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Agreed we definitely need to do it before the season starts no matter how many trams we have.
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Only 2.5 weeks until opening day. We need to get a draft scheduled even if there are vacant teams. I have only 14 players on my roster, so without a draft I will be out of contention within a couple weeks into the season.
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Welcome to the league! Thanks for claiming one of the vacant teams.
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Welcome to the league! Thanks for claiming a team and joining us.
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Hi all, I just claimed SpaHa. I've played Ottoneu before; looking forward to the season. I'll get my round of cuts done asap.
Exeter Velos on
March 16, 2022 10:17 PM
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I think there are 4 vacant teams right? Ryan, Vin, SpaHa and Fairhaven?
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The 3 vacant teams are at least have full rosters. They can be adopted after the season is going and new owners can make their cuts to get them legal. What does the group think? Maybe we could get a consensus on whether to have clearly overpriced players on the illegal rosters cut? Or just leave them? I dunno.
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We should get a draft scheduled even without all 12 teams. We are going to run out of time if we wait much longer. A 9 team draft at least let’s us start the season opening day. We could at least get our rosters going, and get some trades in before the season starts.
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Yes it is, will be nice to get an auction scheduled once full and unfreeze everything in this league again.
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Just 3 more owners needed. That’s much better than a few weeks back. We will get there.
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Welcome to the league! Thanks for picking up a team, looking forward to a good season and all the talent that will be available at the auction. Always open to talking trades/baseball and happy to answer any questions about the Ottoneu format.
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Welcome Rake! We have two other owners that are new to Ottoneu as well, Flying Squirrels and Northbrook Teflon. If you have any questions we do have some very experienced and responsive owners here as well, so feel free to ask questions any time.
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Hi all, found the league just scrolling through teams to claim and it seems like you guys have good activity, plus west coast times were appealing. A little about me, this is my first time playing ottoneu, but I've been playing fantasy baseball for over a decade and I'm a big Padres fan, so taking over Cronengirth seemed appropriate. Looking forward to a fun season, whenever it actually starts.
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Haha all good suggestions. I'll think about it and come up with one soon.
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“Flying Squirrels Sr.”?
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Or “Flying Squirrels 2”. Maybe “Original Flying Squirrels”
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Colugos too
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Flying Lemurs are similar to flying squirrels.
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Welcome to the league! As far as a new name, why not try "Soaring Spermophiles"???
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Thanks for welcoming me back! I was in this league for 4 or 5 years as the owner of Flying Squirrels then dropped trying to cut back on how many leagues I was in, but Winnetka and Spa convinced me to come back this year. Going to have to think of a new name now! In all my years of doing Ottoneu I've only ever been the Flying Squirrels!
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Everyone welcome the original Flying Squirrels who have taken over Moose Wrastlers.
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No problem. I support Squirrels’ request.
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Agreed let him cut whoever he wants , all good đź‘Ť
Wreckers on
February 23, 2022 9:35 PM
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Squirrels is asking the league if we can give him a mulligan and cut one more player to make his roster legal? Since Squirrels is brand new to the format and considering we still need six new owners I would think the best course is to let him cut one player to get his team under the cap.
Winnetka Twins on
February 23, 2022 9:00 PM
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The issue is that you have to have at least $1 available per roster space available. So you’re under the $400 cap by $1 but not within the guidelines because you have 14 roster spaces available so you would need to be at least $14 under the cap to be valid. Hope that helps clarify things.
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Hi I’m really confused how I ended up over cap, my screen says I’m at 399 of 400 but I guess I must have made a mistake. Will you allow me to drop a player without penalty? I would really appreciate it. I’m new to this whole thing. Thanks
PickOff Picks on
February 22, 2022 9:58 PM
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I have tried. I think the MLB-MLBPA fight is making baseball an afterthought. Hard to get people excited about Ottoneu when nobody knows when baseball will start. I also think the labor dispute makes it seem less like a relaxing, fun game to watch. I asked team owners in other leagues, and a couple friends of mine but I can’t seem to sell anyone on baseball right now. Sad.
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Any progress on recruiting new teams?
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I think we should most definitely wait until the league is full. It could be a strong selling point to attract new owners to have an upcoming auction.
Winnetka Twins on
February 15, 2022 1:22 AM
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It would be best to wait for all 12 teams to be owned. But what if we get close to opening day and still have vacant teams? I think we should at least have a draft before the season starts. We all paid $20, and might as well have some fun, even if the league winds up being half full.
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I do wonder a bit at what point would the league just maybe close down, like if we get to opening week and still haven't drafted and have a handful of abandoned teams still. Just wouldn't be the same as playing with a full league.
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Yeah I think it probably wouldn't be good for league dynamics/economics to have only 5-6 teams drafting with the other 6-7 totally absent. Would just create more disparity and one sided teams I'm afraid. Plus if held before these teams are claimed the auction pool would be less since there's probably a decent amount of cuts on the unoccupied teams.
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You should wait till league is full , not fair to do it sooner , plus with the lockout no rush
Wreckers on
February 12, 2022 7:20 PM
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What worries me in this league is that if we hold a draft with 6 teams absent, the 6 teams will be all that much less attractive to adopt. But if we wait, we might not have a draft for months. How long do we wait? Should we just hold a draft soon and let the chips fall where they may?
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It very well could be. Spring Training delays could just be the start. It also doesn’t help that a massive number of expired teams showed up on the claim a team page today after the 10 day grace period to pay expired. Haven’t counted but could be a hundred teams to choose from right now.
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We need 6 new team owners. I have asked around in other leagues but haven’t been able to get anybody else onboard. I wonder if if the lockout is such a downer for fantasy baseball that we will struggle to get a full slate of owners.
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As an alternative, I could trade Corey Seager $32 as well.
Winnetka Twins on
February 9, 2022 12:36 PM
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I'm looking to trade Stanton $31 and W Contreras $13. Looking for something of value that is cheap. I could be talked into trading Betts $43 or Buehler $30, but that would take considerably more.
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I’m planning to cut Nelson Cruz, Miguel Sano and Kyle Lewis. If you like any of them at their prices, I’d take any player with any keeper value.
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Welcome to the league!
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Hey everyone! My name is Max and am a friend of WinnetkaTwins. Love my team so not looking for trades at the moment. However always all ears if price is right ……
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Nelson Cruz 2021: Max-exit-velo-99th percentile. Avg-exit-velo-93%. Barrel-rate-85%. Hard-hit-rate-94%. Still an elite hitter at age 41. My team can’t really contend, so he is a luxury I can’t see helping me much this year. Available for the best offer, so if any contenders want to lick down Util, and have any sort of future value, I’d love to work something out.
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We need a draft date. I know we still have empty teams but it sure helps planning if we set draft dates early so we can keep our schedules clear.
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Sounds good. Also welcome to the new owner of Flying Squirrels as well! If anyone has questions about the rules, scoring format or just want to talk baseball/trades feel free to let me know!
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Full disclosure, the new owner is a friend of mine, so I encourage extra scrutiny for trades between his team and mine. Also he is new to this format so try to be patient and not prey on him too much.
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Awesome, I see one already. Welcome to the league new owner of Yadier Outta Here.
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We should be getting a new owner or two in the next few days.
Winnetka Twins on
February 4, 2022 12:03 PM
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Everybody on my trade block is on my probable CUT list. If anyone sees them as keepers, maybe you have someone you might cut that I could use. Win-win? Let me know.
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Welcome to the league Fairhaven, Wreckers and TBNL! I’m pretty sure I can get someone else outside of Ottoneu to join. That would leave four vacancies.
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We are down to 5 vacant teams. That is better than it was a week ago. Does anybody know people from other leagues who would adopt a team. There are some decent rosters on a couple of the vacant teams.
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