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Hey all. We have 2 open teams that have been marked abandoned. If you know anyone...
Schwarbombs on
October 2, 2023 12:52 PM
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Congrats Acuna!
Schwarbombs on
October 2, 2023 12:01 PM
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Congrats Acuna! U-30's long rebuild starting to pay dividends. Still the most competitive Otto league I have been in. Kudos to everyone.
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Congrats Acuña! Big shoutout to Dale and U-30 for placing. I've let the commish know I won't be back in 2024 (this is the year I finally cut back on my leagues!), but I had a lot of fun competing with everyone here and being part of such a long-running league.
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Congrats Acuña! I tried to catch you, but your hitters were unstoppable this year.
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Looks like my terrible pitching and bad auction performance couldn't keep my team down. Fun year everyone.
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Good season all.
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Welcome Zombie Runners!
Schwarbombs on
September 4, 2023 9:50 PM
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Communication update. Bayside has been officially marked as abandoned per their request.
Schwarbombs on
September 4, 2023 11:18 AM
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Hey All, Bayside has decided to move on. Does anyone know of someone looking to take over a team? lmk
Schwarbombs on
August 28, 2023 4:48 PM
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ah yes. Good reminder. Thanks!
Schwarbombs on
August 25, 2023 4:25 PM
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Hey terrible, isn't there a 4th league rules to get your roster legal within 24 hours of it becoming illegal. Because that was used on me while waiting for a player to get picked up from waivers. I had to drop an additional player instead.
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Why couldn't it have been cancelled yesterday? It's frustrating that now no form of the trade will probably happen, cash regardless. At least I keep my young cash locked players.
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We've had a good amount of manager turnover in the past few years, so these things get lost in the shuffle.
Let's have a discussion of what changes we want for 2024.
Schwarbombs on
August 22, 2023 11:06 AM
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PTBNL and I should have posted the bylaws at the beginning of the season. I will be sure to do this every spring to avoid any additional issues around the topics.
1. Jose Fernandez clause. If a player dies, they can be cut penalty free
2. Tommy John clause. If a player goes out with TJ before opening day, they can be cut penalty free
3. Cash Cap clause. No more than $25 can be exchanged in a trade
Anything missing?
Schwarbombs on
August 22, 2023 11:06 AM
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Honestly the money is weird, I don’t understand why having 50$ in cap room at this point matters other than ensuring everyone auctioned from this point has an unreasonable cost. The reason to have cap space at this point is to make trades like this. After you do it why need more?
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Yeah. It was nice playing with you guys. Thanks for the learning experience
Del Unser on
August 22, 2023 3:09 AM
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Where is a condensed version of the rules? I’m not really keen on looking through 12 years of messages.
Del Unser on
August 22, 2023 3:06 AM
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*unless the consensus says otherwise.
Schwarbombs on
August 22, 2023 12:06 AM
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If you are against the reworked trades, please use your veto powers.
If any other managers have input on this matter, please share.
Should we create any new bylaws for the 2024 season?
I will cancel this trade by 10p ET tomorrow night
Schwarbombs on
August 22, 2023 12:05 AM
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This league has maintained its integrity by doing our best to make ethical and democratic decisions. Based on the 2015 cash cap rule, this trade should be canceled by either commissioner. The teams are free to rework the deal with no more than $25 cash in a trade.
Schwarbombs on
August 22, 2023 12:05 AM
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So, I just checked. I have to offer a player, but I can give him a player plus salary after the trade goes through to even it based on league rules. Don't mind doing that at all. We can pass back and forth a prospect with cash to make it work if the commish can't manually re-adjust.
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I’ve made offers and had all these players on the block too. It’s not like I haven’t been shopping.
Del Unser on
August 21, 2023 8:49 PM
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Who cares about how much someone has coming in for loans at this point of the season besides long term equity. He is getting two salary cap locked young players who are performing for two over paid rentals. Like, that's the essence of how trades towards the end of a season tend to work, here and in the real world.
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It's not circumventing the salary cap at all, we both have the extra cash. The trade has enough $ only to make the trade a net zero. It's okay for you to say you're in second place and vetoed because the trade helps me competitively. The vetos don't need a reason. I would do the same in your place. Ultimately, I made the trade for the rental players to help push me to get first. It's still a gamble. I just wanted to keep salary open for drops, if any happen.
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I vetoed the initial trade and would likely veto two separate trades with the same players and money involved. There are a few reasons for this.
1. The historical precedent that commish mentioned
2. Acuna already has $21 in incoming loans, and whether 1 or 2 trades, it would be a crazy $76 in incoming loans; this is an extreme circumventing of the salary cap
3. Acuna has $49 of cap space pre-trade, so why not just trade the same players and offer just enough cap space to keep a
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Can we make a trade for the cash back with no players involved? I don't know if the mechanics work that way. I can always write off 5$ of the space as well. Bayside and I don't mind doing what's right. No I'll intent or rule skirting was intended. Sorry!
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Ultimately I see that it’s a nuisance to rework the trade when it’ll all come out in the wash. Just trying to keep things on the up and up!
If other managers have thoughts and opinions or want to rework this rule, please feel free to share your thoughts.
2015 was awhile ago and we’ve had quite a bit of turnover since then.
Schwarbombs on
August 21, 2023 1:47 PM
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Got it. The cash isn't the part the matters and the playing time of a couple of days matters for the trade to make sense. Sorry we forgot about that. Cancel the trade immediately so we can relist two separate trades within the leagues bounds. Thanks! It will have a $5 net difference, but all the same players will move, just split into two trades.
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So we can split it up into two trades and subtract 5$ but with each of our excess cap space, both over 50$ without much to spend it on, it would functionally not change anything about this trade. Except a day or two delayed.
Del Unser on
August 21, 2023 11:13 AM
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What if we do two trades?
Del Unser on
August 21, 2023 10:33 AM
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Hi All, Doing Commish work here. Sorry. In August of 2015 (yes. I went back in the threads), this league decided that we would not allow loans of more than $25 in a trade and we have gone with that since then. That puts the Acuna Bros/Bayside trade out of bounds. Please discuss.
Schwarbombs on
August 21, 2023 10:15 AM
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Also selling Reynolds for prospect or low cost player.
Del Unser on
July 28, 2023 10:25 PM
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Im selling cap space for prospects.
Del Unser on
June 28, 2023 2:09 PM
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Nice, thanks! Good to know.
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And it is an official Ottoneu rule as well.
Each team shall during the regular season maintain a roster of 22 major-league players that can fill out a starting lineup as defined below. The remaining 18 roster spots can be used for reserves, consisting of both major and minor leaguers.
A roster of 22 major-league players capable of filling out a starting lineup as defined below shall be maintained regardless of any games started, games played or innings limits.
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It has always been a rule that you can’t have a team of 40 prospects which is what the rule is there for.
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Just curious, why do you need to have a roster of active players? Why can't you punt a position if you want to? Not that I am, just that's a new rule we haven't had before. Sure, you need to be under the cap. Maybe I am misunderstanding what you're saying. It's weird to enforce restrictive rules that aren't part of the system or agreed upon by the group.
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Nice competitive first month here. Just a note, there are innings & game caps. Also please keep a legal roster which means that you can field a team of ACTIVE major league players in your lineup.
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It's a sad day for team names 😭
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It feels like 2019 all over again with the offense!
Del Unser on
April 5, 2023 7:28 PM
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My pitchers got -60 points yesterday. That's good, right? It's like golf? Oh... Oh no.
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Happy Opening Day!
Schwarbombs on
March 30, 2023 12:12 PM
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Fun trade. Lots of risk and upside on both sides
Del Unser on
March 29, 2023 11:55 AM
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Just a quick update. Please make sure you are able to field a team of ACTIVE major league players in your lineup when the season starts. Illegal rosters should be rectified within 24 hours. Good luck all
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Great auction, everyone. Anyone interested in a $17 Edwin Diaz?? (maybe if you're rebuilding?) I'm looking for MI and SP help.
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Good luck tonight everyone.
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Can’t wait for the draft! Going to be a fun one.
Del Unser on
February 24, 2023 2:33 AM
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Baseball Christmas/Chanukah/Diwali/Lunar New Year is in less than a month away! Get excited!!
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Ok. Draft date and time is set and final cuts have been made. Happy Draft season!
Schwarbombs on
February 22, 2023 4:53 PM
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