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Ottoneu rolled out a few changes to the platform. Only one pertains to our league, and that is a new Auto-eject feature. Seems like a pretty good addition. You can read more at this link: https://community.ottoneu.com/t/planned-baseball-gameplay-changes-for-2020-gp-ip-cap-changes-and-auto-eject-option/6736
No one voiced any concern over having the auction draft on Sunday, March 22 at 5:00 pm. Please put that in your calendars as that will be the time and day we do it unless someone objects.
Viva El Gallo on
January 21, 2020 3:03 PM
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Hey fellas, I'm home from work for the day and likely in all night evaluating my roster, so I encourage you to text me to talk trades and such @ (636) 578-5028. I'm very flexible and potentially willing to take on some salary, since I have some space. Let's talk trade!!
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Quick update: Keeper Deadline is January 31. Following the keeper deadline, a team salary must never exceed $360 + the number of players on the roster (a trade with a loan will allow you to exceed this limit). We are aiming to have the auction draft on Sunday, March 22 at 5:00 pm central standard time. For the new guys, I would plan around 3 hours for the auction draft. If this day or time does not work for you, please send me a text message.
Viva El Gallo on
January 13, 2020 1:11 PM
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Looking to move Bauer. Buy low timing. Reunited with Boddy and Driveline in Reds FO. Could be monster year with Reds scoring runs.
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Hey sorry guys, been a little slow finally getting around to this! Know some of you have sent me trade requests, didn't know my roster well enough at the time. Please re-send. Open to all trade inquiries. Looking to trade SS and OF..... team needs: RP/SP.
513-722-5835
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Salary adjustments have been made. If you are curious, you can use the following link (https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvj8dx11w4q0moz/Allocations.png?dl=0) to see what allocations Starting From the Bottom made. The only change in this link is the allocation to Eduardo Rodriguez (The Syndicate) will be $1 instead of 2 and a $1 allocation to Patrick Corbin (Kuhl Krushers) was added. Please let me know if I have incorrectly adjusted a salary.
Viva El Gallo on
November 20, 2019 10:41 PM
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Just an FYI... One of our new owners (Starting From the Bottom) forgot to put allocations towards one team, and because of this, none of his allocations counted. I'm going to manually adjust player salaries per his requested allocations (I will post the allocations on this message board so everyone is aware of the dollar amounts). The same allocation rules will apply as usual (max $3 per team, $25 overall). I would recommend not cutting any players until after this is completed...
Viva El Gallo on
November 19, 2019 8:53 AM
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This team did not deserve to be there haha. They played out of their minds and had a guy named Jack Flaherty carry them the 2nd half. Was a great run for em, overachieved tremendously and it will only unfortunately force ownership and upper management to lay their own egg moving forward and falsely make them believe they are world series contenders
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Probably jinxing it, but wow! Did the Cards just lay the biggest egg in NLCS history?
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Happy Arb day...the key dates for the upcoming season can be found here: https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/13/calendar ... if anyone has questions about arbitration, please do not hesitate to ask me or anyone in the league who has been here for a few years. Just FYI, there are some good explanations if you visit the rules page (top right corner) or google "ottoneu arbitration". You all have 1 month to complete your allocations.
Viva El Gallo on
October 15, 2019 9:07 AM
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Good luck to all of you Cards fans out there today, been a crazy series so far...!
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Throw in a foam tomahawk and I’ll consider it
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Branham I’ll trade you Touki Toussaint for a grilled cheese
JakesFunny on
October 8, 2019 7:55 PM
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Braves fan, huh? Go Cards!!
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welcome conor, eric, and branham! glad to have you all on board.. can’t wait for arb to start and kick off the 2020 season!
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I can promise I will always be engaged as an owner, so I will promptly reply to messages and trade offers, and will send counters or at least give reasons for any rejections....I live for trades, so feel free to blast my inbox, good luck this season!
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Hey guys, thanks for letting me join! Looks like I have got some work to do, so expect plenty of offers from The Syndicate when the window opens! (I’m a sucker for Braves players, fyi)
Branham
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Commish, can you get us the new owners phone numbers?
Kuhl Krushers on
October 8, 2019 5:14 PM
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Good news, we have filled all of our open spots in the league. Welcome Branham who will be taking over Shildt Happens and welcome Eric who will be taking over Starting From the Bottom. We now have a full league heading into 2020. Arbitration begins on October 15.
Viva El Gallo on
October 8, 2019 4:54 PM
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Welcome everyone! I can definitely tell we had more full-season involvement this year than in any of the other 4/5 years we've had this league. I wanna say we had 9-10 owners never really pack it in. So super excited to maybe get those last 2 or 3 under new ownership and hopefully have full season involvement from all 12 teams. Looking forward to 2020.
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Hey all..just a quick update. Jason's team (formerly La Flama Blanca) is currently under new ownership. Welcome Conor Gilligan to the league. Congrats to Conor on the opportunity to take over one of the friendliest inheritable teams in recent years. We have found another owner who will be taking over Jimmy's team (formerly Starting From the Bottom). We are looking to add one more owner who will be taking over Trevor's team (Shildt Happens). If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
Viva El Gallo on
October 7, 2019 1:08 PM
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Trades can be made after arbitration ends, so mid-November.
Viva El Gallo on
October 4, 2019 8:08 AM
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I forget from the last few years. When can we start making trades again?
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Ugh.... I hate that bronze trophy by my team name!!!! I'm in for next year and looking forward to the offseason arbitration and wheeling and dealing. I know some owners may be on their way out. Give it a second thought and reevaluate your team. I would hope most of you would stick around. Also hope we can find more good owners that will be in it for the long haul. If not, I volunteer to pick up a second team. I'm a fantasy junkie. Later fellas, Gregg
Kuhl Krushers on
October 1, 2019 10:26 AM
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Ohh and thank you La Flama! I appreciate you, hope you stay and play next year!
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We have a great league boys. Greg, Blake, Bennett and Austin make this league what it is. They continuously put up numbers year in and year out, which makes it even more fun. To the newcomers, I hope you enjoyed the process and if it’s any proof that rebuilding works, it took me 3 years to build my team. Restocking is kinda fun and rebuilding was a nice challenge. Baseball is the best. Enjoy the postseason gents! Go Dodgers!
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Good season men! Congrats top 3. Three teams cracking 19k is no joke. I'm Short was 10th in Fangraph Points on the Global Leaderboard. He completely dominated this league. Nice work!!
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Seriously. I feel awful about my comment last night Blake. You do make it fun. This league is awesome because it seems everyone is invested. If you guys want to send me packing, I will understand. I don't normally say stuff that makes me look a fool. Again, I apologize.
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Sorry for the last post. I had way too much to drink yesterday!
I like this league. Slow Ball, i truly apologize!
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ELE reminds me of Busta Rymes.
Slow Ball, you make it not fun. You pretend you are all in, but if you have a bad draft... it's all over.
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ELE... Everybody Love Everybody
no more negative comments on here from anyone (including me)... this is a fun, positive league with smart baseball peoples
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1400 haha.. definitely something the 10th place team should be posting to brag about. If only he had grabbed Derrick Rodriguez a few weeks back 😜
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So what am I supposed to do when every single one of my pitchers went on the DL this season
JakesFunny on
September 29, 2019 6:05 PM
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1400 was innings limit la flams to not have to pay extra money, he hit that.
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Wtf are you talking about? You missed all of your games and innings limits.
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With no help from you La Flama, I hit my innings mark with a strong Saturday.
No extra $$ coming from me this season. Boo ya!
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Looking towards next year...I need to know by this Sunday at 10:00 pm who is planning on not returning to the league next year. I know a few have talked about leaving mid year, but please send me another message to confirm you are not returning. If I don't get a message from you by this Sunday at 10, I'm just going to assume you would like to play in the league next year. We will operate 100% under normal Ottoneu rules this off-season.
Viva El Gallo on
September 25, 2019 8:36 PM
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Yeah, hopefully next year. I think I have a good core. We shall see.
(My last reply to Slow Ball, wasn't meant to be rude. If it was taken that way, I apologize.)
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Man, brutal crowd today lol
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Bummer this season didn’t work out for you Lickety...
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Gotcha. Bummer it didn't work out for you.
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he was supposed to start against the marlins but then news came out right before the auction ended that he would move to the bullpen... plus he was already a $1 cap hit for me so picking him up saved me $1... cutting him again just puts me back to square one with a $1 cap hit... your cap hits that cost $1 that you can reauction are essentially free...no money lost, no dollar wasted all for what was supposed to be a marlins stream start...careful stepping to someone that’s smart...
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So... you know you messed up since you are not explaining why. Figured it out!
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between my finishes of 1st, 2nd, 4th, 1st, and 2nd... i think there’s a pretty good reason why the events unfolded the way they did with dereck... i’ll let you figure it out...
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Slow ball, did you really waste a dollar on Dereck? You already dropped him for a dollar. Unless I am mistaken, it is worthless to auction a guy that is only worth a dollar that you already dropped at that cost.
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Terrific year. Big thanks to Austin for being on top of everything. It is not easy to be commish. I hope next year is just as exciting. Can’t wait for playoff baseball coming up!
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Totally agree. I think this year has been the most enjoyable year thus far (Even though my pitching has failed me the last month and a half). More activity has definitely made the auctions and trade blocks more interesting and has allowed even the bottom teams to hang on for a rebuild longer. Let's keep it up next year!
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Overall, I think we should be very happy with the involvement in the league this year. It's pretty crazy to go back to previous years to see the amount of improvement in 2019. To add to that, Ottoneu posted a site-wide ranking in July and our league was the 13th best FGPTS 12 team league on the site (out of 141). If I recall correctly, we were around 70 a few years back. 13th is not easy to do, as there are some great leagues out there. I am looking forward to the rest of this year and beyond.
Viva El Gallo on
September 10, 2019 1:45 PM
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Hey all, we have about 3 weeks left of the MLB season to go. I just want to remind you of the innings pitched/games played requirements. These requirements are: Catcher: 130 games played OF: 750 games played All other positions: 140 games played 1400 innings pitched If your team fails to meet any of these requirements by the end of the year, you will have to pay a fee equal to $10 multiplied by the final standing of your team. It appears that there are 2-3 teams that are in danger of this.
Viva El Gallo on
September 10, 2019 1:43 PM
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Nelson Cruz or Encarnacion before the deadline tomorrow anybody
JakesFunny on
August 30, 2019 4:35 PM
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