Saturday, October 5, 2024

S61 Owner Trading Tiers

Catherine Trammell - contributing reporter

While we are creating tiers, let's do one for how often an owner is to make a trade. Also including how many trades that owner has made in up to the last 10 season. Kept the tiers in alphabetical order. 

  • Tier 1 
    • Atlanta (ekoontz41) - 43 trades
      • Everybody receives at least 5 offers a year from this year, you knew he'd be on top. 
    • Houston (rawdk27) - 37
      • No wonder Houston has a space station, always shipping people out!
    • Tucson (foolsgold79) - 60
      • Only dates back to S54 but the most active trade partners out there. Thought about putting him in his own tier. 
  • Tier 2
    • Colorado Springs (topoftheworl) - 25
      • Winning or Less, always up for a trade
    • Scottsdale (minihouston) - 26
      • Includes his days in New Orleans from 51-54. Would likely be up there in Tier 1 if he wasn't gone from S55-59
  • Tier 3
    • Chicago (slashtc) - 18
      • The true gunslinger, that keeps you on your toes - never know what he's going to do. 
    • Jacksonville (rwings1927) - 17
      • Delayed start but has been very active. 
    • New Orleans (SenorPloppie) - 28
      • Remove his trades with foolsgold (30% of his deals) and he's a lot less active on the trade market. Includes the three S51 & 52 deals he made while in charge of the (now) Mexico City franchise. 
    • Tacoma (mcandrews) - 26
      • Loves a good trade with Atlanta. 
    • Vancouver (daubs2334) - 24
      • Canada loves trading for all things American!
  • Tier 4
    • Augusta (jsapp12) - 13
      • As the team comes out of a build, I'd expect some more trades as the team is rounded out for that playoff push. 
    • Buffalo (bjc30) - 14
      • 8 since S59 when he was selling off parts.
    • Fargo - (nickzaji) - 4
      • Give it time, only his second season but we think he'll be active. 
    • Hartford (jverrier85) - 14
      • Can't speak for how many offers are sent, but doesn't make a ton of deals. Middle of the pack sounds about right. 
    • Mexico City (dakar) - 11
      • Only 3 deals prior to this year. Start of a new trend? For now he'll stay ranked low. Might fall into the only trades at start or end of a build. 
    • Montreal (FW_Kekionga) - 15
      • Don't count them out on any trade. 
  • Tier 5
    • Anaheim (goldenbaer88) - 15
      • Not afraid to trade / trade for a big name. 
    • Columbus (mike22182) - 15
      • Bumps this low because majority have been in two seasons, one he was selling and the other became a buyer. 
    • Dover (drichter) - 7
      • More so in recent years, but you gotta catch him at the right time. 
    • Helena (alanharwell) - 13
      • Streaky, majority of the last 10 seasons were in S52 and 59.
    • Huntington (cwiddoes) - 13
      • Trading seemed a right of passage, didn't really start until a few season into the league minus the initial new owner I have no attachment to these players. 
    • Oklahoma City (klown61455) - 17
      • Feels like 8 of those deals involved Shea Crowe, but kidding aside active but on the low end. Noticed a lot of 3 for 1 deals. 
    • Philadelphia (TheManUtley) - 10
      • I'd put them on the second tier of talent they trade, but could be wrong. 
    • Salem (staeben) - 11
      • Had a quite spell on the trade market but as the team becomes a favorite in the NL West, they've started making moves. 
    • Washington DC (keltic44) - 8
      • Took over in S55, but good for close to a trade a year. 
  • Tier 6
    • Charleston (opie5) - 3
      • Not likely to make many moves. 
    • Boston (CollegeBoy33) - 3
      • Seems to like 3s, could he be done trading?
    • Austin (norsk44) - 2
      • Stick with what you got is the story in Austin. 
    • Minnesota (cmcrhstians) - 9
      • Only 2 deals since S53. 
    • Santa Fe - buddy996 - 0 
      • Former owner went from S38-51 without any trades. New Owner by his words is only a temp, so not likely to make any deals
  • Unrated - too little history
    • New York - arfy
    • Cincinnati - WallyRez

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

S61 IFA Spending Tiers

Jessica Fletcher - contributing reporter

The Cobbfather owners love spending on the international market, let's break the teams into tiers for available prospect money. We've tried to keep in mind teams who have higher draft picks and will need to save a little for the Rule 4 draft versus the others who might be only spending on IFA this year. Listed teams in alphabetical order by their tier. 

  • Tier 1 
    • Buffalo
    • Colorado Springs
    • New York
  • Tier 2
    • Fargo
  • Tier 3
    • Atlanta
    • Chicago
    • Hartford
    • Vancouver
  • Tier 4
    • Augusta
    • Montreal
    • Scottsdale
    • Washington DC
  • Tier 5
    • Mexico City (already signed one IFA for $6.1M - this accounts his remaining budget)
    • Charleston
  • Tier 6
    • Austin
    • Jacksonville
  • Tier 7
    • Anaheim
    • Boston
    • Cincinnati
    • Dover
    • New Orleans
    • Oklahoma City
    • Philadelphia
    • Santa Fe
    • Salem
    • Tucson
  • Tier 8 
    • Columbus
    • Helena
    • Houston
    • Huntington
    • Minnesota
    • Tacoma