Have you ever wanted to build your own projected NBA trade, share it with a friend and have your friend approve -- or deny -- it? Well, now you can do that with thousands of "friends" on ESPN Digital.
ESPN Analytics is unveiling its new NBA Trade Lab, an interactive web application for fans to build, save and vote on mock trades. The tool includes several new features that differentiate it from ESPN's NBA trade machine, including:
• Trade builder: Build, validate and save your own trades in accordance with all current collective bargaining agreement (CBA) rules for other users to vote on. Can you build the perfectly balanced trade that fans of the teams involved would accept?
• Trade swiper: Act as the general manager of your favorite team by voting on trades submitted by other users that involve that team. Swipe right to accept, swipe left to reject.
• Trade viewer: View and filter the full leaderboard of top fan-submitted trades, sorted by highest mutual acceptance rate between all involved teams. Find out the most realistic trade frameworks for your favorite team to acquire the missing player ahead of its playoff push.
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What you can find within NBA Trade Lab
AUTO-COMPLETE TRADE: Click this button within the trade builder to immediately generate a random trade. It will keep any players or picks already added to the trade and then fill in additional players until it finds a CBA-valid trade. If the trade board is empty, it can also assemble a random trade from scratch.
NET POINTS PROFILES: Click any player card throughout the tool to pop up a view of their net points fingerprint, where you can see each player's overall impact profile broken down across a variety of categories and skills.
MULTITEAM DEALS: When voting in the trade swiper on deals involving three or more teams, the trade view is limited to only what the team you select is sending and receiving. Make the evaluation of complicated multiteam deals much simpler by looking at it from the perspective of each team involved.
ARCHIVED TRADES: Submitted deals get "archived" and moved out of the pool of vote-eligible submissions once they are no longer valid because of subsequent transactions, or when sufficient votes have come in showing that the trade is severely unbalanced.
SALARY CAP & APRON GLOSSARY: At the bottom of the trade builder, you can find a full glossary that explains the definitions of various CBA-related terminology that is used throughout the tool.
FEEDBACK: Find a bug, or a rule that doesn't work? Let us know via the "feedback" button found on the trade builder page.
DATA & DISCLAIMER: Salary and contract data is maintained daily by ESPN Insider Bobby Marks. CBA rules and contracts change, so trade validity also might change.
Mock trades and votes are fan-made, meaning they don't reflect any team's plans or reporting, and no trade shown is a real deal.
