade makes sense to you and a trade partner, pull the trigger! It’s actually quite exhilarating. But there is nothing worse than going back and forth in trade negotiations for a week or more with a trade partner, only for a trade to be vetoed by your league mates?
Let’s face it: we are all human, and with that comes emotion. We all want to win, and will make decisions based off of the emotion that we get from winning. Part of winning is beating other teams, and the thought of another team getting better simply frightens us. It’s okay to admit, because you are not alone. But we can not do something like veto a trade simply because it makes another team better, that is simply not right. Also, in most cases, everyone pays the same dues, and I may value a player differently than you. If I want to trade Joe Burrow for Kadarius Toney (I did this, and can explain), it should be allowed because I’m a grown ass man in charge of MY team, that I pay for. We have to stop trying to manage other people’s teams, which is exactly what vetoing trades is. There is also nothing that can be done to prevent “tanking”, as it is a necessary part of not only fantasy football, but in real-life sports as well, but we’ll cover that next week perhaps. I go in to more detail about this, as well as explain my philosophy and reasoning behind the Burrow for Toney trade, in the above audio clip.