Trade Approval

As many of you may have noticed, we have a new automated Trade Approval process in place this year.

When Trades are consummated on the CBS Sportsline website, the following notice is sent out to the league:

Team X and Team Awesome have agreed to the following trade: Player Q for Player R.

According to your league rules, you may vote to approve or object to this trade. If 4 owners object before 1 days pass, the trade will go to the commissioner for a final ruling. Otherwise the trade will go through.

You may then go to the Trade Review page and vote. You are certainly not required to vote. Abstaining is the same as approving. However, if there are 4 or more objections to the deal, the trade is forwarded to the Commissioners for review. The Commissioners will review the pertinent details then make a ruling.

In the event one of the Commissioners is involved in a trade that has received 4 or more objections, the other Commissioner will act as the sole Commissioner for the ruling. In the event both Commissioners are involved in a trade, the owner lowest in the standings (based on W/L record, tie breaker to the team with lowest yearly point total to date) who is not involved in the trade will act as Acting Commissioner and rule for the trade in dispute only.

If 24 hours elapse without 4 or more objections, the trade is automatically processed.

Since this is an automated process, if you make trades in person, over the telephone, over IM, or over email, you must officially consummate the trade via Sporstline. Sportsline is responsible for sending out an announcement of the deal.

An exception to this is any trade involving draft picks. A glitch in the CBS Sporstline system doesn't allow for automated trade review of any trades involving picks. As such, the old rules will apply. Any deal involving draft picks must be manually announced to the league and is still subject to a 24-hour approval process. Objections to trades involving draft picks should be registered via the league's message board. Even if Sporstline registers a deal involving draft picks as consummated, the deal is NOT OFFICIAL until 24 hours after the participants post a message. Again, this only involves trades which include draft picks.

Please be aware that if you would like to receive notice of all pending trades that need your vote, you need to go to the email alert page to review your email settings. Make sure "All League Trades" is checked.

If you would prefer not to receive an email each time a trade is up for vote, it is incumbent on you to periodically check to see if there are any transactions in need of approval. Only YOU can prevent unfair trades.