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Please welcome Nick Brucella to the Boys of Summer. Of the three open teams, Nick decided to take over the team formerly known as JZ. Welcome Nick!
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
October 17, 2022 3:12 PM
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Arbitration has started and will end on November 14th, so don't forget to use the $25 and spread it around to each team.
We still have three openings, so if you know someone who would like to join this fine group, send me their contact information along with how you know them. We have one potential, but I haven't heard back from him. I've posted in the managers-wanted channel on Slack, but nothing yet. I would be nice to have the new owner in so he can be involved in arbitration.
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
October 16, 2022 7:00 PM
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Congrats man! I was trying to chase you down for a while, and just couldn’t do it! Here’s to next season.
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Congratulations Poselicious for having a great season and being the champion of the 2022 Boys of Summer fantasy baseball league. Well done!
To all of you: I appreciate you making my job as commish an easy one. We have a great group of owners and I hope the 2022 season was the start of many more.
Have a great offseason and get ready for arbitration.
Thank You!
Tim
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
October 5, 2022 11:30 PM
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So far we have nine returning owners. Thanks for the quick replies.
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
October 4, 2022 8:28 PM
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I’ll be back
Him Edmonds on
October 4, 2022 2:47 PM
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You think this is the real Quaid?!? It is!!! I'm in.
Poseylicious on
October 3, 2022 8:44 PM
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I'm in
Bye Tork on
October 3, 2022 2:19 PM
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I'm back BABY!
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In for next year
Broken Clocks on
October 3, 2022 1:56 PM
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I'm in
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I’m in.
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I'm in for next year!
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I thought now would be a good time for roll call for 2023. Let me know whether or not you will be back by October 9th so if needed, I will have time to recruit. For those staying (I hope the two who have said they will not return will change their minds), the Arbitration period will begin October 15th. For many, this is one of the best parts of Otto and I agree that it is fun. To get an idea of the Offseason, be sure to visit Section VIII (Offseason) https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/rules#offseason
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
October 3, 2022 1:46 PM
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I WOULD JUMP BACK IN, I THINK WE ONLY HAD TWO OR THREE SHOW INTEREST HERE
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I could probably Commish. How many Chaps do we have?
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I cancelled the league due to a few things going on that will prevent me from being the commish. I'm working on a project that will keep me pretty busy and I don't have time to commish. I'll still be active and commish our Otto baseball league and I hope you all return for the 2023 season.
One manager has already advised me he won't return next year, so we'll need to fill his spot. We have a great group here and fingers crossed the rest of you will be back.
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
August 23, 2022 10:04 AM
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Blue Crew posted in the football league that he can't commish, has personal stuff going on, so he is going to cancel the league. If we still want to go at it, we would need a new commish to step in
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I just clicked on fantasy football link. First it took me to fantasy basketball league. When i tried again, it said link does not exist
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I’m hoping to get the league confirmed this week. If you intend to play, please claim a spot. This will help determine the number of owners we will need outside of our Otto league or if we will in fact have a league.
Thanks!
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
August 15, 2022 12:35 PM
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See below for details regarding our fantasy football league.
Go here to join:
https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/football/invite?invite=eyJMZWFndWVJRCI6MjIwLCJJbnZpdGVySUQiOiI4ODA1NyJ9.
Password is Football2022* (case sensitive and don't forget the asterisk at the end.
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
August 10, 2022 1:42 PM
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The football site is up and running. $50 entree. The draft date and time are not set in stone, but just a placeholder; however, hopefully the day and time that is set works.
Please consider joining, even if you've never played fantasy football or took a break. It would be great to have many of you from our baseball league join the football one.
It would be appreciated if you join within the next few days so if needed, we can invite others who are not in our Otto baseball league.
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
August 10, 2022 1:40 PM
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We’re still looking to fill out football league. This is a great time to jump into a startup dynasty league. Let me know if you want in and I’ll send the invite. Hoping to finalize owners soon. Thanks!
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
July 7, 2022 12:13 PM
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Football: Three are in so far and have joined the league site. Room for nine more. Let me know if you want in and I'll send you an invite.
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
June 25, 2022 8:20 PM
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There's an updated post on Slack related to the football league.
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
June 24, 2022 12:20 AM
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We’re at five for football. Anyone else interested? I’m thinking $50 entree. Let me know what you think. Let’s move the football talk to our Slack page so we can keep this message board about the Boys of Summer. .
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
June 15, 2022 1:11 PM
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I am interested in joining Football league as well
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I’m definitely interested in joining the football league.
Him Edmonds on
June 14, 2022 6:26 AM
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This was brought up on our Slack channel, more eyes may see it here. So far myself, Robert and Seth are interested in starting a new Otto Neu football league. You can post here or send me a message if you would like to join us. I'm open to discuss the entree fee (I prefer not to use the $20 tier) as well as which roster structure to use. I prefer a live draft. Let me/us know if you want in. Thanks!
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
June 13, 2022 6:14 PM
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@poseylicious - Good question, but I would prefer to keep the rule as is per the Otto Neu default.
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@BlueCrew - see my message in slack. Was wondering if we can make trades during that initial 24 hour period when our lineup is illegal. it was mentioned in the slack convo, but I think it would have to be explicitly approved to be allowed here. need commish to force it through if we do it.
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@Hebrew Hammers - I just took a look at your roster. I saw a lot of red writing, which is never a good sign. Hang in there, they'll come around.
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9 players currently on the IL/COVID lists...... team is doing well, lol
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Thanks to those of you who voted and offered opinions in regard to teams with illegal rosters and the maximum number of hours they will have to make their roster legal. Based on the poll and feedback, a team with an illegal roster will have 24 hours to make it legal. The time will start when the roster became illegal. If a roster is still illegal after 24 hours, then the transaction will be reversed. Thanks again for your feedback.
Blue Crew 🇺🇸 on
May 28, 2022 11:07 AM
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I’m finally getting back to post a message. My computer took a dump yesterday and I’m looking to purchase a new one. Plus a few other things happening that’s keeping me from getting back before now.
I must say that I liked reading the dialogue regarding the trade. I think MB did a great job explaining his thoughts regarding the trade and I also liked the posts by Championship Beltran and Hebrew Hammers. All posts were done in
a respectful manner. Nice MB in immediately looking to t
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One final not, I asked Chad Young his thoughts. Chad writes for Pitchers List and RotoGraphs and does multiple Ottoneu podcasts. His response:
“Depends a bit on format. In Pts leagues that's a pretty reasonably priced Soto and I can see why people think you should've gotten more. But I don't think it's bad. In roto I think you did great.”
He’s an “expert” sorts and thinks I did great!
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And just to be clear, i have no issue with anyone having an issue with the trade. I like the debates!
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Player valuations are in the eye of the beholder. I don’t personally think much of Ian Anderson. He’s all name at this point. Not much from a fantasy point of view in my opinion. So so era, whip, and not great K’s. Reminds me of Stroman who was unowned in this league. I like Bassitt, but he’s 33yrs old. I truly don’t think it’s inconceivable that Royce returns in a few weeks and mashes and Baz returns 2nd half and is better than both Anderson & Bassitt. And Carroll looms large in 2023.
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I don't love the trade, but I mostly agree with MB that absent at least a whiff of impropriety or a suggestion that we should kick out either owner for incompetence, I think owners should be left to make the deals they deem are in their own best interest. If anyone else is looking to rebuild, I've got some prospects and a willingness to deal for win now pieces.
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I do respect your ability to run your team as you see fit. And you should run it how you see fit. Just the three for three is pretty out of proportion in my opinion. Even if getting back prospects that will help your team. Soto is a top 5 talent in the game (offensively). If everyone votes then I am totally fine with the decision. Just wanted to add my two cents.
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Honestly I don’t mind the Soto for prospects move. I get the bloated price tag and needing financial flexibility moving forward. I don’t love the inclusion of the two pitchers as well. Soto for prospects makes sense. 3-for-3 makes less sense for me
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And to touch on trade partners, i reviewed each team. Only 2 teams had the cheap young prospects i would want to make a deal like this with. I tried both teams. If we rework a deal to make it “fairer” with bloated contracts that i don’t want, i’ll just end up cutting them and we are back to square 1. But doing that, i get half financial penalty which is why i preferred not to take on a “better player(s)” with contracts that would cost me money just for appearances. And that’s all i got. #vote
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Ultimately i’ve been annoyed at trades like this in the past, so i can’t completely dismiss that. But beyond collusion or an insanely erratic owner making a million different trades that contradict each other, i think each owner should be given that rope to run his organization as he see fits. I have a plan. I should be allowed to execute it.
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I’ve seen these trades a million times and in a year from now, i may just look like the clear clear winner. Carroll is currently regarded as the next #1 prospect w/ other recent promotions. Royce showed he belongs. He will be back up soon and help this yr and for many yrs to come. And Shane B was thought of more highly than Shane M and look what he is doing. I wasn’t going to find many suitors that made sense with $67 Soto. I tried one other team, but they seemed reluctant to part w/ prospects
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My defense: Prior to voting, here me out. However vote goes, I’ll abide. But i’ve been doing this a long time. 1yr of the Ott specifically and I caught on quickly. I inherited a trash team that i’m looking to turn around for 2023. Soto at his price is useless to me. And also, incredibly difficult to move at that #. Who could afford to take him without passing me back awful contracts (which defeats the purpose). I got 3 top prospects very-to-relatively cheap. Pieces i can keep or flip easily.
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As the commish, I’m usually hesitant to post before hearing what other managers have to say. But, this trade did raise my eyebrows.
Every manager can click on the trade to view it and vote to allow or deny the trade.
For any trade, I would encourage owners to visit that link when a new trade has been posted.
Oftentimes, managers will post a trade on Slack to gather opinions from other Otto managers.
#vote
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Okay, I do not usually say anything about a trade that goes through. But this most recent trade to be made it borderline absurd. Soto, Bassit, and Anderson for three prospects is absolutely ridiculous. I get it that one team gets to dump a lot of salary. But that is just absolutely ridiculous to me. Not sure we can do anything about it, but I had to at least say something.
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I posted a poll on our Slack page. Please take a minute to visit and vote.
In regard to the podcast I mentioned on Slack, there's a great segment on rosters, specifically illegal ones. It begins at the 17:45 mark and worth a listen.
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I figured it was something like that. Thank you!
Bye Tork on
May 23, 2022 6:17 PM
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When you have a player on the 60 day IL, Covid list, or Suspended you are able to roster an additional player. Looks like you have several in that category so you can add a few extra guys temporarily. You would just have to release them as those guys come back from injury and such.
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