Trade History

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Every completed trade in league history, with both sides listed. Deals are in the order they were filed, which means a busy week reads as a busy week and a quiet month is visible as a gap.

74 trades are on file. Each row names the two franchises and what each one received; dates are printed as the ledger recorded them. Nothing has been netted out or summarised — a three-player deal appears with all three players, and a trade of free-agent budget appears as a trade, because budget is an asset in this league and moves like one.

What the ledger is useful for is calibration rather than gossip. It shows which managers trade in season and which only talk in the week before a draft, what a bench player actually returns once the other side has a hole to fill, and how often a deal in one sport was financed out of another sport’s budget. Names are printed as each entry filed them; where a franchise changed hands between cycles, the ledger keeps the name that was current on the day of the deal rather than back-dating the new one.

One deliberate omission: no deal is graded. A trade that looks one-sided on the day it was filed often reads differently once the season it was made for has finished, and a verdict added afterwards would tell you more about hindsight than about the market. The ledger records what happened; the pages in the trades section are where the reading goes.