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Originally Posted by ChiefRon

I like Mecca's response to a similar suggestion from another thread

"I don't think you can even do that in Madden"

The practice was brought into vogue by former Cowboys head coach Jimmy Johnson, who came up with the value system as his Cowboys engineered some of the best trades in the late 1980s and early 1990s as they were building the closest thing to a dynasty that the NFL has seen the past two decades.

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Following these player-draft pick deals, Dallas was then able to maneuver up or down the draft, confident it could not only unearth diamonds in the rough lower in the draft but also package extra picks to move up and get the player it wanted. Johnson’s chart was devised from studying the value of trades over a period of 10 years. Johnson’s research must have paid off: He made 55 trades in five years.

http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW...holm042403.htm