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Originally Posted by chiefscafan
Fine I'll keep the pick then no way am I trading first for a third and fourth
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Yeah, the challenge in a game like this is that if you know exactly who is being drafted at what pick, you can get much more value out of your picks. For example, if you would draft a guy at #23 and you know for a fact that he will be there at #30, you can trade down at market value and pick up an extra pick in the process. In real life, you don't know the guy will be available at #30, so if you value him you won't trade down. So we have to eliminate the exploitation of having perfect knowledge.
If we made trades before the NFL draft, perhaps we could do it at market value without the discount because the perfect knowledge isn't there yet. I think we talked about that at some point and decided that it wasn't worth having to monitor when trades occurred. But even then, as patteeu mentioned, we don't have anyone monitoring the interests of the trading team, so we just shrugged and kept the post-NFL system.