Best Trades
What are Best Trades?
Best Trades evaluates every trade in your league's history by measuring the net LAMAR each side gained or lost. Each manager's side of a trade is scored independently: the LAMAR produced by the assets they received, minus the LAMAR produced by the assets they gave away.
How trades are scored
Net LAMAR
For each side of a trade:
Net LAMAR = LAMAR of Players Received (while managed) - LAMAR of Players Given Away (rest of season)
The received players are measured by their managed LAMAR — only the value they produced while on the acquiring manager's roster. The given-away players are measured by their total rest-of-season LAMAR, regardless of who ends up with them.
This means a trade can be evaluated from both sides simultaneously. One manager might gain +80 Net LAMAR while the other loses -80, making it a lopsided deal. Or both sides might gain value if they traded players who better fit each other's roster needs.
Trade quality tiers
| Net LAMAR | Rating |
|---|---|
| > 100 | Elite Win |
| 50 to 100 | Great Win |
| 20 to 50 | Good Win |
| 0 to 20 | Small Win |
| 0 | Even |
| -20 to 0 | Small Loss |
| -50 to -20 | Bad Loss |
| < -50 | Major Loss |
Season and career trade rankings
| Metric | Definition |
|---|---|
| Total Net LAMAR | Sum of net LAMAR from all trades in a season |
| Trade Efficiency | Average net LAMAR per trade |
| Win Rate | Percentage of trades with positive net LAMAR |
| Most Lopsided Trade | Trade with the largest absolute difference between the two sides |
| Most Even Trade | Trade with the smallest absolute difference between the two sides |
How Best Trades differs from Best Transactions
Best Transactions covers waiver wire and free agent adds/drops — moves where one player is picked up from the available pool. Best Trades covers deals between managers where assets are exchanged directly.
The scoring methodology is similar (both use rest-of-season managed LAMAR), but trades are inherently two-sided. Every trade has a winner and a loser (or both sides win), and the system tracks both perspectives.
Cross-season tracking
Trade performance is tracked across all seasons. Career trade rankings reveal which managers consistently come out ahead in deals, and which ones have a pattern of giving up more value than they receive. Multi-year win rate and total net LAMAR show the long-term trade tendencies that single-season snapshots miss.
See your league's trade history
Import your league for free to see every trade in your league's history scored and graded — with both sides of every deal evaluated independently.
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