League configuration help index

Trade Deadline

The trade deadline is the last week during which trades are allowed. For example, setting the trade deadline to Week 10 means the final week during which trades will be allowed is Week 10; the trading pages become unavailable starting Week 11.

The purpose of the trading deadline is to prevent collusion. It is intended to keep those teams with mathematically little or no chance to make the playoffs from trading their best players away, perhaps to some other better team in exchange for a share of any earnings won in the post-season with the newly acquired players.

Most leagues set the trading deadline somewhere in the final third of the season, often around Week 9 or 10.

If you feel the peer review system provides sufficient measure to prevent collusive or otherwise dubious trades, you can turn off the trading deadline by using the number of weeks in your league's regular season as the trade deadline value.

Trades are never allowed during post-season play.