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Thanks all!
El Abanico on
October 4, 2024 12:54 PM
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Congrats to all! And thanks to our fearless leader! I have a lead on a potential new manager. I'll keep you posted.
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Great season, everyone. Congrats El Abanico on the win!
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I know Cleveland's manager is dropping out for next year, so we'll also be on the lookout for a new manager. Let me know if you know of anyone who may be interested or I will open the vacancy to the public if we don't have any candidates before allocations start.
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Belated congratulations to El Abanico, Birds of War, and St. Elmo for making up our podium this year. Payouts should be distributed automatically but let me know if you see any issues with the site. For the rest of us looking ahead to 2025, allocations will open on the site starting October 15 and run through November 1 - it's your best opportunity to level the playing field with teams that have had more success and force teams to make tough keeper decisions about running back the same roster.
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😂😂😂
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And I would do those trades again (except for the Semien one)
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I mean guys come on… these trades are wild lol. Ramirez, Freeman, now Skubal? Papi gave up his entire team already what more does he need to win haha?!?!
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Hope everyone has enjoyed our short interlude. Just a reminder that (the real) opening day is tomorrow, so be sure to check your lineups!
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YES. He definitely bet on sports, right??? Felt inevitable with how hard the leagues are advertising sports betting, but still kinda shocking the first star offender was Ohtani and they tried to pin it on his interpreter.
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Anyone else extremely fascinated by this crazy Ohtani story?
Richmond Sox on
March 21, 2024 4:16 PM
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The draft is officially complete and all rosters have been imported. Double check players and prices to be sure, but they should be accurate. I see a few teams have already started trading - everyone else is now open for business, and be sure to set lineups before tomorrow's season opener game in Korea!
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I can't stop an auction in progress on this site but FYI if you want to bid on Salvador Perez, the Couch Managers auction will be how his price and ownership is determined and not the auction here.
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Fascinated to learn why Josh Naylor was auto-inserted to a relief pitcher slot.
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Draft is live! All teams have up to two nominations, for a max of 24 simultaneous auctions. Don’t forget to set notifications and use max bids if you don’t want to have to keep checking the site all day.
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Keepers are locked and loaded for 11 teams so far. If we get the 12th in today, I'm hoping to start the draft around 8am ET tomorrow morning, with players on 12 hour initial timers for auction and 6 hour minimum clock resets for new high bids. You can enter blind max bids (like ebay) if you want to avoid getting outbid, and can check the box to receive email notifications when you do get outbid. Timers will stop for 8 hours overnight from 12pm - 8am ET but bids can still be entered while stopped
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Thanks for setting this up!
El Abanico on
March 5, 2024 2:17 PM
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Quick reminder to join the draft page at the link below using the password "dadrock" and change your team name to match your name here. Once we're all loaded in we can get the draft started - maybe Friday? Games start March 20th.
https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=813
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Hey Everyone, less than a month until the season starts so it's time to set up the draft. I've created a slow auction on Couch Managers at the link below. Please sign in join the auction using the password 'dadrock'. There's a link at bottom right on desktop or in the settings tab on mobile to Edit Team Name - please match team name to your name here on Ottoneu so that I can import rosters seamlessly and we can draft next week! https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=813
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Welcome! Now that the league is fully loaded I'll get a couch managers draft set up in the coming weeks and we can import rosters to be ready for a March 11th start date.
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Hi all, I just claimed Winners, despite them being in the losers bracket. I'm very active owner and love wheelin and dealin, looking forward to the 2024 season!
El Abanico on
February 8, 2024 2:41 PM
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Was just made aware that there are MLB games in Korea that count for the season on March 20 and 21, so we should start the draft by Monday, March 11th instead.
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Thanks for making cuts! We have 153 open roster spots that can be filled in the draft. With a slow draft, that should take approximately 5-6 days. Opening Day is March 28, so I propose we schedule the slow draft to start Monday, March 18th at 7am ET. Last year it worked pretty well to set initial timers at 12 hours and rebids reset to max 4 hours with clock freezing overnight 12am-7am ET. With 2 nominations per team to start and increase to 3 once the big names are depleted a bit.
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Another reminder that tomorrow is the deadline to make cuts before the draft, as well as the deadline to pay your buy-ins for this year.
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Remember to pay the league fee and select keepers by next week's January 31 deadline. There's also still time to trade guys who you would otherwise cut.
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Today is the last day of arbitration and only 2 teams have completed it. If you haven’t started, you have about 16 hours today to get it done.
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Arbitration is now open until November 15th using the Arbitration tab in the league menu bar - as in years past, you'll need to allocate $25 total dollars with a min of $1 and a max of $3 to each team.
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I agree, vacate all titles (following disbursements of course)
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Thanks Jeff. Ottoneu is clearly a superior format to yahoo. In fact, all previous titles should be vacated.
Birds of War on
October 5, 2023 12:25 PM
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Congrats to Andy! His guys picked a great time to get hot.
If anyone liked the ottoneu experience and wants to pick up a second team, Dan and my other league has two openings for next season. It's a simple 5x5 category roto league with no prize money and both available teams look like they could be quite good right away next season:
https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/724/team?team=5083
https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/724/team?team=5105
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Strike that last message. I forgot that our league does not have a two-week finale (due to teams shutting down star players that last week):
2-Week Championship: No
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For those in a two-week matchup for the final round of the playoffs, note the following rule: I. e. iv. In two-week playoff games, the GS cap will reset at the end of the first week and before the second week begins on the second Monday in the matchup.
So you get 10 SP starts in Week 1 and then it resets back to 10 for Week 2 on Monday morning.
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Reminder that the trade deadline is tonight at midnight!
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The Birds of War are so good that our benched players throw perfect games.
Birds of War on
June 29, 2023 2:24 PM
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Blaming all the HBPs on the pitch clock. I think we are also leading in pitchers giving up HRs so it evens out lol
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It appears HBP is a category on which final weekly scores are calculated. Shout out to Tap Man and the Catch for running away with that category.
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So is HBP still a stat that matters for us?
Richmond Sox on
June 21, 2023 12:43 PM
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Auctions
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No, I love ottoneu.
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@Tapman I'm not gonna lie to you, I still don't even know how the scoring works. I just nod along daily while setting my lineup pretending I get it.
Richmond Sox on
April 20, 2023 10:10 AM
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Does anybody else think it’s ridiculous that pitchers get -12 points for giving up a HR?????Fundamentally a solo HR is the same as 2 singles where the second single knocks in an RBI.
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Playoff seeding is based on record with total season points as a tiebreaker
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Question on final standings -- is it by record or points we get into playoffs?
Richmond Sox on
April 11, 2023 8:29 AM
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Yeah hitters can’t control if players happen to get on base ahead of them but HBP is a skill apparently. HRs do count as extra points since that is a run batted in regardless of luck.
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Oh wow - did not realize that. Whoops!
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I think the system only tracks stats that count towards scoring. Somehow HBP gets points but RBIs don’t
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Hey commish - is there any way to change the stats showing up on the lineup homepage? I'm seeing Hit by Pitch, but not RBI. Don't get me wrong, HBP is a fascinating category. But...well...
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So to add a player, it's a 48 hour auction?
Richmond Sox on
April 5, 2023 11:17 AM
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I don't know if there are limits to how well it works, because I paid $22 for Reid Detmers when the calculator says he'll be worth $10 but inflation was 110%... and it's now the most anyone across all of ottoneu is paying Reid Detmers (I also own the most expensive Brandon Woodruff on all of ottoneu so RIP my pitching staff).
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Our draft had the highest inflation I've seen since using it because we all have such valuable keepers from Yahoo - the rate was over 110% at one point. But by the middle of the draft when guys the calculator says are worth $0 or $1 were going for $8-10, the inflation came down a lot and I think we finished with pretty close to no inflation on the last few players ($1 guys were really available for $1).
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