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I know now there is an Endy Rodriguez in Minnesota’s system as well as Pittsburgh’s 😁⚾️.
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Looking for impact outfielders and hitters in general. Hmu!
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Woo! Thanks for coordinating it all!
Café 80s on
March 15, 2025 2:57 PM
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Alright, rosters are imported and draft is done, let the season begin! Please double-check your rosters and make sure everything transferred correctly. Good luck, and have fun!
Red Canaries on
March 15, 2025 2:50 PM
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Sorry guys was having trouble with couchmanagers login again - just close it down. Excited for season to kick off. Best of luck with the hoops game.
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hope he scores 20
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Yeah, I’m heading out to my son’s basketball game in a few. Will end the auction after that and import rosters unless I see that last nom in the meantime. Nice work everyone, and good luck this season!
Red Canaries on
March 15, 2025 10:36 AM
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Maybe give him til 2 EST today to nom a player and if not, start the season up
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He's at 39/40 - I say close it down - open up free agency and trades
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I am done and the only other team with open spots is Big Dumper so depending on what their plan is we might be.
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Are we done?
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We’re drafting right now! I set the Ottoneu draft for a later date to allow us time to finish, but I will cancel that once we’re done slow drafting. If you cancel it early, the site will open up post-draft activity like cuts and trades and we don’t want to allow that til the slow drafting is done.
Red Canaries on
March 9, 2025 1:25 PM
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Are we actually starting march 18 at 7 EST? Or is it different with the slow draft
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Alright, looks like we're ready to roll! I upped it to 3 noms per team to start with, so we'll have 36 guys up at once. Thanks for the patience getting this going, and good luck everyone!
Red Canaries on
March 9, 2025 1:00 PM
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Ok, site is back up but our draft got deleted. Once everyone has rejoined I'll get rosters imported and we can start ASAP. Here's the link, use `tycobb` to join:
https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=1162
Red Canaries on
March 8, 2025 9:48 PM
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It’s back up but looks like you’ll need to recreate the auction. Some got deleted from what I read.
Café 80s on
March 8, 2025 8:05 PM
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I am not sure what the number is currently, but in order to move it along, I would vote we allow each manager to nominate 4 players at a time.
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You can follow along in this thread: https://community.ottoneu.com/t/couch-managers-down-3-2-2025/15240/27
TL;DR CM got a bad server in an upgrade and is migrating to a new one, should hopefully be back sometime over the weekend.
Red Canaries on
March 6, 2025 7:49 PM
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But the bad news is, the CM server is down again. Stay tuned
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yes, or you will get called out LOL.. there comes a point where you might not want to nominate anyone, so there's an art to nominating guys you'd rather not win;). Another thing to remember is to keep your eye on your budget (top left) so that your total bids don't surpass your bank account! (actually the program will enforce, but it's best to stay aware)
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> If there’s max bid of $20, and someone else bids $12, Ill get that guy for $13?
Actually it's even better, you'll get that guy for $12. You win the tie.
> How long do we have to nominate a player after each 8 hours round?
There's no skip rule, just try to nom as soon as you can. No worries if you're sleeping when an auction ends and it takes til the next day. Just don't be that guy that sits out for days at a time.
Red Canaries on
March 6, 2025 1:47 PM
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How long do we have to nominate a player after each 8 hours round?
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Ok all understood. So to start, well have 12 players on auction for 8 hours. Every time someone bids, well get a notification on that and we can set max bids to play it safe or if we aren’t going to pay attention. For example, If there’s max bid of $20, and someone else bids $12, Ill get that guy for $13?
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One piece of advice--don't check the box at the top that says "Make max bid your real bid". That will do exactly what it says and set the price to your max bid (like bidding against yourself). So in the earlier example, if you set your max bid to $5 and no one else would've bid more than $3, checking that box means you'd be spending $5 anyway.
There's probably other tips or notes others can offer, but hopefully that gives you the gist of it. 3/3
Red Canaries on
March 6, 2025 1:30 PM
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So you'll nominate someone similar to how you would when on the clock in a real auction. The biggest difference is that you can set a max bid, and you'll still be winning the player until someone exceeds that number (so you could start at $1 with a max of $5, and if someone else bids $4 you would still be winning for $4. Same if they +1 to $5. But if they +1 again to $6 they will be winning (and they can also set their own max bid to prevent losing on a +1). 2/n
Red Canaries on
March 6, 2025 1:27 PM
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Good question! There is some info on the Ottoneu forums (this thread may be helpful: https://community.ottoneu.com/t/couch-managers-recommendations/7056/29). Basically the way it works is instead of timers at 30s/20s like in a live "fast" draft, the timers are set to 12h/8h so you can check in and bid at your leisure over the course of a few days. We'll also be auctioning multiple players at once--I set it to start with 1 nomination per team, but we can up that as we go. 1/n
Red Canaries on
March 6, 2025 1:23 PM
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Is there a link or explanation as to how this draft will work? Ive never done it before
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Looks like everyone is in the draft! I just updated the roster import for the last few teams--please double check that everything looks right. Assuming are correct, we can get this thing rolling. Clocks are set to 12 hrs for initial noms, and will reset to 8hrs if anyone is outbid with under 8 hrs left. Will wait to kick things off since it's the middle of the night in Asia, but unless I hear otherwise I'll plan to start around 8am ET Fri.
Red Canaries on
March 6, 2025 12:21 PM
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Im in
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I’m in
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Also in
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I'm in
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Im in!
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Alright, slow draft is ready if we want to go that route. Once everyone has joined I'll get rosters imported and we can start ASAP. Here's the link to join:
https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/index.php?auction_id=1175
Use "tycobb" to join.
Red Canaries on
March 5, 2025 9:19 PM
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OK, so we're on to Plans C + D -- Jeff has subscribed and set it up on Couch Managers. The alternative (Plan D) would have been for whoever couldn't make the Live draft (most days only had 1 who couldn't) just to get a Proxy -- on Slack it's actually quite easy to get a stand-in to draft for you and follow your Spec's
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Yea, I am in Tokyo. Those dates that you mentioned (US EST) are okay for me.
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I just remembered Jingu is also in Asia, so this might not work out -- but we have a PLan C!
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And away we goooo ---Please mark your availability for: STEAL HOME Auction day https://whenavailable.com/invite/mk6JJFNsBOyK283LbxMf
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yes do a scheduling widget - avoids all the messages - thx
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I will tell you right now that the only days I can do a Live Draft are Sunday Monday Tuesday and Thursday nights next week (EST). Those dates again are: Sun 3/9 Mon 3/10 Tue 3/11 and Thu 3/13. Should I make a widget for that just to check if it's easier that way?
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Slow Auction (via Couch Managers, a typically reliable platform that's just crashed and upgraded) has been proposed and generally accepted -- but we can certainly still pivot to a live draft if there's enough support. But back to PLan A -- in attempting to set up the CM auction, I had subscription snafu (while learning that it's not free to do!), so have just emailed the Head Couch Manager himself. In the meantime, since I am the expat outlier (12 hours ahead of EST), I will... (TBC)
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Great thanks guys. For clarification on whats going on, what is the proposed method of drafting, platform, and draft date?
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Thanks for setting it up! I’m on ET and am happy be the other admin, unless someone else already has a subscription account and would like to. I’m in the same boat of having participated in several but never actually run one (much like being an Ottoneu commish). Appreciate everyone’s patience as we’re getting things set up!
Red Canaries on
March 5, 2025 7:18 AM
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Yeah, back online and seems to be running smoothly, but a couple complain that it's still buggy (seems to be browser related, so if you run into troubles later, try different browser). OK, so although I've participated in several of these, I've never actually set one up. But I will try to do so today (it's the afternoon in Vietnam, where I am currently) and, since I am often asleep when you'll be bidding (and vice versa), we need another Admin for CouchManagers in case of issues. Any volunteers?
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Woooo, can't wait! Looks like maybe CM is good now?
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Definitely seems like group consensus is to take it slow, and get started in enough time so the Tokyo series counts. I would get it started soon, but Couch Managers (the favored platform for slow drafts) is currently undergoing a server upgrade -- there was a crash this past weekend, one current league I'm in has our Draft suspended atm. So I am gonna wait a day or 2 to see how it goes after we restart that one.
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Same. Slow draft whenever
Café 80s on
March 4, 2025 2:30 AM
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I like the idea of a slow draft. Ready to roll anytime.
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Happy to do a slow draft and ready to start whenever.
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