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Several of us have been adding players to rosters throughout the draft, but I'm sure we've missed some. If we're missing a player that should be added let us know and we'll get them added. Double check the correct salaries, too.
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As the 2019 auction winds down (and let me know if you plan to stop short of 40 players), it's time to talk 2020. If you recall, by joining this league you agreed to deposit money for 2020. The Ottoneu system should be working now to renew for 2020 and I'd love to see everyone do that now, pretty please!
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Gimme a shout if anyone's $ values are off please. Plan to add many more tonight
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The Experimentals 🔰's trade block has been updated!
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Reminder that we'll speed the auction up starting late Sunday / early Monday. Bumping noms to 3. Extension time limit drops from 24 hours to 12 hours (every auction will still run 24 hours at a minimum, but when a new high bid comes in that will extend the auction for 12 hours).
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 22, 2019 9:39 PM
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Adding players to rosters as they are won. Just double check to make sure the prices are correct.
Joey Has a Job on
February 20, 2019 10:33 AM
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woooo! 1 down *cracks open beer*, 799 more to go... cruisin
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AUCTION IS RUNNING!
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 18, 2019 2:14 PM
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Just waiting on one now (Teke's Aviators)!
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 18, 2019 9:33 AM
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No worries. I paused the auction until the last two gents join.
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 18, 2019 12:02 AM
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sorry for the late sign on, but I'm there now. I also was slow in seeing that the auction hadn't actually started and I threw "my" two players up. Commish, I'm betting you can just cancel those, and then I'll start when we are actually rolling. sorry 'bout that.
U St Unusuals on
February 17, 2019 11:17 PM
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Looks all but 4 managers have reached the auction. Let's try to get everyone in today! Let me know if you have an issue. The couchmangers interface is from 1999 so it's a little tricky.
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 17, 2019 9:11 AM
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Thanks for all for getting this show on the road so easily.
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In with no issues.
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Yep, works for me. All set.
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ps: the auction can't start until all 20 of us access couchmanagers auction: https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=76
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 16, 2019 10:52 PM
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I'm pretty sure I set the auction password to "1053" -- someone please confirm if that works or not
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 16, 2019 10:51 PM
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In terms of auction etiquette, please nominate no more than 2 players. The league has a 40 open auction cap so be polite and don't hog those. ;)
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 16, 2019 10:22 AM
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We're going to start the slow auction tomorrow, Sunday! Remember each nominated player will have a minimum of 24 hours before their auction closes... and when a new bid comes in, this extends this player's auction for another 24 hours. So even if you can't check the slow auction on Sunday, you won't miss out as long as you can check in by Monday. You can also set reserve bids on each player (think eBay).
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 16, 2019 10:18 AM
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Slack will help the league communicate much easier. You can find me on Slack at @luckystrikes. I've been playing Ottoneu for almost 10 years so happy to help if anyone needs anything. Thanks again to Charley for setting this all up for us.
Joey Has a Job on
February 15, 2019 9:10 PM
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League 1053, welcome. Thanks to Charley (Sabo) for putting this all together. Looking forward to getting it started and trailblazing the biggest league in Ottoneu history. For the league, I've setup a private league channel on Slack for our 20 owners; I've invited most of you already but some of you I cannot find on Slack, so if you don't have an invite, please send me a note with your Slack ID and/or email address so I can find you.
Joey Has a Job on
February 15, 2019 9:09 PM
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Any date is good with me to start.
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Okay got it to work. Thanks
ᵃᵇˢᵒˡᵘᵗᵉ ᵇᵘⁿᵗˢ on
February 15, 2019 10:05 AM
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Hey Wooden Badgers, surely you can type the URL into your phone: bit.ly/ottoneu -- there's already active debates inside the doc on these matters.
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 15, 2019 9:54 AM
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Hey all, sorry my phone won’t let me open the bitly link. Can we do a poll of whether to require second year dues through ottoneau? Also, what is the rationale behind no playoffs? Wouldn’t playoffs keep more teams engaged longer in this big of a league
ᵃᵇˢᵒˡᵘᵗᵉ ᵇᵘⁿᵗˢ on
February 15, 2019 9:23 AM
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Looks like we all want to start the slow auction asap. So what we need to take care of first is money. Do we want to have stakes for this league on top of Ottoneu dues? Please comment in the doc about the league settings: bit.ly/ottoneu
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 15, 2019 9:15 AM
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Same with me. The earlier the better, since it will obviously take some time.
Sleepy G 🛶 on
February 15, 2019 7:08 AM
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I did not do the Doodle yet but good with any day to start the slow auction
Joey Has a Job on
February 15, 2019 6:26 AM
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When the auction for a player you nominate has ended, you are able to nominate another player. I believe you could also shorten the rebid time if you wanted to. Say someone bid in the last hour, the timer would be shortened to a lesser time than 24 hours.
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Indeed, the proper etiquette is for each manager to nominate no more than 2 at a time.
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 14, 2019 3:17 PM
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So does that mean we would all get to nominate 2 at a time? or would we go in order of some ranking list?
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The couchmangers system allows me to control the max number of open auctions (not by per owner). So I've set the max at 40 open auctions.
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 14, 2019 2:26 PM
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Maybe I missed this, but are we going to limit how many auctions are happening at the same time? Maybe 2-3 per team, so there'd be anywhere between 40-60 auctions going on simultaneously?
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ps: to be clear, a slow auction will last about 4 weeks or so (I predict). You get 24 hours to bid on any player nominated, and every time a new bid is made on the player, the auction on this player extends for another 24 hours. So basically you need to check couchmanagers.com once a day.
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 14, 2019 2:18 PM
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Hey everyone, we have several things to determine. One is when to start the slow auction. We'll use this date as a deadline to determine the other things, like wagers and where to keep the wagers and deposit for year 2. Here's the link to pick the days that work for you to START the slow auction. https://doodle.com/poll/kwz95tritqhqebtz
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 14, 2019 2:17 PM
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Welcome everyone. If you missed the note about league details, please the bit.ly/ottoneu link to read the notes and thinking. We actually have a waiting list of owners wanting to join incase there’s soneone not down with the off-site slow auction or the dues (which are still up for debate).
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 13, 2019 7:19 PM
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Here’s FanGraphs top 100 prospects list: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2019-top-100-prospects/
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 13, 2019 7:17 PM
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Great job getting the league filled. Pretty exciting to have 20 for the first time ever
Joey Has a Job on
February 13, 2019 6:15 PM
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BTW, for any voting I recommend using Doodle. Great application.
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http://bit.ly/ottoneu
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 10, 2019 9:28 PM
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>> Here's a place (Google Doc) where we can hammer out the details a bit easier than this message board:
http://bit.ly/ottoneu
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 10, 2019 9:28 PM
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Hey folks, greetings again from your (reluctant) Commish. Thinking about this league is getting me really excited for baseball in general. Ottoneu is great, that much everyone knows. Getting to be the first league to run 20 teams in Ottoneu is another level of exciting. It's certainly an experiment and I guarantee we'll have suggestions on improvements for year 2 and beyond. By no means will this run perfectly. Stay tuned for some details on the league and the feedback I need for setup. Thanks!
Sabo Metrics 📉 on
February 10, 2019 8:58 PM
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Couch managers let's you run with multiple auctions open at once, right? If so, I'd be okay with that, along with the firm understanding that the draft lasts only so long and if rosters are unfilled then the blind auction mechanics must be used.
Also, how easy is it for commish to transfer draft results from couch managers to the league? 800 players to allocate would be a lot of work if done by hand.
U St Unusuals on
February 10, 2019 3:45 PM
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Getting feedback from those that have used it that Couch Managers is the best way to go for this draft
Joey Has a Job on
February 10, 2019 1:11 PM
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I agree no playoffs
U St Unusuals on
February 9, 2019 4:36 PM
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I've never used the blind auction to do an initial draft, so I'll defer to the experiences of whoever has.
As for the playoffs, I concur with what seems to be the consensus of no playoffs at this time.
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I'm a little concerned about blind auctioning that considering we're all creating new values for players, it's hard to adjust if your values are wrong. Someone whose values are too low could conceivably get shutout of the first two days of acquisitions before catching on. In a standard auction it's pretty clear after the first so many stud starters or OF go what the market is. In the blind auction you might not know until it's too late to acquire one.
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I'd prefer not to have playoffs.
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Okay, for extra $20 deposit should we just extend a year? I'm assuming that's what we do, but please confirm.
As to the auction, I think we could all handle 40 or even 60 players up at a time. That would shrink the time needed. But I'm happy doing whatever.
U St Unusuals on
February 9, 2019 9:28 AM
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So 800 players would be owned at any time. Would need 40 days of auction activity if each team gets to nom one player per day. There’s time to do that but league would need to be filled quickly.
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