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Hey league - I'm Steve VanWieren, the new owner of El Mago Sho (I will change the team name - and I'll warn you, I come up with weird team names sometimes). I've been playing fantasy baseball since 1988 (before the internet). My father was a broadcaster for the Atlanta Braves for 33 years, so I'm a baseball junkie for sure. Thanks for inviting me into the league - I look forward to it.
Dump The Icks on
October 10, 2022 4:36 PM
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Congrats to the trophy winners! I’m game for an expanded playoffs! I’ll also be returning next season. I’ll see if I can scrounge up some managers if anyone is available and the teams have not been filled.
Bad-Ball Bums on
October 7, 2022 5:03 PM
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Great season. Since I have yet to make these playoffs, I aim for an expanded playoff field but with the caveat that the championship match gets a two-week matchup instead of one.
When does allocation start and end?
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Welcome to the league Steve!
I've also got confirmation that Swiss Crackers will now need a new manager as well. We need two more managers for next season, and it'd be great to get them in starting with the Arbitration/Allocation period!
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As Harold noted, we have a new owner for El Mago Sho. Steve's a friend of mine and a big baseball and analytics fan. Welcome to the league, Steve!
Judgement Day on
October 4, 2022 4:21 PM
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FYI: The manager of India-na Jones and The Temple of Bo has informed me that he will not be playing in 2023 and we are seeking a replacement.
We have a new manager for El Mago Sho and once they get signed up we'll do a proper introduction.
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I would be in favor of expanded playoffs.
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I think I like all the current settings. I'd be fine with expanding to a 6-team playoff, but I would be fine with staying at 4. Overall, I like the H2H FanGraphs Points format a lot.
Judgement Day on
October 4, 2022 10:44 AM
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I was thinking a 6 team playoff move might be good for us - we had great competition this year for the spots and it'd be great to get more teams buying/selling at the deadline
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I'd be down to expanding playoffs, makes more people active at the trade deadline as buyers.
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Hey everyone, we're searching for two new managers for next year and may be on the lookout for a third. While we do that, I have a question for everyone - is there anything we'd like to change about our league settings? Now would be a good time to consider whether we wanted to change anything like expanding our playoffs for instance.
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I got sucked in, I will stick around. 😄
Cedar WaxSwings on
September 30, 2022 11:22 PM
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Everyone, we now have TWO openings in the league - hit me up with any potential manager options!
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El Mago, thanks for playing this year and letting us know you'll not be staying with us!
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This is going to be my last year. I have too many teams and am going to cut down. Good luck to everyone
Dump The Icks on
September 29, 2022 8:11 AM
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Let me add that when it comes to arbitration, let's all remember Harold is the true threat. Make sure you allocate the max for Harold.
Judgement Day on
September 19, 2022 8:50 AM
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Thanks, Harold. It was a fun season. I thought trading away Musgrove and trading for an injured Wheeler that never came back would come back to haunt me, but who needs them when you have Twins starting pitchers? Also, Aaron Judge is out of this world. Good work making me sweat on the last day after having a 300+ point lead. The fact that you chipped away to get within striking range is impressive.
Judgement Day on
September 19, 2022 8:49 AM
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But! Overall, it was a great year. Fun time playing with all of you, and I look forward to a good offseason. Remember that FA signings and cuts can continue until October 5th, and we'll have an Arbitration period starting on October 15th!
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On top of that the pitching that carried me to the title also didn't perform all that well with Montas/Cole combing for 14 total points in 3 starts.
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Congrats to Jason on the back-to-back title! Aaron Judge was a difference maker all season and scored 97.2 points during the title matchup and was only outdone by Joe Ryan who put up 113.73 points during the match. Overall it was a complete victory with Judgement Day holding an advantage in both Hitting and Pitching for the matchup. For my team, outside of Yordan Alvarez and JRam, the hitting didn't show up with my 3rd best performer being Seth Brown!
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What a nail biter till the very end. I’m glad it was a hard fought match! Good luck to you guys!
Bad-Ball Bums on
September 12, 2022 3:20 PM
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Hey that was a great match-up Harold, just when I thought I was catching up you turned on the jets! Best of luck to both Lutz's in this weeks championship!
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I was definitely sweating against Bad-Ball! Don't forget there's a third-place matchup this week too. :)
Judgement Day on
September 12, 2022 2:07 PM
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Shoutout to Bad-Ball Bums and Abra Kadabra Alcantara on a great season. Playoffs are wacky, and you never know what'll happen!
Now it's time for the Lutz Championship Showdown II - hopefully with a different outcome this time. I'd greatly appreciate it if everyone could light a candle and say a prayer for Mitch Keller, Montas, Cueto, and Ranger Suarez this week.
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If anyone has an interesting swap in mind for any of George Springer, Trevor Story, Liam Hendricks, and/or Ozzie Albies, hit me up. :)
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Deadline Day!!!
Bad-Ball Bums on
August 31, 2022 10:57 AM
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ALSO - trade deadline is coming up on Wednesday. So if you're out of the playoffs, this is the time to improve - go get some high margin/upside players for those high priced players :)
I'm sure all of the teams in or trying to make the playoffs would be open to deals!
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We're in the last week of the regular season and three teams have locked in a playoff spot. One last spot remains with 3 teams eligible. If Bad-Ball wins, he's in. If he loses, he's still in unless El Mago or Ynoa win AND score enough points to pass Bad-Ball's point total for the season. Ynoa basically has a bye but needs to score a ton and El-Mago needs a big week to have a shot.
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Looking for a C if anyone is selling!
Bad-Ball Bums on
August 27, 2022 8:02 PM
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Royce you're sounding like a G5 college football conference team ;)
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#ExpandThePlayoffs
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Charlie Morton just pitched a 62 point game yesterday. And he's priced to sell!
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Vaughn Grissom with one epic bat flip has gone from unknown to 60% owned in Ottoneu with avg salary around $10 and a high of nearly $20 LOL
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Do you ever click through to the players fangraphs page? I use that a lot.
Also, if you go to the community page you c an submit ideas for updates anytime and Niv generally responds to all of them!
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I like Ottoneu for the most part. I wish there were some other things as well. Such as looking at a player profile every day and seeing a breakdown of their match-up against the starting pitcher (history vs that pitcher and vs that type of pitcher). Yahoo did that and I loved it.
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Shopping Logan Gilbert for some impact players! Get in that inbox
Bad-Ball Bums on
August 8, 2022 12:43 PM
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Even without Harper you still made it a very close matchup this week! Anything can happen in the last 5 weeks!
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Just like most teams, you've got time to turn it around. The Harper injury hurts though!
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Bryce Harper did me dirty (or rather, Blake Snell, the jerk). Four game losing streak since he went down. It was fun while it lasted!
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Trade deadline is August 31st
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Is there a trade deadline?
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Remember that this week's matchup is a TWO WEEK matchup due to the All-star break! The same pitching start limit is in place as a regular one-week matchup, so plan accordingly. :)
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It honestly hurt my soul seeing him go down in 2/3 of an inning. And I’m the one that traded him! My deepest condolences.
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also, I'd like to point out that I've traded for 2 SPs during this season and one immediately went on IL (Megill) and Sale lasted 2/3 inning.
Anyone have a SP they need to take out for this season for the sake of their fav baseball team? Trade them my way!
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he lasted 2/3 inning after trading for him LOL
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Harold... I don't think Chris Sale is healthy the rest of the season.
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I started Mitch White over David Peterson, and that gave me a solid -14 instead of 31. I wouldn't give up. Anything can happen!
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JUDGEMENT, I'm so mad at Gonsolin and Severino for blowing my match-up with you this week. I'd gladly take zero points over -45 from one of my aces. Hard to come back from that. Good show this week. My slow descent back to the middle pack is now complete.
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Chris Sale is healthy right...RIGHT?!?! Please someone tell me he'll stay healthy the rest of season
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Mitch Keller is a Pirate pitcher. He'll never be good.
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