Trades Overview

What the trade system does

NeonSportz records a proposed trade, calculates configured values, collects agreement and votes, and stores a decision. It does not execute the roster move inside Madden.

Use:

• Create, Agree, Vote, and Decide Trades
• Trade Settings and Value Formula

Trade pages

• League Trades: pending, approved, and denied requests.
• Trade Counts: stored trade activity by team/member.
• Trade Block: players owners marked available.
• Create: build a new proposal.
• Individual Trade: assets, values, agreement, votes, and decision controls.

NeonSportz permissions

• Create A Trade: submit proposals.
• Vote On Trade: vote when workflow/settings allow.
• Force A Trade: use commissioner override.
• Edit League/Admin: edit trade settings.

Permissions are separate. An admin does not automatically represent the intent of an involved team; follow league policy.

Typical lifecycle

1. A permitted member creates a request.
2. Involved teams agree if agreement is required.
3. Eligible voters approve or deny.
4. Vote thresholds or a force decision determine status.
5. Discord receives configured pending/approved/denied messages.
6. Commissioners execute approved roster movement in Madden.
7. Rosters/free agents are imported so NeonSportz reflects the actual transaction.

Calculated values are advisory

Trade values depend on league-configured weights and imported player/contract data. They are not a promise of competitive balance and do not override league rules.

Weekly trade ratings

Commissioners with Edit League/Admin can open Administration → Members and give a joined member a 1–5 rating for a selected season, stage, and week. Saving again for the same member and period updates that one rating.

Pending trade details show each participant’s all-time average of these commissioner-entered ratings, rounded to one decimal, or Unrated when none exist. Ratings are league-local, are not calculated from games or trade values, and do not affect trade approval.

Trade Block

Team owners can toggle their own players on/off the block. Members with Edit League/Admin permission can manage any player in that league, including removing free-agent listings, from player profiles, rosters, and the Trade Block page. Administrator controls are labeled (administrator). The league-wide view supports filters such as player, team, position, age, speed, overall, development, value, ordering, and result count.

Trade Block status automatically turns off when an import records a team change, including trades, free-agent signings, releases, and players removed from a roster. Approving a trade on the website does not move the player; the reset happens when the roster change is imported. Repeated imports preserve status for players whose team has not changed, including free agents. Refresh the page after importing to see the current status.

Assigned team members and league editors can also add draft-pick advertisements from the team page. Each entry is a round plus either a specific selection or a target position. These manual listings are separate from Madden draft ownership, so imports do not replace them. They appear in the league Trade Block and /tradeblock on Discord.

Canonical draft-pick inventory

League editors can enter an Owned Draft Picks inventory on each team profile. Every record has a draft year, round, and selection, and is clearly separate from the manual Trade Block advertisements above. Madden’s current export does not provide draft-capital ownership, so this inventory is commissioner-maintained rather than imported.

Leave Enforce Commissioner Draft-Pick Inventory off until the commissioner has entered a complete authoritative inventory. While it is off, existing manual trade-pick entry works exactly as before. When it is on, trade offers must use currently available picks owned by the team offering them; retired and pending-reserved picks cannot be selected. Approved requests transfer ownership, making the pick available to its new owner. Trade forms support the next three draft years, matching existing valuation settings. League editors can mark an entry unavailable when it is no longer usable.

Pending reservations block commissioner corrections until the request is resolved. Any pick with transfer history keeps its year/round/selection identity. Approved pick transfers cannot be erased by deleting the trade request. Pending manual-pick requests from before enforcement must be resubmitted after the switch is enabled. An approved trade also cannot be deleted while the league’s seasonal value budget is enabled, because it records used allowance.

Use /tradeblock for Discord output. It includes manually advertised draft picks as well as players. Its team option accepts the team’s city, nickname, full name or abbreviation — Atlanta, Falcons, Atlanta Falcons and ATL all select the same team. When nothing comes back, the reply says whether the block is empty or the filters ruled everyone out.

Trade Counts

Counts include trades recorded through NeonSportz. A trade performed only in Madden will not appear as a NeonSportz trade request unless it was also recorded in the workflow.