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332953.1
Date: 8/29/2026 1:40:36 PM
New York Blaze
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BuzzerBeater really needs to add player-to-player trades and a true free agency market to make the game feel like actual basketball management. Right now, the only way to shift your roster is through the transfer list auction or the draft, which completely cuts out the best part of being a GM: negotiating. Letting managers trade players, packaging draft picks, or matching salaries directly with each other would create a much more active and competitive community. Adding free agents with custom contract demands would also force you to balance your finances properly, rather than just winning an auction because you have the deepest pockets. Adding these two features would make the mobile game way more immersive, realistic, and honestly, just a lot more fun to play every day.

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332953.2 in reply to 332953.1
Date: 8/29/2026 1:55:56 PM
New York Blaze
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Also they should add it so that fired players are free agents and trades can include picks in the draft

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332953.4 in reply to 332953.1
Date: 9/3/2026 9:58:01 AM
Dortmund Miners
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Theoretically a nice idea that simply will not work in reality. It might create a better game feeling. But same time it would for sure create the perfect possibility for multi account cheating...

From: Aedon

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332953.5 in reply to 332953.1
Date: 9/6/2026 9:10:53 AM
Golden Saucer Chocobos
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Curious to how you could make trading picks work.

I can only scout my draft class. Say I get a draft pick from someone in Croatia. Then do I need to split scouting points on their draft class? Do I gain their scouting access knowledge? There’s too many moving parts like that even ignoring the degree to which it increases likelihood of cheating, or transfer market manipulation, or farming, or multi-accounting.

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332953.6 in reply to 332953.5
Date: 9/8/2026 2:49:43 AM
Legion X
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Curious to how you could make trading picks work.

I can only scout my draft class. Say I get a draft pick from someone in Croatia. Then do I need to split scouting points on their draft class? Do I gain their scouting access knowledge? There’s too many moving parts like that even ignoring the degree to which it increases likelihood of cheating, or transfer market manipulation, or farming, or multi-accounting.


The only way that makes sense would be to auction them off.

Lord of All the Beasts, Fishes & Hoes in the Milky Way aka Drip God from Vienna
From: Aedon

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332953.7 in reply to 332953.6
Date: 9/8/2026 10:13:53 AM
Golden Saucer Chocobos
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At which point now we have to arbitrarily come up with a “value” for draft picks.