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I'll remove the incorrect Zach Veen from the team that wins that action. Unless someone was trying to corner the market on Zac(h) Veens.
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I’ll Met, you are a legend. Thanks for taking care of all this. Excited for what should be a great season.
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Thank you!
The Avengers on
March 16, 2025 6:19 PM
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Thank you, IMBM! Good luck this season, everyone!
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Good afternoon. I declare, after many travails, that the 2025 Midsummer Night Classic Auction is over. My check of numbers of players and dollars matches, but please double check. You are free to auction, drop and trade players. I thank you for your patience and forebearance in what has been a difficult process. Good luck everybody.
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Given everything that has happened, I understand the desire to finish the auction quickly. However, we are making great time, and I still see evidence of bidding.
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Can we shorten the time to 5 or 6 hours?
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As we're getting into the end game of the auction, just another request that you take a minute to go in and click pass on players you're not interested in. At this rate, I'm just trying to fill out roster spots with $1 guys (as are a few other teams). If folks want to bid them up, that's cool, but maybe we could hustle all these $1 bids along?
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Sounds good, Thank you!
The Avengers on
March 9, 2025 10:22 PM
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Sounds good, thank you!
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sounds good to me
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Actually couchmanagers starts on its own tomorrow at 8 AM EDT. We can give it a couple of days. With 10 hour auctions, players should go quickly. If we’re unhappy after two or three days, we walk away and revert to a standard draft to finish. It’s the best I’ve got.
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Couchmangers with a morning start would still be my preference. 13th isn't an option for me
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I can’t do 9pm on the 13th. Only the 14th or 15th.
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The two options are an Ottoneu draft with the least objectionable tine being March 13 at 9:00 PM EST or we hope third time’s a charm on couchmanagers starting tomorrow at 9 AM EST. There is surprising support for the latter. I’ve reserved the time for the former, but that is easily changed. Thank you all for your patience.
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I agree. I’m okay with either option
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This is my only experience with couchmanagers and I would bet money on DraftKings it crashes again. But, consensus seems unlikely. Nailing a date and time isn’t worth losing hours or days. If we don’t have a clear date and time that works already, I’d just make the long draft have short nomination and extension periods and hit go.
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Good either way, but seems like may lose league members if do couchmangers and it crashes again. Can make any live draft date work if given notice, sorry have to deal with all this chris
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I would prefer to slow draft if possible. I’m traveling on business this week and also have 3 drafts this week on Ottoneu site to deal with. But I’m good either way.
Otto2024 on
March 9, 2025 12:41 PM
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Shoot me in the groin with rock salt.
I can’t do 9pm eastern on any dates but the 14th and 15th. Generally that’s just way too late.
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I could do the 12th or the 13th for a live draft depending on the time. I'm also okay to try couchmanagers again
The Avengers on
March 9, 2025 12:32 PM
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I'm still good with CM if everyone else is game. I can help add players to teams as auctions end if that helps also
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The preference is for a regular Ottoneu draft. I am available March 13, 14 and 17 and the afternoon of the 16. I have also reset the couchmanagers room if we want to try a third time. I’m less pissed than last night. We could start that any time. Auction times would be 10 hours with 5 hour extensions. I would be actively backing up the data.
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3/10 out for me already drafting in anothet league. Other dates would work.
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I could probably make a live auction work but my availability is pretty limited for the new couple of weeks. Any chance we could consider a 9/9:30 (ET) start on 3/10, 3/12 or 3/17?
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Option 2 seems like the prudent path
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I'm ok with either option. If we opt for a live auction I cannot do next Sunday as I have in person draft for most of that day.
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I'm okay for a live draft as long as every team is covered.
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Sorry my post crossed with yours but suffice to say I would opt for option two.
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Given the instability, may I suggest using the native Ottoneu platform and simply holding a traditional auction in one night next weekend? I know this is not the format this league prefers but couch managers is just riding the struggle bus.
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You couldn’t pay me to vote for a third couchmanagers go.
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Option two: we schedule a regular draft. That may mean some teams need proxy drafters.
To be honest, I've had it with couchmasters. However, if you want the couchmasters experience, we can try one more time.
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There is no good news. Couchmanagers is back, but anything that was done after the first crash is lost. Gone. Since we restarted on Monday, the whole restarted draft is gone. The results you see are from the stub draft from last Sunday from noon until about 2 PM. We can't do anything with those. We can either start from scratch on couchmanagers with an accelerated schedule. I would have to import the the winning auctions regularly as a safety measure.
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According to the forum posts “[T]he data will be as of last Sunday. If you started a draft this week, it is gone, unfortunately.”
So anything we did is essentially gone.
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Looks like it ended some auctions early or didnt save any of what we did last week? THoughts and prayers to you chris, this is brutal sorry man
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I see couchsmashers is back up. We taking bets on how long?
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Yeah, I'm good with shorter times and/or no overnight pause when we resume. Also have used CM for countless auctions in the past and yeah, this year has been tough but hopefully new server doesn't shit the bed again once up and running
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It might be good to go aggressive on the timers when the site comes back up so that we can finish this up quickly in case it crashes again. Otto2024 bumped us to faster timers in another league and we finished really fast after the first few days were moving slowly + all the instability.
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Where's the news coming from?
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I have drafted on the couchmanagers platform countless times over the last several years and WOW does this year take the cake. Thankfully 2 of my leagues completed drafts before the site imploded!
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NGL, the drama playing out over fixing couchmanagers is more entertaining that using couchmanagers. Sounds like extortion.
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Sounds good. Thanks for being on top of this for us!
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When couchmanagers comes back up, I will reset the time on all auction to noon today. We will then continue on couchmanagers until we are finished or couchmanagers gives up totally. I will be taking backup steps so that minimal data loss can occur. When couchmanagers comes back up, do not make a bid or nominate a player until I give you the all clear. I am more frustrated than any of you.
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Do we have an alternative to couchmanagers? A standard auction on the Ottoneu page?
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I've never seen anything like this on couchmanagers. Ottoneu has had some bad nights during drafts and has gone down from time to time. However, in my day job (systems librarian), I see this and much worse all too often. It's the price of dealing with systems.
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Jumping in here to say that this is not the norm, and Ottoneu as a platform has been great for the few years I've been on it. Some areas are not ideal, but Niv is responsive and fixes issues quickly. Couch Managers is a separate service from Ottoneu, can't really comment on that but this is the first year I've seen major issues
IMBM, thanks for managing all of this for us. Really appreciate all the work you've put in
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Man this has been a terrible introduction to Ottoneu and Couch Managers. Somebody wake me when this is up and running and stable again. I’ve got some other drafts to get ready for.
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Should we switch over to a live draft for the rest of the players after the current auctions are over or ride it out with couch? Never had issues with it in the past. Seems like everyone is active so may be an alternative
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Update from the forums: The server has indeed crashed. Mike is working with the hosting company on figuring out next steps.
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Looks like it. per the forum thread seems like they're aware
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