Professor What
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As per @VanIslander 's comment in the discussion thread, GMs vote here whether to allow trading or not.
As we discussed in the other thread, that's what my yes vote stands for as well.Trading yes, trading players no.
No trade drafts have always been boring.
Completely dependent on the fate of how the board plays out.
Learned helplessness.
You need that powerforward LWer and only a few left on the board? Just pray. Nothing you can do.
I think it's boring if you do it year after year. I honesty can't remember the last time we had a no trade draft. While the earliest rounds are generally pretty static as far as where players go, you do get more variance as the draft moves on past say rounds 5/6.
Again, I think there is some strategy to not being able to trade after years of being able to to do so. It will change the premium on certain players/styles, possibly causing some reaches or players falling.
Again, I think for me, I'd like to see 1 year of no trades this go around, and then move back into the realm of being able to trade picks only in 2024 and beyond, as adding players to the mix does seem to create some contentious moments.
I hope the fact that we should impose a prohibition in perpetuity on the trading of players is not lost because we have instituted a no-trade draft this year. I fear that it will be.
I'll repeat myself once more. We should never, ever, again allow drafted players to be traded.