To be fair, I am actually just that good at trading. We didn’t team up and try and build my team into a super team just to beat this one guy. Everyone else wants to win too.
I really am just the greatest at trading. To this point, I haven’t played this card with any of the 8 trades I’ve made. I also didn’t play this card last year when I completely rebuilt my team throughout the season.
And I really don’t think it’s that bad of a trade. The 1-5 dude isn’t winning a championship with Kenneth Gainwell as his RB2, and Dak isn’t that much of a downgrade compared to Allen so far. He’s trading the current QB2 for the current QB3 and a decent RB, and in the process he’s trading receivers on his bench.
But to answer the question, I don’t care one bit about how I build my team. The only thing I’m not going to do is pay guys for players. I do have some integrity.
I’m going to see if I can flip Jeanty and Addison for Achane if I get the above deal to go through. I was talking with the Achane owner about a Jeanty/Warren package, but that wasn’t really moving the needle for him. He needs receivers, so hopefully Addison and/or Shaheed will make him happy.
In a two flex league, I would be starting Travis Hunter until Hampton comes back. I’m not sure I really care though.
The Jewel of the trade is Allen. As for Addison/Shaheed… I would go Addison. His bye week is over, in a limited sample size he is returning over 12 points a game, and he plays for the more dynamic offense. But I wouldn’t hold up the trade either way.
There is absolutely nothing stopping anyone else in our league from doing what I’m doing. I remind them of that every time they get pissed at me for making trades.
I wasn’t judging you or questioning your integrity. I just asked a question because it wouldn’t feel good to me if I had to ask other members to help me stack my team (your words) so that I could win.
I’m a very competitive person and I always want to win, but I want to win on my own merits, not with other people’s help.
That is just me though. If you took it as me questioning your integrity I apologize. It wasn’t my intent.
My buddies do question my competitive integrity, which is a bunch of buddies being buddies BS, but they do give me a hard time about it.
My posts here were sort of an overflow of my arguments and frustration with other league members who try and stop me from doing what I do, which I think is total crap.