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Trade Finder

The Trades tab on the My Team page answers the question the rest of the app doesn’t: “Who do I even approach, and with what?” It scans every roster in your league and proposes specific, mutually-beneficial trades — pairing your category surplus against a rival’s deficit, and vice-versa.

Every proposal is one click from the AI Trade Verdict, so you can grade and share it before you ever message another manager.

How It Works

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The Trade Finder builds each proposal from three tests. Only offers that pass all three surface:

  1. Category complementarity. It compares your projected category totals against the league average to find where you’re strong and where you’re weak — then looks for a partner with the mirror-image profile. You need what they have a surplus of; they need what you can spare.

  2. Concrete players. From the partner’s surplus it picks a real, tradeable player who embodies the category you need (and symmetrically picks the player you can afford to send). It builds 1-for-1 packages first, then 2-for-1 and 2-for-2 to balance value.

  3. A fairness filter. A package is only shown when the two sides’ value is within a tolerance band. Lopsided “steals” are filtered out — these are offers a real manager might actually accept. Player value here is current-form-aware: a consensus ranking eased toward the player’s actual current-season production (weighted by league format and season progress), so a slumping star is valued for how he’s playing now, not his preseason billing. Players without enough of a sample fall back to pure consensus.

Crucially, both teams’ category outlook must improve for a proposal to appear. Nothing one-sided is ever surfaced.

The Trade Finder also respects injuries: it will never propose that you receive a player who is on the 60-day IL or otherwise out for the season, so you’re never offered an unavailable player.

Reading a Proposal Card

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Each card shows:

  • You send → You get — the concrete players on each side, with consensus ranks.
  • Category gains — which categories you improve, and which the partner improves.
  • A value-balance chip — “Even value” when the two sides line up, or who comes out slightly ahead.
  • Rationale — a one-sentence pitch for why the deal works. When it carries a small ✨ sparkle icon, the sentence was written by AI with the full context of both rosters; without the icon it’s a templated summary of the category math. (AI rationales require the server to have an Anthropic API key configured — without one, the templated version appears and nothing else changes.)
  • Grade this trade — opens the AI Trade Verdict flow pre-filled with both player sets. Generate a verdict, then share it.

Only fantasy team names are ever shown — never manager real names.

Redraft vs. Dynasty & Keeper

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The Trade Finder is format-aware:

  • Redraft leagues match purely on category needs and value. Player age and long-term outlook are ignored — the only question is who gets more rest-of-season production.
  • Dynasty and keeper leagues add a competitive-window term on top of category matching. Proposals that align each team with its window — a contender receiving win-now production while shipping youth to a rebuilder — are rewarded and flagged with a Window-matched badge. This uses the same window scores as the State of the League index.

Notes

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  • Proposals are computed on demand from your league’s current rosters and projections. If rosters or projections have just changed, give the data a moment to refresh.
  • The search is bounded to the best-fitting trade partners for speed; when it’s bounded, the tab notes how many partners were searched.
  • No trades found? That’s normal — it means there’s no roughly-fair, mutually-beneficial deal available right now, not that no trade is possible. Check back after the next roster or projection update.
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