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Thanks guys, really appreciate it.
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Let's keep the March 7 9p EST time. My schedule gets really screwy the following week as my baseball season really gets underway.
Alcatraz Seals on
February 24, 2019 4:40 PM
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It looks like Thursday, March 7th is the other option. I'll reschedule it to that date for now, but if that's an issue for anyone let me know ASAP.
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Guys, I have a work trip that just got scheduled for Monday. I will be flying to Texas. Hopefully I will be on the ground before draft time, but I also might have to go to dinner with my client before getting back to the room or somewhere to get on my laptop to draft. Do we have another option? Do I need to find a sub to draft for me?
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In fact, my LAST Otto draft this year is scheduled for 3/4
Alcatraz Seals on
February 20, 2019 10:23 PM
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To be honest, I've had drafts already or will have them in the next week and a half for three of my Otto leagues... and that's not even considering some of my other leagues that have already drafted. Guys get hurt all the time- that just comes with the territory.
Alcatraz Seals on
February 20, 2019 10:22 PM
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Is there any way to push the draft out closer to the start of baseball season? Our draft date is a full month before the season starts (March 28). That's lot of time for guys to get injured in Spring Training for doing nothing on a roster. I don't know about you all, but I would be pretty disheartened if I drafted a guy for $20+ on February 25 and he got hurt for the season before it even started. That's a big hit to take mid-season let alone when it can be avoided altogether.
All Proofs on
February 20, 2019 9:50 PM
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Ok, in that case let’s shift it to Monday, Feb 25th instead.
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I totally forgot, I have prior engagements on two of the dates from the poll. Wednesday Feb 27th evening/night and Friday March 4th evening/night.
I apologise for setting myself as available for those two dates.
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I agree that the draft doesn’t end until everyone has finished. As for your first request, I agree in spirit that everyone needs to nominate on their turn. My concern in enforcement is that I don’t really have any way of knowing if somebody is having genuine connection issues, or just makes a mistake and doesn’t realize it’s their turn (both of which I’ve had myself), versus somebody trying to game the system. I’ll try to pause it, but frankly I’m not sure I can guarantee that ever
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I also think we should clarify draft doesn't end until all teams have left the draft room. There can be a strategy to be the last one drafting at the end all alone. In the past, there was a situation where an owner had many spots to fill and a different Commish ended the draft saying owner would have to auction through transactions. That owner should be allowed to complete roster at draft. Ottoneu actually states: e. Each owner can leave the auction at any time. Once all 12 owners have left.
⚾️Otto Ten⚾️ on
February 16, 2019 9:06 PM
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I prefer we set some clarification regarding missed nominations before draft. I think we should pause draft and require all owners must nominate a player. Or everyone gets one miss, then done if miss again. Something set beforehand. Seems like every year, in at least one of my leagues, someone conveniently starts having computer issues right before their bid comes up. I do recognize that Ottoneu draft room kinda sucks. Maybe with the price increase, it will be improved. We can hope.
⚾️Otto Ten⚾️ on
February 16, 2019 8:51 PM
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Thanks everyone for participating, let’s go with the evening of Wednesday, Feb 27th for the draft. 9pm EST (6pm PST) work for everyone? Also, everyone please pay your league dues prior to the draft.
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I can make most draft dates with enough notice. I just have a strong preference for an evening draft and would prefer not to have anything mid-day on the weekends.
All Proofs on
February 15, 2019 4:13 PM
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Hey everyone, so far we have 8 folks who have filled out the Doodle poll, and we are already down to 0 days everyone can make. If you haven't filled it out, please do so ASAP. If you have filled it out already, PLEASE take one more look at your availability and be as flexible as possible in seeing if there are any other dates/time that you can add to make work? Thanks!
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https://doodle.com/poll/36sbxirm4gfecymt
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Hey everyone, I put together a Doodle poll to get everyone's draft availability. Please fill it out as soon as possible, as the first dates listed are this Saturday I think. Please be as flexible as possible! https://doodle.com/poll/36sbxirm4gfecymt
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Welcome!
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Awesome! Welcome to the league.
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hey all, I just came from Bob law...well you get the gist. good to meet you all, I'll have my cuts in shortly.
Miracle Max on
February 11, 2019 9:27 AM
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Montreal Expos's trade block has been updated!
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Hi new owners! I would like you new owners to PM me with your round of penalty-free cuts so we can move forward. Once we get the league filled, we'll try to hammer out a draft date.
Alcatraz Seals on
February 8, 2019 10:53 PM
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Welcome all new owners!
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Welcome new owners.
⚾️Otto Ten⚾️ on
February 3, 2019 11:09 PM
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Hey Everyone, just took over Cleveland Spiders, I'm coming over from Bob Lawball's Law Ball with a couple of other owners here. I'll give Commish a list of players I'd like to cut ASAP. Glad to be here.
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Maybe at least $5. I just know it probably sucks being on a competitive team in one league and taking over a less competitive one that you can’t make trades on in another league.
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Hi everybody! Happy to be here. I'll be changing the team name to Declinometers.
Declinometers on
February 1, 2019 8:58 PM
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Welcome new Expos owner as well!
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I'm cool with Acuna getting cuts. If it happens again, Acuna should receive a punishment of 20 lashings with a wet noodle. I also want to be patient and keep league going. I will make efforts to recruit also. I'm new here, but it seems to be a good group in the league. I also have no problems with the incentives if needed.
⚾️Otto Ten⚾️ on
February 1, 2019 7:37 PM
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Sure, no worries. Also welcome to the new Fantastic Voyage owner!
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Acuna has informed me of a valid reason why cuts weren't made in time (hint: polar vortex chaos). I've given Acuna the ability to give me one round of penalty free cuts. As for the vacancies, I sure hope this league is salvageable and I'm more than fine being patient and offering the customary round of penalty free cuts. I'm not sure about the extra incentives, though, even though I think it's clear that the Otto price hike has created massive challenges for leagues.
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I'm pretty sure the commissioner can adjust player's pricing. I know there are leagues with coupon systems where depending on your finish in the standing you get x number of dollars to take off of player salaries.
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I think that makes sense. Fantastic Voyage is a pretty solid team for example, but Cleveland on the other hand is fairly weak.
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Frankly I don't mind the idea of offering a new owner $x in one-time "coupons" to reduce the salaries of any players of his choice as an incentive (assuming that's an option that's possible in the system?). Could scale it slightly be roster possibly. Maybe $5 for a strong one, and more like $10-15 for a weaker one. Or whatever number makes sense. Or we can give Cleveland that $48 Stanton I had to cut... :)
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The good news is most of the available rosters have a number of appealing keepers on them. The Cleveland Spiders is probably more of a rebuild, but still has a number of reasonable keepers. The rest look pretty good to me. My worry is that there is like 100 available teams on the Dashboard (most in $20 tier), so I agree we might need to more proactively recruit new owners one way or another. Posting the openings on Slack hasn't helped thus far, though maybe if we offer some sort of incentive...
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I'm willing to be patient, it might make sense to try and convince some active teams from another league with a lot of vacancies to move over here. Not sure if it makes sense to do some sort of one time incentives to make some of the bottom teams more attractive... Like let them reduce the salaries of a few players by x amount of dollars to give them a decent group of keepers to build from or something.
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I've usually claimed a team in March or April. When you claim a team after 1/31, you're given an option to make penalty-free cuts. I'm a fan of patience and if the league needs to be disbanded at some point before the season, I'd imagine we could contact Ottoneu and work to get our funds back.
All Proofs on
February 1, 2019 12:51 PM
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So, I guess time for the tough question ... thoughts on whether and/or how we can try to salvage this league with four openings and a fifth team that didn't make cuts?
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Rainmen's trade block has been updated!
⚾️Otto Ten⚾️ on
February 1, 2019 12:04 AM
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I have the ability to take on a lot of salary. If you're looking to shed, let me know.
All Proofs on
January 31, 2019 4:21 PM
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Evil Empire's trade block has been updated!
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Vinegar Strokes's trade block has been updated!
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Sultans of Statcast III's trade block has been updated!
All Proofs on
January 30, 2019 7:23 PM
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Rainmen's trade block has been updated!
⚾️Otto Ten⚾️ on
January 29, 2019 11:25 PM
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Please mark Rainmen as abandoned as well. Thank you.
⚾️Otto Ten⚾️ on
January 29, 2019 12:24 PM
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Evil Empire's trade block has been updated!
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Back from my trip. I posted the three available teams on the Ottoneu Slack channel again a week or so ago, but no bites it appears. Other ideas on how we might be able to fill the openings? There are still a ton of available teams to be claimed on the dashboard, so might be wishful thinking to hope they will happen be claimed in the next few days on their own.
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Vinegar Strokes's trade block has been updated!
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Evil Empire's trade block has been updated!
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Evil Empire's trade block has been updated!
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