2K21 MyLeague: Ways to make trading more challenging?

[assist726]

I've been playing 2k since 2k12 and basically every year with MyLeague with trade difficulty at 100 you always end up with a championship team within 3 years.

A few main issues I see with the current trade logic now:

1. Way too easy to dump any salary, you can get off any bad player for picks and then have double max space in your 2nd season
2. Vet min role players signed can be trade for 1-2 first round picks, where you end up with a crazy stockpile of picks. You can also go through two rounds of this per season if you sign them during free agency and during the season dump them all for picks and sign some more free agents to trade away
3. Certain players are always undervalued by the CPU such as Mitchell Robinson or Clint Capela last year, you end up with a few mid 80 rated players on the cheap

Assuming 2K isn't gonna rehaul their trade logic anytime soon, was looking for some suggestions on some arbitrary limitations to make the game more interesting. Perhaps something like limiting to x trades per year or not allowing to trade for picks?
I've also considered just setting the hard cap very low seeing as the CPU never really goes over the cap by much but you can still build a pretty stacked team on mostly rookie contracts.

[eraserx13]

I had to resort to some house rules so I do not make an overpowered team. Before I did, I was on pace to have a few perfect seasons of 82-0. Here are some of my house rules:

When trading away my player for draft picks, I can receive at most only the following:

Give a B+ Potential Talent = Receive 2nd Round Pick in any of 1-4 years out or 1st Round 5 years out (which ever the CPU offers)
A- Potential Talent = 1st Round + 2nd Round
A = 1st Round x 2
A+ = 1st Round x 3

If the player is over 30 or if he is in the last year of his contract before UFA (Not RFA), then drop the compensation by 1 tier. So for example, a A+ player who is entering year 7 and about to become an UFA in the following, the most I can receive is 1 Round x 2.