A trade consists of one manager exchanging a player or players with another manager in the same league.
To propose a trade, go to your team page and select "Propose Trade," which allows you to select the team and players you want to trade. An email is sent to the other manager offering your proposed trade. That manager can then go to their team page to view the proposal, accept it, decline it, or make a counter offer. There must be consent from both managers for a trade to be completed. If no action is taken in 10 days, the offer is automatically canceled.
If your trade is rejected, you receive an email notifying you of that result.
If a counter offer is made, you receive an email detailing the new proposal.
If the offer is accepted, the entire league is notified and other managers can review the deal. If they believe the trade is unfair, collusive or will upset the competitive balance of the league, they may protest the trade in hopes of having it vetoed.
In Public Leagues, a protest of four or more managers within two days will veto a trade. While we hope that managers veto trades in good faith, we cannot interfere with the Public League trade review process.
In Custom Leagues configured to use the League Vote option, one-third of all league managers must protest in order for a trade to be vetoed. For example, if your league has 12 teams, then four votes are needed to veto a trade. We always round up, so a ten-team league also requires four votes, even though one-third of ten teams is actually three-and-a-third.
Custom Leagues may also be configured so that only the commissioner has veto power over trades.
During the review period, trades are marked as pending. When the trade has been accepted and the waiting period has finished, the trade is processed (this can take up to 24 hours) and its results reflected on each team's roster and shown in the transaction log.
For a trade to be valid, all players involved must still be on the same team they were when the deal was accepted. If they aren't, the trade is automatically rejected. To prevent players involved in pending trades from being dropped or waived, managers are not allowed to make any such transactions involving any players involved a trade once it has been accepted.
At no time is any manager allowed to have more then five pending trades per league.