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Next, I set the draft date according to the doodle poll. I set the date for Friday, March 3rd at 8 PM EST. That date worked for 5 of the 6 responses (the most).
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Hey Everyone - A couple of housekeeping items. First, thanks to everyone that renewed and made their cuts yesterday. We have 3 teams in question. One is currently abandoned and open for someone to claim. There are two others that did not get their renewals in by the deadline. I have emailed them and will figure out their plans today. Once I have an answer from them, I will go to work on finding new owners.
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Thanks to everyone for getting renewed for next season. I think as of right now, we have 5-6 teams remaining to get dues paid for next season. If you have not completed the draft survey, please do so. I will set a draft date next week.
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Also - just some follow up on the discussion from a couple of weeks ago - I did have Niv take the league down to 12 teams. As of now, we only have one team open to fill prior to the draft.
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Hey all – Time to start thinking about the draft. I put together a draft poll here: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/dRl1WDKa . Please take 2-3 minutes and complete ASAP. Also, don't forget to renew your teams before the January 31 deadline, which is also the cut/keep deadline. Cheers!
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So quiet in here .... Anybody up for trade talks? We've got 10 days to get any deals done
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I was just looking and the participation (sign on) rate has been pretty good for 10 of the managers. I agree that 6-8 weeks is too long to wait and that if we are going to dissolve teams it would be better to do it ASAP. As a result, I am going to ask Niv to dissolve Crawfords and La Porta Potties. This will still most likely leave us with two openings subsequent 2/1. However, that doesn't really concern me much as those tend to get filled prior to 3/1.
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I think for Option #3 to work, we need to purge prior to the cut deadline so everyone would be able to make their final cuts based on players from the dissolved teams being placed in the auction pool. Also, 6-8 weeks may be too long to "leave this as is". When these teams don't renew, they will be placed into the public "expired" teams tab on the Ottoneu home page. I might suggest giving it a couple of weeks to happen organically, but after such time we would need to actively
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I like option 3 but will go with option 1 if that's the consensus. I've always liked 12-team leagues.
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Option 1 sounds good and go to option 3 at beginning of March if not filled. I want this league to keep going as it is fun and quality
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1) Leave things as is and see if the league fills up over the next 6-8 weeks
2) End the league
3) Reduce the league to 12 and disband 2 of the teams. See if the league fills up over the next 6-8 weeks.
Let me know what you think, other options, questions. If you are planning on being in the league next year, please reply to this.
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Hey Everyone – Wanted to check in prior to the renewal deadline. It looks like between empty teams and non active teams, we are down 4-5 owners. I am not too concerned yet, most of the leagues start to fill up in Feb and early March. However, I wanted to at least start a discussion. I see we have a few options:
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I think between the lack of response and the lack of participation (arbitration is an important Ottoneu function, in my opinion) you're justified in abandoning Crawfords (last check in was September) and Gibby (last check in was 6 weeks ago). Oscarville has visited the site today, so maybe another poke is in order for him and Cutter Island has only been away a few days as well.
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I haven't heard much feedback - any other thoughts?
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Hopefully the league can continue but being commish is not in the cards for me.
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With that being said, I am open to all opinions. My life has changed so much over the past year that I just don't have the time needed to find 5 new owners. However, I would like to hear others' opinions. I am happy to continue in the league but let a new owner take over as commissioner. However, if others are on the fence then we can potentially choose to not continue the league. Let me know your opinions.
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With that being said, I am open to all opinions. My life has changed so much over the past year that I just don't have the time needed to find 5 new owners. However, I would like to hear others' opinions. I am happy to continue in the league but let a new owner take over as commissioner. However, if others are on the fence then we can potentially choose to not continue the league. Let me know your opinions.
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Hey everyone - so here is where things stand. We had 9 or 14 teams participate in arb. I would assume the teams that did not participate will not be coming back. I have only had 2 reach out to me to tell me that for sure. I know everyone has put a lot of work into their teams and there is desire to continue.
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How are we looking for continuing another season?
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Last day for arb,,,
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3 more days left to finalize arbitration. Please take care of it if you haven't already (we have 6 teams remaining).
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Hey everyone - we have 9 days left for arbitration and still a ton of teams left to participate. I will assume if you don’t complete arbitration that you are not coming back. On that note, if we have more than 4 teams not coming back, we’ll need to figure out if we are moving forward. Hopefully that is not the case.
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Its a great Sunday to do a little bit of arbitration allocation. Fifteen days and 6 teams remaining.
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Hey everyone, if you're planning on not returning and want help finding a team, let us all know as soon as possible so we can start the process of finding people!
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Hey Everyone – Sorry I am a little bit tardy on my note to remind everyone to participate in arbitration. Even if you are not planning on returning next year, please take a few minutes to participate. On that note, if you are not planning on returning, please send me a quick note. I don’t anticipate filling spots for a little while, but it would be good to start putting some feelers out. Thanks
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I will be back in a few weeks with some details regarding arb and the rest of the off season.
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Huge congrats to Lima - its amazing that after 162 days it came down to a difference of just 33.1 points! I think Ottoneu is one of the hardest leagues to win so its a huge feather in the cap to walk away with a championship.
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Trade deadline today
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Yeah, very weird because Spanky just messaged me about trade talks around 6 today. Not sure what happened!
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Cool. Just making sure. It sounded like there may have been a mixup. That said, I'd be interested in trade talks over the next 3 weeks. No one's untouchable, but I'd like to deal some stars to contenders for some future value. Hit me up
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They absolutely can be claimed - it was just weird because they both literally got abandoned at the exact same time (9:40) and then claimed within 5 minutes of each other.
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Were the abandoned teams not supposed to be claimed? They were listed as available, so I claimed one of them.
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Ummm...so what just happened? Did two teams get traded?
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Hey yall – if any of you are into fantasy football, I've started an ottoneu league. You can all see how bad I am at fantasy sports by myyear tanking this , so feel free to come over here and take my money! https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/football/invite?invite=eyJMZWFndWVJRCI6MjE2LCJJbnZpdGVySUQiOiIxNTY2ODQifQ==
All Proofs on
August 3, 2022 10:17 AM
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Aroldis Chapman available--make me an offer--might not take as much as you think
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https://c.tenor.com/7wYgBGE0OMUAAAAM/simpsons-stop.gif
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Nasty Nate, come on now! What the %&*@!#. Can anyone beat -69 points in 1.2 innings?
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We will see how long it lasts.
Devil Dogs on
April 13, 2022 7:55 PM
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Dogs, I gotta say, I was skeptical of your offence-only roster construction, but damned if it isn't working!
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Think you may need to go in and end draft. It shows as paused
Devil Dogs on
April 3, 2022 8:26 AM
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Draft is over. If you have roster spots they will need to be filled through free agency
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Went till almost 1am. I say close it and eveyone can finish their times by claiming players.
Devil Dogs on
April 3, 2022 8:25 AM
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Are we resuming the draft at some point?
All Proofs on
April 3, 2022 8:13 AM
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Just a quick reminder to everyone that TODAY is draft day. See everyone at 9:30 PM EST tonight.
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Thanks for everyone being flexible - I pushed the time back to 9:30 EST for Saturday.
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Thanks guys, I appreciate the willingness with which you're able to rearrange your schedules to allow me to continue kicking ass!
All Proofs on
March 25, 2022 9:30 AM
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I'm good with the later time as I'm on the west coast
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Us EST folks are used to 10 pm Trout/Ohtani viewing schedules
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I can manage later. It’s a redraft, so it should go relatively quickly
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Please let me know - I welcome discussion. I know that may be late for some east coasters.
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