Fantasy Football Trade Deadline Primer: Tips and targets to pull off a successful deal

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Look, there are plenty of weeks within the fantasy calendar when you can afford to switch to auto-pilot for a few days and not focus obsessively on your team — but this week, right now, isn’t one of them.

It’s time to lock in, people.

We are careening toward the Yahoo default trade deadline on Saturday, so there’s work to be done. When you wake up on Sunday morning, one of the essential paths to improving your roster will be closed for the season. Everyone enjoys trading, so let’s get to it.

Our mission is to give you three key pieces of trade advice and then offer some fantasy buy-low candidates to target.

1️⃣ If your offer doesn’t address the other team’s needs, it’s going nowhere

Every league has that one manager who approaches trades by thinking only of the players they’d like to dump, not the holes other teams may need to fill. A few times each season, that person will spam the league with Kadarius Toney offers (or similar), then complain that no one is ever willing to trade.

The tiniest amount of pre-offer consideration can go such a long way. Take 30 seconds to review the roster of the team you intend to deal with, then propose something to help both parties. If your offer doesn’t include anything that can obviously improve the other manager’s squad, then it’s simply a time-waster, not a conversation starter.

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2️⃣ It’s a great time to package two players for one, or three for two

A decent guiding principle in fantasy trades is that if you land the best individual player in the deal, you did well. We’ve reached the point in the fantasy season when contending teams need to focus on constructing the best possible starting…


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Publish date : 2024-11-14 15:52:22

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