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294.1 points in a day by the Bears. Wow.
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“ If two teams are tied or the regular season has not begun yet, a coin flip will determine who is awarded the player.”
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I believe it is considered a "tie", which is broken by "coin flip's according to the site rules
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How are auction ties determined if two people make the same bid, before the season starts?
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That was fast. The Korea series will NOT be counted for us because we draft after those games. Sucks for me just as much as anyone cause I’m likely to lose some points that way, but it’s hard enough to schedule a draft around 12 people’s schedules, so I’d just leave it be.
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Ya know what, I actually don’t know. Maybe chippy does but for my part, I think I saw opening day listed on MLB’s site as 3/28 not realizing that series is before then. I’ll see if I can find out from Niv if those games would apply retroactively or if we’ll just skip them
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Apologies if I missed this before joining the league, but are we not counting the Dodgers-Padres series in Korea as a part of our season?
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Cut deadline on Wednesday, folks. Get em in or be stuck with your bums until the season starts
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Based on feedback, I locked in the draft for SAT March 23rd 11a est
Keeper deadline/end of offseason trading is Jan 31st
Let's keep the hot stove hot
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Welcome!
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Hello all, excited to join the league. Always open to trade ideas, looking forward to the season!
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Happy new year, everyone! Just a heads up that Blue Jays decided to step away. I’ve abandoned his team. If anyone knows anyone who would like to pick up a team, feel free to let them know. If I am remembering correctly, that’s the old WAR Children roster and it’s as strong as any abandoned team roster I think is out there
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Both March 23rd and 24th are fine for me.
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I am good with either day.
👹 Wendigos 👹 on
December 27, 2023 4:28 PM
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Either day works for me
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Any time on March 23 works for me.
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Whatever the majority decides is fine with me
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Saturdays are not the greatest option for me, but I can make it work if the league decides.
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Earlier is better than later for me on the 23rd. Also available all day on the 24th.
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Aliens are on earth all day to league's convenience. Thank you for being pro active
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looking at 3/23 for ideal draft day-- anyone have any conflicts with that day? Any times they can't make it?
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That's awesome! Go Cary-Grove!
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I realize this is a baseball site, however I want to point out that Cary-Grove HS just won the Illinois class 6A football championship for the second time in three years.
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Congrats to Danconia and Gnome (of course) for getting the first trade done! Let's have a busy offseason
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Gnomes are ready. No moss grows under gnomes paws. I always promptly respond. Have fun to all.
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arbitration is almost over, which means the hot stove is heating up! offseason trading starts when arb ends... just a reminder that you need to have paid dues for the upcoming season to be able to make ANY changes to your roster, including trades-- so now would be a great time to pay dues for 2024 and enjoy an active offeseason
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Thank you to Gnome who gave me a heads up regarding the opening. He and I compete (in a friendly manner) in a couple of H2H leagues.
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Thanks, I am looking forward to my first non-H2H Ottoneu league. I'm hoping that I can keep the learning curve fairly short.
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Welcome to the league, Cheese Balls!
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Hey everyone, just a quick heads up they Yu Yu Yu (and his 80 grade team name) decided to retire, so we abandoned his team. Feel free to let anyone you know who might be interested in picking up his team. If anyone else knows for sure they will not be back, please let me and/or Chippy know. I’d be fine with folks staying on through arbitration, also, as I think most folks aren’t going to think about picking up fantasy baseball teams for a while
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Congrats to Homer and the top 3!
Looking forward to an offseason of wheeling and dealing
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I had a stroke on the 15, maybe my head is still blurry
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The interesting part was cutting before knowing October, November, December and January. For sure, Ohtani may be a January 31 cut. I do not see any benefit in a Sept 30 Ohtani cut...not needing salary space.
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I dont think you are wrong, Papi - I would have made the same call. People reacted similarly with Harper last year
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Yeah, well my 6th baseball sense tells me that he won't be batting long in 2024 and won't play until 2025 (pitching and batting), I let him go in three of my leagues 54$, 59$ and this one, I probably will regret it but was is done is done, good luck to all the auctionnees for Ohtani somewhere in March. Thanks Commish for great job and Congrats to top three ans especially 1st place
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The Ohtani cut was...ah, interesting?
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Thanks. This league is always a challenge in the best possible way. The new league mates we got this year were all excellent additions. Looking forward to a fun off-season (love that Ottoneu keeps us engaged through the off-season) and also the Shohei Ohtani auction which will be just about the most damn interesting auction in our history
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I know I'm new to the league, but it's still cool to see League Records being broken - Alien with record AB's and 2B's. Isotopes with HBP. Chippy with SB's and Holds. Homer with K's.
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Congratulations, Homer! You were there all season and then walked away at the end. Impressive.
Congrats to Alien too - great finish.
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I checked with Niv. As you said, in a suspended game the lineup I had on the original game day continues to apply, and any points will count retroactively to that day.
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I’d encourage you to write Niv about that. My belief is no, you’ll be locked into the players you started at the time the game started. But that’s just based on that seeming to be the case to me from previous suspended games and because ir makes logical sense, I don’t have the definitive answer, so maybe email Niv or post a message on the community board if you wanted to be super safe
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Question about a suspended game - the KCR/DET game was suspended in the 4th inning and will resume tomorrow. If I had the players in my lineup today, do I need to also have them in my lineup tomorrow?
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Four teams vying for second place! Going to be a photo finish for 8th place as well...
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Thanks for clarifying. I was wondering if I had to have a have a valid team to close the season, or if I could bid $500 each on 50 players in the final days. I guess not. :-)
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What’s not permitted is grabbing a bunch of players at the end of the year without making corresponding cuts. If you’re going to try to grab some folks on the wire with an eye toward next year, you will have to make cuts to stay within the roster limits. Good luck everyone in the last few days
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Wow, this is a tight finish. Closest we’ve had that I can recall. Just a quick note to remind everyone that our league rule is that your roster must be legal at the end of the year. That is, it has to be legal within the legal limits at the time. So teams that are over the cap are fine as long as they have loans and teams that have over 40 players are fine if that’s because they have guys on the 60 day IL.
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Totally support Good Faith.
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Agreed re Chippy’s approach to resolution. If someone falls out of compliance, I am fine as long as they are actively taking steps to remedy it, e.g. starting auctions on major leaguers to fill out the major league roster. Chippy was in compliance when we sent the earlier message, but then fell out after a couple trades were processed.
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Yes- I see that I’m not doing great on this rule…lots of moving parts…
I promise im moving quickly to compliance.
We haven’t had to enforce this yet, but I’m in favor of the soft approach suggested by Young in his article— notify offending party and give them a chance to resolve it in good faith
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Hey everyone, quick note this morning from the co-commissioners. Now that some sellers have started to make moves, we wanted to remind everyone, per the reminder from Chad Young’s article, that the rules state that you need to always maintain a 22 man roster major league roster capable of filling a lineup. Everyone is good now, but just wanted everyone to be reminded as they plan their rosters. Here’s the article: https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/the-saga-of-ottoneu-rule-1a/
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