Why not hold off starting another new league/format for a little while until the other currently active leagues finish up or at least get half way through their seasons?

I think that part of it still needs some work. I honestly think you're better off letting people set up their trades on a separate thread/by PM and just accept that people will learn something about what pieces everyone else has. Honestly if someone is trying to trade a piece they probably won't mind if everyone knows they have it. It just seems like it will be a humongous pain for you and whoever else runs the league to sort through a pile of "trade forms" and try and pair them together. Plus, what if Adam fills out his form and says he wants to trade a TBSV for a Praetorite Vong Warrior, and someone else puts wants a TBSV and is willing to trade an Ossus Guardian? Probably Adam would be happy to make that trade, but if they both just mail you the forms neither will ever know.

Actually that is something that just puzzles me in general - why the emphasis on secrecy? Anyone can watch the other peoples' games on Vassal, and so far all of my games have been observed by a couple other people from the League (and I have watched other people's games too), and two separate people have listed half my squad on the results thread anyway ;) By the fourth week you can probably build 3 very different squads if you want so I don't think it matters that much. If someone wants to build a hate squad based on what they SUSPECT their opponent will play, let them take that risk.

The trade restrictions on VRs also don't make much sense to me. A lot of the VRs are not that great compared to the best rares, especially in the older sets. For every Whorm Loathsome there are three C3P0, Ewok Diety's. In fact, why put any restrictions in at all? Let people propose any trade they want, and approve or disprove of all the "pending" trades once per week. That way, the league basically has three "events" - one game, one getting a new booster, and one day to see what trades went through. Some people might try to game the system with one-sided trades, but that can happen no matter how you set it up.

My last exam is on the 1st of June. After then I would totally be up for joining in, if you find yourself being delayed until then.

If not, I can only hope for a summer bloomilk league. (hint hint)

I have to agree bigtime with greentime.
Trading would have to be all in the open if it were to occur.
I also agree that you learn a lot more about your opponent's squad when you are watching them play others in vassal than when you are looking at what they want to trade or trade for.
You mention the fact that people get new boosters every week as an argument against open trading, yet I see it as more of an arguement for it.
Also, this doesn't make anyone feel like bantha poodoo for not having the time/inclination to trade what they pulled in their boosters. One of the best things about the booster league is that you can just play one game a week, and you are done with it (time-wise). You aren't penalized for just spending 2 hours a week on SWM.

Just my 2cents

i really want to get into a booster league when one starts. and agree that trading should be open, because the people have said you learn more by watching the game on vassel then knowing what people want to get rid of.

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like yeah everyone can list who is on the tradeing block. Do we really need to list our wants when you can view what is aviable? So we list 3 new players every week? I do not really agree with the veto thing. Yes it is done on fantasy football. But here i don't really see the point with have a limit of one trade a week, do you loose that trade if you don't use it or it gets vetoed and you don't have enough time to make up another one? on the other hand in fantasy football you can do as many as you want, but i don;t think it occurrs that often at least not in any that i have played. Here i can see people makeing lots of trades in theory, since pieces you won't use have no value to use so you might just trade just to do it. Fantasy football if a player has no value to you they probabb;y own't have much if any to your oppoent unles they over value that position or player or something, also the type of league you play in makes a big difference. in fantasy football i think it is really hard to make a even trade with out one side getting at least a little more from the trade. Here a piece can have no value to you but has value to your oppoent. i don't really trade in fantasy football, i just do not see it as fun, generally one side ends up with the better deal. Here i would trade to the max. See that I will never use the pieces that i trade anyway. By tradeing to the max ideally for pieces with more than zero value to you, if that is not possiable than trying to get pieces with more value than the ones you are giveing away to put back into the open market down the road.

Well a nightmare to you dont mean it would be a nightmare to me, I have plenty of time on my hands to go through all the stuff & im gonna dedicated myself to this league as well as the other BMBL 100% to where im gonna use my time to do so... if you think it will be a nightmare then dont join, noone is forcing you to join. So far i have about 16 deff players who like how this league will be. Dont worry about me giving up my time, im willing to do it... So if you dont like these league rules or dont wanna join, then dont join plain & simple... Your arent planning on joing anyway TJ.. so i dont even understand why you would post that.. If you dont like the rules make your own league & have players join that...