[RedinTexas]

I've found a way to manipulate the PFN simulator in trades. When proposing a trade the simulator demands a stiff premium and discounts future picks pretty heavily. When the simulator proposes the trade it assumes the premium should go to me, but it doesn't always offer a nice premium. The underlying assumption about who deserves a premium in the trade is still there though.

Furthermore, if you try to counter-offer on the trade the simulator does not delete the original trade offer when it declines your counter-offer. So, you can make many counter-offers as you slowly step up the amounts until you find something the simulator will accept.

Additionally, since the simulator appears to discount future picks pretty heavily, you can make some nice trade-ups in future picks, eg trading a future KC 3rd for the opponent's future 2nd. On top of that it doesn't much mind making trades for future picks in the same round, so when trading with a team that should be worse than the Chiefs, it's easy to add in a KC 1st for their 1st. It looks to me like moving up in next year's draft, but apparently looks to the simulator like a break even deal.

ETA - Yeah, swapping picks in the same round appears to be no problem for the simulator. I was able to trade away all of KC's draft picks in 2026 to Seattle and NYG in exchange for theirs. I ended up with only KC's 7th round pick, but I have the Giants picks in the first 6 rounds. It seems like a pretty significant tradeup to me, but the simulator didn't seem to care.