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Hi there! I'm Sean. I created Trade Fox and maintain it by myself (for now?). Let's talk about Trade Fox, fantasy football, engineering, and much more!
To empower fantasy football players with tools and a community to understand the implications of trades in their league.
I aim for Trade Fox to become the preferred spot for analyzing and getting feedback on trades in your fantasy football league. Obviously, Trade Fox has a long way to go in order to achieve this goal. Regardless, I hope the existing state of Trade Fox can help leagues understand trades in their league!
I joined a new dyntasy league on Sleeper back in 2021. This was my first serious league in quite a long time, with bylaws, a hefty prize pool, and experienced leaguemates.
We took trades pretty seriously. Sometimes, a bit too seriously. Many of my leaguemates were obsessed with a trade analysis tool called KeepTradeCut. We would basically only accept trades if KeepTradeCut said it was a fair trade, and we would plug trades into KeepTradeCut in order to test if trades were breaking the collusion bylaws. It was also just fun to see who won or lost the trade.
Of course, this is where Trade Fox came in. I created a quick script to constantly check our league for new trades. Whenever a new trade occurred, the script would convert the trade into a KeepTradeCut link and post it in the league chat. Boom, we could instantly analyze new trades in our league.
Well, that was 2021. So where was Trade Fox the past 2 years? It didn't exist. I just wasn't smart or skilled enough to build something like Trade Fox back then.
Fast forward to Summer 2023, despite still being dumb I decided to turn Trade Fox into a real, free thing that other leagues could use (powered by FantasyCalc).
I've been playing fantasy football for about a decade now. I'm still pretty bad, but I really enjoy it.
I'm excited to get to work on Trade Fox, be closer with fantasy football, and give something back to the community!
Additionally, check out Trade Fox on Twitter if you wish to follow my terrible Fantasy Football commentary.
Outside of fantasy football, I'm a software engineer who builds websites. I've been coding since I was about 12 years old. Sadly, I haven't really built anything useful since I was 12 years old when my Minecraft plugin got a few downloads.
That said, I'm looking forward to continuously enhancing Trade Fox! I have lots of exciting ideas planned that I think could turn Trade Fox into a fun staple in the fantasy football community. Stay tuned!