Here's the deal: between now and the draft, you can trade any of your keeper rights to another owner for any of their keeper rights. Here are the rules:
(1) You can only trade the keeper rights of a keepable player (meaning a player on the list of keepable players here).
(2) Once you engineer a trade between you and another owner(s), all owners involved will send me an email saying they agree to the trade. After receiving those confirmations, I will send an email to the league. This email to the league is the equivalent of clicking the "Accept Trade" button during the season -- the trade is binding at that point. The only way the trade doesn't go through at that point is . . .
(3) . . . if, during the next week-long review period, a majority of the remaining league members vote against the trade. This works the same way as during the season as well (meaning you should vote "nay" only if you suspect collusion and unethical behavior, like Alan offering the rights to Ronnie Brewer and a case of beer under the table to Chris for his rights to Danny Granger).
(4) Exactly one week after my league-wide email announcing the trade (based on the timestamp of that email), the trade becomes final, and the rights are swapped.
(5) All trades must be finalized before the Off-Season Trade Deadline (meaning the week-long review period must end before the Deadline). Coincidentally, this is the same deadline as the Keeper Declaration Deadline, which is two weeks before the draft. It's real simple, kids: if you want to keep a player that's not on your team, you have to acquire that player's rights so you can declare him a keeper. You can't declare him a keeper after the Keeper Declaration Deadline. So, you better get that trade done three weeks before the draft, at the latest.
One more ground rule: these trades can only involve the keeper rights to playas. You can't trade draft picks, beer, baseball cards, or anything else of value in conjuction with these trades. Other than that, have at it: you can do 2-for-1 deals or 3-for-4 deals; you can engineer three-team mega-swaps; whatever. Each team has different assets and different strategies, so it should prove fertile for trades. I'll be disappointed if nobody wheels and deals this off-season.
