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When I increase a bid on some guys it doesn’t have my name next to them, so It’s not clear I’m the high bid, and I end up bidding against myself. Any idea why?
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Today’s the day! I’ll start the draft at 9am and then each team will have two nominations to start player auctions. We can run 24 auctions at a time with simultaneous bidding, and you can place hidden max bids to make it easier to close the tab for a few hours. When a player is won, whoever nominated them for auction gets their nomination back and can submit a new player. The draft ends when no more players have been nominated. Let me know here or in the draft chat if there are any questions!
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Is the expectation that every team nominates 2 players per day? Just making sure that I understand the format
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Hi all - apologies for being delinquent. I have signed up for the draft. The slow speed should create a Titanic like effect.
Ryan Madson on
February 28, 2023 4:13 PM
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Actually, thinking about what I've just written, I'm going to set initial timers to 14 hours so that no player can be won same day - that way even if Pudge or West Coast US folks can't check in mid-day there's the 12 hours overnight to see new prices and submit bids that will be active when the timer resumes. It will feel very slow for the first few days, but I think that will be fairest as we get settled into the slow draft format.
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The long timers and long nightly break mean this will take a while, but we're getting a very early start by kicking off tomorrow. No player can be won by a new bid in less than 8 hours of timer, so that should hopefully give everyone a window of active clock during normal awake hours to check on every player's high bid before they're won.
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I sent a reminder to Seismic and will load the last two teams' keepers soon. For the draft, given time zones there will be time at the beginning and end of each day where some managers are sleeping, so I'll change new high bids to reset clocks to 8 hours, which will be crucial to everyone getting equal opportunity to see or make new high bids before players are won. I'll set a 'nightly' timer break from 9pm ET - 9am ET. That's a stop of 3am CET and a start of 6am PST.
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Seismic werthquake I think is who hasn't signed up. He was last on the site yesterday, the 26th, so that's a good sign. But yeah, I thought we were starting on the first.
The no keepers guy, I'm sure the Commish will update.
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Does the draft start tomorrow on couch managers? One team is missing and one team has zero keepers?
Donkey Hotè on
February 28, 2023 12:30 AM
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I just signed up for the auction.
I'm in Central European Time (GMT+1).
Pudge Pirates on
February 27, 2023 4:47 AM
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Agreed -- thanks Commish for importing the rosters and setting up the draft. Excited to get started!
Voidbringers on
February 26, 2023 4:06 PM
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Welcome to the league sl8er!
Draft starts in two days?! Looks like 2 teams still need to need to sign up on the draft site.
Commish, thanks again for setting it up!
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Hi everyone! I just took over Sl8ter Boi and am excited for the season. To the last post my time zone is Los Angeles PST (GMT -8) for the draft. Beyond that it looks like I am working on a bit of rebuild, but have some interesting pieces for teams who may be in a different position. Feel free to reach out with trades or whatever!
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Also, for the draft, remind me of your time zone if you're not based in the US. I plan on setting timers for 12 hours per player with a reset to 6 hours for new high bids to give everyone ample opportunity to place their bids on each player, but want to plan a clock stoppage each day to minimize any 6 hour clocks running out while folks are unavailable/sleeping.
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Thanks to all joining the couch managers draft - just four more teams to join before we start March 1. I've uploaded your keepers in but do give them a quick look over - every now and then it throws up an error that a player couldn't be found and I am adding those manually but worried I'll miss one.
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I did that. It's just not populating. I'll continue to mess with it. Will try on laptop tonight. Thanks!
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You can change your team name. Click on your team name in the menu. Then go all the way to the right and click Team Settings. You can change the name there.
Donkey Hotè on
February 21, 2023 4:06 PM
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You can change your team name. Click on your team name in the menu. Then go all the way to the right and click Team Settings. You can change the name there.
Donkey Hotè on
February 21, 2023 4:06 PM
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Soooo... I think I joined the league, then changed my team name... So it's listing my team name as my log-in name and I don't think I can change it. I apologize. Maybe if you delete me I can rejoin with name?
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Oh, and once you join the draft, there's an Edit Team Name button under the Auction Settings that you can use to update your draft name to match your ottoneu team name to ensure I import the correct keepers to the correct teams. Thanks!
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Hi Everyone, we've got a full league again! Welcome to our two new managers. I've set up a slow draft on Couch Managers at the url below. Please ensure you have an account on the site (it's free) and then go to this link to join our league's draft. The password is world. We'll get started on March 1, but the sooner everyone joins the earlier I can import all our keepers. https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=446
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Awesome! Thanks again
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How about March 1? We can start with a lower number of simultaneous nominations to get a feel and then increase if we want to speed it up. I'll create the draft this week and try to recruit managers to fill the two teams that just expired. In the meantime if you create a couchmanagers account you'll be ready to join the league draft when it's up. Fangraphs just posted a slow draft article, too: https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/thinking-about-auctions-fast-and-slow-logistics-and-details/
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Earlier is fine for me. Gives us time to adjust if needed since we haven’t done this before
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I wouldn’t mind starting a little earlier either, but I know we’ve got some teams to fill so either way works for me
Voidbringers on
February 10, 2023 7:50 PM
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I also prefer to start earlier, say one week earlier. Mainly because it's new for most of us.
Pudge Pirates on
February 9, 2023 4:22 AM
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Is there any interest in starting it earlier? I know it increases injury risk for everyone, but I'm down if Commish and everyone is.
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Thanks for putting all that together!
Voidbringers on
February 5, 2023 10:36 AM
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Not yet, though they were both online a week before the cut deadline so I'm hopeful they just have something going on IRL. Ottoneu will auto-abandon the two teams if they aren't renewed by this week, so that may well be our answer. Albhaino is a league founder and Sl8er just joined this off-season so fingers crossed.
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We’re you able to get a hold of the teams that didn’t cut?
Donkey Hotè on
February 4, 2023 10:21 PM
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Sounds great! Can’t wait!
Donkey Hotè on
February 4, 2023 10:21 PM
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The consensus seems to be for a slow draft, which I can set up. Based on past experience, a new league can complete a slow draft in 2 weeks and we have considerably fewer players to auction. Unless anyone feels otherwise, I'll set this up to begin Monday, March 13, which would give us 16 days to complete before Opening Day. Each team nominates up to 2 players at a time, timers of 8 hours for initial auction and bump up to 4 hours for any new winning bids, with daily pauses of 12 hours for sleep.
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I have never done a slow auction draft, but let's try it.
Pudge Pirates on
February 2, 2023 10:35 AM
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looks like fun - I'm in
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Slow drafts are interesting. I recommend you take a look at the draft on couchmanagers.
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I’m down for a slow draft but not sure how it works with an auction
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I haven’t done a slow draft, but it looks fun. I’d be down to give it a try if we’re all on board
Voidbringers on
February 1, 2023 8:02 PM
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I would like to try a slow draft
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I haven't done a slow draft but could be interesting. If we go the slow route would probably want to start sooner rather than later. For instance, the draft in my other Otto league is live and basically one week before Spring Training ends. Won't be able to start a slow draft that late. Could leave teams open to drafting players injured during Spring Training.
Donkey Hotè on
February 1, 2023 12:55 PM
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I can do either but the slow draft has my vote. I haven't done an auction one, but I did a couple slow snake drafts and they are some of the most fun I've had playing fantasy.
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Alternately, I did a slow draft for the first time last year and it could be a great solution for our many time zones and busy lives. Let me know if you'd prefer a slow over live draft and if we have a critical mass that is an avenue we can take. There's currently another ottoneu league drafting on the public site so you can check it out to see how it works here: https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=373
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Thanks for making cuts, everyone! I'm checking in with the two teams that missed the deadline. In the meantime, we can start coordinating draft date. I've created a doodle below to help with recording availability - please enter your responses as soon as you are able so we can lock something in. https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/bDqWvjKd
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Well boys - I've cut dang near everyone. Going to be a wild draft!
Donkey Hotè on
January 30, 2023 10:38 PM
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Welcome aboard, Donkey! Reminder to all that tomorrow (1/31) is the keeper deadline. Get your cuts in!
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It might take more than a year to turn this team around - seems pretty neglected.
Donkey Hotè on
January 28, 2023 10:56 AM
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Welcome to the league, Donkey Hote. You will find many windmills to fight here.
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Hey guys - happy to join this league. I'm an experienced Otto player in Texas. My other league is going into its 5th year. Good luck and I'll get my cuts in before the deadline. Looking forward to getting to know y'all and a fun year.
Donkey Hotè on
January 28, 2023 10:32 AM
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Additionally, remember that January 31 is the deadline to make penalty-free cuts and re-up for this season. If you haven't re-upped, you should see a bright red banner at the top of your ottoneu screen with a link to do so. Thanks!
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Drewville let me know he doesn't plan on continuing in the league, so we have a team available heading into the keeper deadline. If we don't find a manager in time, we'll allow one pre-draft round of penalty-free cuts once someone is on board.
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Sending this quick reminder that we have a little less than 2 weeks left to make penalty-free cuts for the upcoming season.
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