Below are the MSD, trade and delisting dates and details:
Dates:
- Trade Period opened: at the end of Round 9.
- Delistings & Trade Deadline: Monday 20th May 2100 AWST.
- Release of the final MSD Draft order: likely by Tuesday 21st May by 1100 AWST
- 2024 MSD: Tuesday 21st May at 2000 AWST
- Post MSD Trade Period Opens: as soon as the MSD ends
- Post MSD Trade Period Ends: at the start of AFL Round 12 (when the main bye rounds begin)
Details:
- Delistings should be submitted on this Delistings Sheet
- Trades should be submitted in the Bench Banter section
- MSD Draft Order (provisional, subject to trades/delistings) can be seen in our 2024 Drafts sheet (to be completed post completion of R9)
- All trades made are final at the time the trade (unless both coaches agree otherwise). So if you trade after R9 and your player traded is then injured in Round 10, that’s too bad.
- Draft Day Injury allowance: late delistings will be allowed for players who are reported in the Tuesday 21st May AFL injury lists (draft day) as having a medium to long term injury – a coach can apply to Logistix to make a late delisting that day. If application granted, they will receive an extra pick at the very end of the MSD.
- Squad Sizes Increase by 2: squad sizes increase from 21 to 23 at the MSD to help coaches manage the bye rounds. So even if you delist no one, you will still have 2 picks at the MSD.
- Good Faith, “Fair Value” Trading
- Trades should be made in good faith and be “approximate fair value” based on value in the current season.
- The value of players who may be retained in future seasons is not taken into account in this assessment e.g. if coaches trade a young average player (who may become a great player in the future) for an established great player in a straight swap, that would be deemed to be not approximate fair value.
- There is wide allowance given in the determination of approximate fair value. However trades that are clearly one-sided that appear to unreasonably advantage one team or make one team uncompetitive may be declared as “nefarious trades” and disallowed by the Administrator.