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If anyone wants in on a last minute Yahoo AL Only - I just started one.
https://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/160979/invitation?key=5df8582c04259569&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=f9f9fdfc6a37fdd2
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Thanks, Otto! Appreciate you for managing all of that
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Rosters have been imported from the couchmanagers auction site. Please check yours to make certain all went well, and let me know if anything is squirrelly. And thanks again to everyone for their attitudes and patience through an unpleasant experience. I appreciate it. Trades will be opened up, good luck to all this season. And as always, make me an offer!
Otto 2021 on
March 5, 2025 5:04 PM
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Thanks commish! You did a great job navigating the CM downtime. I look forward to the season.
Jacksnipes on
March 4, 2025 7:46 AM
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We are finally nearing the end. Everyone has plenty of unused nominations. I ask that you nominate everyone that you want by 6pm eastern today. I'll start to close down the available noms from everyone at that point, and we'll let the auctions run out. There may be a case where someone gets outbid at the last minute and now needs to nominate someone else. If that occurs, PM me and I'll get that guy auctioned for you. Thank you all for being patient during this!!
Otto 2021 on
March 4, 2025 7:18 AM
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All is working great for now.
Otto 2021 on
March 3, 2025 6:55 PM
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I see higher bids coming in and new players being nominated, so it is indeed working. I'm curious if there was a lag or not when those inputs were made?
Otto 2021 on
March 3, 2025 6:11 PM
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Auction has resumed. The clock is ticking. I can't nominate anyone because I have 2 roster spots open, and 2 active high bids at the moment.
Otto 2021 on
March 3, 2025 5:57 PM
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All the players that closed without other bidders having a shot at them are back up for grabs. I'll turn this back on around 5pm or so. And I see everyone has 4 nominations to use. There are only 35 spots left to fill, and some teams may not even want to fill all 40 just yet. So it should go pretty quickly if their new server holds up. To assist in that, I have lowered the settings to 8 hours for new noms instead of 12. And also lowered the extension of a new higher bidder from 6 hours down to 4
Otto 2021 on
March 3, 2025 4:44 PM
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Thanks, Otto. Can't imagine this having gone smoother than it's gone here. Well done. I'm glad the league I commish doesn't start the auction till next Friday.
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Looks good to me
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Looks like site is back up again...not sure if draft is paused or not.
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Thanks Otto, I think you've made it as painless as possible given the circumstances!
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BLuck, I don't see anywhere to edit that at this point, but I will look further. Jacksnipes - that works for me as I have an appointment coming up that will kill a couple of hours. I'll update and extend the auctions, and then alert the group before I restart the process. Manfred - you're welcome, and I really appreciate everyone being patient during this crappy process.
Otto 2021 on
March 3, 2025 1:37 PM
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Seems like the most reasonable move forward. Can you also adjust the 2nd catcher spot to Misc? The site does not allow you to get to 40 players if that spot is not filled.
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Sounds fair to me. I would also be fine if you want to pause this until the evening.
Jacksnipes on
March 3, 2025 1:28 PM
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Sounds good. Thanks for managing this.
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Okay, I just logged in and chose the "Extend" option on one of the guys I got during the blackout. I extending Tyler Rogers. It has placed him back on the board, and put the remaining time as a little under 3 hours to go. I think that's the time he had left when it went down. I'll do that for those other auctions as well. That should give everyone equal opportunities to bid on all those guys. That sound fair to everyone?
Otto 2021 on
March 3, 2025 1:25 PM
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I paused it for now. I'll see if I can possibly manually undo the last ones that GF Chauncey referenced. I expect that if i do, it just throws those players back into the pool of available players. Let me check, and I'll report back asap.
Otto 2021 on
March 3, 2025 1:18 PM
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It's back live and moving very quickly in terms of speeds of site.
It appears that the draft timer did keep running. My records show the last FULLY completed cycle as being Tyler Horton to Otto2024 for $1. The 18 auctions that finished after that, beginning with Noelvi Marte, had time left when the site went down. Not sure if you can manually re-launch those auctions or not.
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From forum:
nivshah
Founder
3m
It sounds like Mike is working closely with his hosting company to get everything back up. They have data as of yesterday when the downtime started, and the main problem has been that the new beefier server he moved to failed immediately. His hosting company is on it and hopefully we’ll see a positive update soon.
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I do have a list of auctions, up to when the site went down yesterday, that were completed that you can manually add to the CSV, if we have to go another route. My spreadsheet has all final prices and winners. Hopefully doesn't come to that anyways.
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Thanks for monitoring this, commish. I feel for you because this appears to be a huge mess headed your way.
Still unclear, but it appears as though timers kept running during this emergency update. If true, you might need to manually adjust the auctions? Not certain the best way to handle this as some were nearly complete while others had just begun. I think, once it is running again and you are able to see what has happened, whatever decision you make is fine by me.
Jacksnipes on
March 3, 2025 7:55 AM
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On Ottoneu forum Niv said couchmanagers site was performing an emergency update yesterday. Here is hoping everything is good to go today.
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Sounds good commish. What a strange situation. It feels weird that CM is so popular having auch a poor interface design but it works. Wifey said everytime she looked at my phone and I was in the draft...she thought my phone was broken. It's only my heart that's broken...
Giambinos on
March 3, 2025 6:45 AM
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As of this morning, I still cannot access the couch manager site. It was working fine mid-morning yesterday and then just croaked. Luckily, I did save a csv file of our progress from during the day before. Once it went down yesterday, I could not access it again to get a current one. Let's give them today to see if they can get it together. If not, we'll load that csv file into Ottoneu, then get together to discuss scheduling a live draft to complete the process from there.
Otto 2021 on
March 3, 2025 6:18 AM
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I'd be astounded if we lost any progress, but I feel bad for the CM guy. This is a tough one to come back from a few weeks out during heavy draft season.
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I am being told in another auction room that CM is down and porting to new servers
Jacksnipes on
March 2, 2025 7:02 PM
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Has this happened before/is there a chance the site won't return? Should we document what we have already done in case it's lost?
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Is the auction still running? I am not able to get in at all
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I’m getting error that website does not have certificate and connection not private
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Is anyone else getting an error that couchmanagers is down?
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Easiest thing is to make the 2nd C spot a MISC (any position) spot, as having 2 catchers is optional.
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Can you manually change player eligibility on Couchmanager? I am not able to bid on a 40th player as there are not enough bench spots. The site does not allow me to move Soderstrom to C (he qualified by starting 21 games in LV last season and is eligible on the Ottoneu site). I believe being able to move him would allow me to pursue a full roster.
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It is still very very slow. But it's a lot better than it was before. I will restart it now. Just be patient with it, maybe they'll get it straight soon.
Otto 2021 on
March 1, 2025 4:12 PM
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I was able to get in. Pause it. I also downloaded the .csv file for all progress up through right now. I'll re-start the auction once things speed back up. I'm in nother auction on that site right now and when you make a new bid, it is taking over 4 minutes for that bid to be registered and take effect. That's nuts. I'll continue to monitor and await improvement. Once it is fixed, i'll post on here before restarting it.
Otto 2021 on
March 1, 2025 2:56 PM
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Mine was fine until about 5 mins. ago. However, it seems to have paused itself - as I was able to get in a second ago and the auctions aren't moving.
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I'll try to get in there and pause it. but so far, not able to.
Otto 2021 on
March 1, 2025 2:36 PM
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Same here
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is the couchmanager site suddenly not loading properly for any of you? It was fine for me this morning, but now, nothing.
Otto 2021 on
March 1, 2025 2:32 PM
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Auction is live. The first two guys are up for bid. Each player will be available for a minimum of 24 hours, so all players regardless of time zone will have a shot. Good luck everyone!
Otto 2021 on
February 25, 2025 10:24 AM
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I'll be starting the auction within the next hour. Good luck to all!!
Otto 2021 on
February 25, 2025 9:26 AM
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There's an 8 hour extension to the clock for higher bids. The small sleep window is just a tiny buffer to prevent a bargain from "sneaking" thru in the wee hours. And even setting that small of a window often can be unfair if we have some league members located outside of North America.
Otto 2021 on
February 25, 2025 8:49 AM
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I have not looked at the settings. Is there an overnight pause from 2am to 7am EST?
Most slow auctions I have done do not use any overnight pause. The auction clock is typically long enough to avoid any problems. With an 8- or 9-hout auction reset, you should see overbids before the auction ends. Unless someone is outside the continental US, then it can become a problem.
Jacksnipes on
February 25, 2025 8:39 AM
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Is there any way we can set the auction to have more sleep time? 2 eastern to 7 eastern doesn't seem like much of a realistic sleep window.
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Awesome, thanks commish!
Jacksnipes on
February 23, 2025 9:28 AM
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With 168 open roster spots in the league, we'll go ahead and start the slow auction this week. I wish there were no early games in tokyo, so that we could see more spring training action before completing our rosters. I even thought about ignoring those two games and doing the auction much later. But I was in a couple of leagues last year that came down the very last day. Every game counts. So we're starting around 10am eastern on Tuesday of this week. Good luck to everyone!!
Otto 2021 on
February 23, 2025 9:24 AM
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If anyone is looking to add another team, here is one that is available in another league I'm in. Check it out if you're interested and claim it. Thanks! https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/1326/team/9147
Otto 2021 on
February 11, 2025 6:04 PM
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Rosters are updated in couchmanagers. Please check yours when you get an opportunity to make sure it worked as designed. We'll settle on a start date soon. The goal is to get the auction done prior to the opening games in Tokyo.
Otto 2021 on
February 11, 2025 3:28 PM
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We joined the auction. I think we were the only team missing so we could import the players now.
Giambinos on
February 11, 2025 10:03 AM
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