Combining Trade Exceptions

[answerthink]

I can't provide definitive answers as to why the rules are the way they are (other than to say that they are as agreed between the parties). I can only try to explain how the rules work. Hopefully I have helped in doing so here.

[Curmudgeon]

Yes, you've been very helpful. Thanks. Just took me some time to parse the contract language.

In the non-simultaneous scenario, a team is already limited because it can take back only 100% of the salaries going out instead of 125%. Given that limitation, it seems to me that a team ought to be able to do in a non-simultaneous trade what it could have done in a simultaneous trade.

I suppose the rule as it exists restricts player movement in a small way, but who does that help (or hurt) really? I can't see why either side would have bargained for this restriction.