League trading is open for a brief window of two weeks before the trade deadline. All other times of the year, it is closed.
Keeper Trade: This will refer to a trade that the managers involved in believe will benefit one team in the current year and the other team in the future based on the keeper rules of the LNH.
Fair Exchange Deal: This will refer to a trade that is made by both parties with the current year in mind and gives neither team a significant advantage in the future with regards to the protection rules.
Two weeks before the trade window opens, the commissioner will notify the league thru WhatsApp.
If teams are making a trade, neither team can include more than three players in the deal.
Any team involved in a keeper deal who is getting the perceived better player/s for the future must keep that/those player/s the following year. The team trading for futures must receive two players back if they give up three players. No three for one keeper deals are allowed.
Teams can make only one trade with each manager in the league per season.
When a team has no realistic chance of making the playoffs, any fair exchange deal they make with another manager has to be arguably impactful on their future. In other words, they are trading for an actual chip that would be relevant in a keeper deal they may make or a trade that exchanges potential impact players for the next year. If you are a playoff contention manager, do not get too caught up in the above wording and try to loophole your way into fair exchange deals that use a non-playoff team as a farm squad to supplement the categories you’d like to beef up.
Your responsibility as a manager in this league: If you view a trade as lopsided or any other plethora of possibilities as to why you feel the transaction should not be allowed by the LNH, contact the commissioner privately as soon as possible during the review period, and the trade will come under review. If the commissioner is involved in a deal you feel is offside, please contact the co-commissioner.
What will get a trade vetoed? Very little. If a manager in this league feels a deal is a little or a lot sideways, an explanation from the one who is perceived to be on the losing end of the exchange is asked for privately by the commissioner. If that individual has a thought process that makes even a little sense, the commissioner can’t say, or no other manager can say, too bad, I’m right you’re wrong, most likely it will be allowed. However, if the manager has no explanation that is even remotely reasonable, the trade will be vetoed by the commissioner. The LNH may suspend that manager’s trading privileges for a period of time. The person who offers the deal or accepts it who is perceived to be on the winning end will have no sanctions imposed against them.
When a manager has been inactive and suddenly shows up and makes a trade, the transaction immediately comes under review if the commissioner was aware or made aware of the situation.
When a traded player has an injury during the time a trade is pending, the transaction will still process. If, however, a manager had a deal sitting on his team roster page, and suddenly a new injury occurs that makes hitting accept favourable for him, so he quickly hits accept, the deal would be vetoed automatically by the LNH due to lousy sportsmanship.
In a card game, if the ace is the highest card, how fun is it if some chump keeps passing the high cards across the table to your competitor for a laugh. After a while, the game becomes pointless. Serious competitors fill the manager spots in the LNH, who though here for good times, invest a lot of time into each season. If guys are here for a laugh and passing off Kings and Queens for 5’s and 6’s, they may not get an invite back the following season.