[EricH]

Originally Posted by JosephC

I'm curious what makes the trade imbalanced. If we use the system that you proposed that isn't being used, just as an example of balance, of the +3/+2/+1/-1/-2/-3, it ends up being +2 weighted towards UT(+6 for TBC, +8 for UT).

Originally Posted by TDave, from the spreadsheet

In all previously approved trades, trading up in the first round also required trading down somewhere in the first round. While I do not think this is a requirement for every trade, the differences between the two second round trades do not outweigh trading into the second pick of this draft from the fourth. Therefore, I believe this trade is weighted in the obvious favor of Team 1

For a deep event, I think that this one would have passed. For a shallow event, like Southern Cross, I believe there's some concern that it's less balanced than straight numbers would think. Some metrics show it one way, some show it another way.

The other item here is that this is the second (third?) attempt at this trade, with different non-GKC events; on the first one it was noted that there seemed to be a possibility at an undisclosed trade down the line. I can't say that that's true or false, so I can't evaluate based on that.



Let's put it this way: It's really, really close. And I think it's worth reviewing in more depth. I'll put a final answer before GKC (won't be an hour before, unfortunately--work schedules--unless it's issued tonight). And obviously GKC won't proceed past the first pick until a final decision.