Pirate Tradecenter

As a former Parity GM and current owner of a new peg leg, I’ve always enjoyed the trade cap weeks. So I thought I would share some predictions as to which GM will be forced to make their players walk the plank to shed some of that league cap gold. I have to preface my predictions with the fact that I have not discussed with any of the GMs, seen any of the games or even knowing who is the GM of Idol Hands.

So there are the sellers, namely Pew-Pew and In-bound throws to Frisbee pro’s (hereby named “pros) who were much too proficient in kicking butt. Plus Monster Peninsula which did not win a game, but has to sell a couple players. Then Wowzer’s who won both their games yet somehow is only a 3.4k above the cap.

Pew-Pew
There salaries seem to be inflated since Allan and Jim seem to be catching Jessie’s throws. In another turn of events that wasn’t seen in the first session, Geofford seemingly remembered that he is good at ultimate and put up great numbers his first two weeks. All the other players on the team are just being overall solid and keeping turnovers to a minimum. So now Jessie has to cut 163k of salary. So basically everyone will be on the trading block. I think she will look to move Christine Beals, who has a nice big salary despite not having played a game yet. However, Jessie still has to make a few moves on top of that to even come close to cap, so she may be saying goodbye to Simon, Jim and Nick. I feel Allan is safe for now, since Heather has no cap space to buy him back for a ridiculous price.

Pros
The pros will be looking to move their whale Mike Lee. They were able to win without him last week, so this would be the easiest way to get within the cap space. Perhaps he’ll go to Strangely Charmed for Jon Rowe. Unfortunately, the pros will lose their pro and must change their team name.

Strangely Charmed

They should get Mike Lee so he can carry the team with all his glorious talent. #bestlee

OB throws

They got some cap space, so they may look to upgrade a couple guys. Probably move Barford to Pew and pick up one of their big salary guys. Brian only cares about offence, so look for him to make a move for someone that can catch all his swill, probably Jim since I reckon Jessie will keep Allan and Geofford might decrease the amount Brian gets to touch the disc.

Monster

They are sitting 24k above the cap. Al is willing to trade most people. Look for him to move one or two of his top salaries on his team to Idol hands. One fair trade I can see him pushing is Lumley for Hodgson. However, I think Idol Hands will veto this since Owen is awesome and very affordable at 60k. So Al will settle to give Tim for Briggs. Then move a bit more salary by moving Michael Wong or parity journeyman Jamie Wildgen.

Teaching Idol

No trade necessary. Mehmet will help someone out with a trade if necessary, but don’t expect much of a roster shake up.

Wowzer’s

They only got to make a small move to be within cap, so will be looking for Ben or Jon to be on the chopping block. I could also see Sully moving Neena (who has yet to play), but don’t know who would take her salary (Idol hands?).

Idol Hands

I’m guessing this team is gonna play a bit of hardball and look to move their two guys who have yet to play. Namely Rob Tyson and Ryan Briggs. Briggs enjoys being traded before he plays a game at the start of the session which he did twice in session 1. So would be nice to meet his wishes and keep this trend going. Although I see Pros, Monster and Pew-Pew offering many different offers to get Lumley or Laura Storey.