We Have a Trade!!

For the first time in PPFFL history, we have an actual trade to report. Since it's the first one ever, it has to be a doozy. Although it doesn't appear to involve superstar players, it is a 3-team deal, meaning quantity is substituting for quality. The deal is as follows:

The Maestro
Outgoing:
Chris Johnson (RB - Tennessee)
Donald Lee (TE - Green Bay)

Incoming:
Maurice Jones-Drew (RB - Jacksonville)
L.J. Smith (TE - Philadelphia)


Gnomies
Outgoing:
Maurice Jones Drew (RB - Jacksonville)
L.J. Smith (TE - Philadelphia)

Incoming:
Darren McFadden (RB - Oakland)
Donald Lee (TE - Green Bay)


Cyclones
Outgoing:
Darren McFadden (RB - Oakland)

Incoming:
Chris Johnson (RB - Tennessee)


This trade has been approved by a majority of the league owners that were not involved, meaning it is a valid deal.

Yahoo!, which handles our league scoring, has a 7 day waiting period before traded players can be used for their new teams. I think that's bunk, so, should any of the involved teams want to play one of their newly acquired players, I will track those stats separately. that means that the numbers that would show up on Yahoo! might not be exactly accurate for each team, which is okay because I already forgot to enter a Week 1 lineup for Team STY and forgot to make a change for The Dragons in Week 3. If I can track some things separately for 2 teams, I can do it for a couple of more.

Now, for some background on the trade. It was kind of like a real life trade. Some idle conversation about one team not liking options on the free agent market led to a whimsical proposal. Once that proposal was accepted, another team decided they wanted to get involved. This led to numerous phone calls between Elk Grove, Land Park, West Sacramento, and Ames until, finally at around 9:00 a deal was struck. Even then, though, a team was threatening to blow the whole thing up, just because of something one of the other owners said. It was like an actual football front office in the base of operations for our little fake league!