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Welcome to the beginning of arbitration-an important process for the competitiveness of the league. And, it's also sorta fun. You have until Nov 14 to enter in your arbitration choices. Please take the time over the next month to complete the process.
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Congrats Shot!
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Nice work Shot! You had this locked down since Mid June, a really amazing season. I’ll be back to try again next year.
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Thanks everyone for a great season. I had a strong run. I was flirting with top 20 in the Ottoneu universe before falling off in August. I hope everyone can be back in 2022--try to make every effort to let me know prior to arbitration if you do NOT intend to be back for next season so we can fill any missed spots early.
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Congratulations to Shot for taking it all and well done Poof and Chance.
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Congrats commish, solid win. And thanks for organizing.
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Happy Opening Day Eve. Good luck to everyone this season. Remember, keep it clean. Have fun! If you need me, I'll be at Wrigley all summer.
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The auction has ended. Thanks for everyone's hard work. All rosters have been updated. From my proofreading, I discovered one small error. I had to increase my ownership of Hunter Greene from $1 to $2. Please double check your roster-let me know if you need any corrections. Lastly, the league is officially open for business. Good luck. Have fun. I'm here if you need anything.
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Tuesday update: I'll finish the player input from today later. I have made adjustments to the auction to complete it ASAP. With their consent, I have provided Poof and Krushers with enough nominations to complete their teams without having to wait for an auction to finish. Additionally, I have reduced the time for ALL NEW auctions to 4 hours. I'm hoping to be finished with this by the end of today, early Wednesday. I'll finish roster updates soon thereafter.
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Monday morning update: Updated auctions from the past 24 hours. Again, review my additions and the salaries. Looking at the board, I'll be finished tomorrow with my auction. Poof and Krushers have the most to go to fill a roster, and I believe they will do this by Wednesday (if they keep all their nom'd auctions). So, I may declare an end to this auction by Thursday, but we'll see how it goes.
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Sunday update: I entered a long list of names from the past 24 hours. Please check your rosters for any inaccuracies. I do a review after I enter names and salaries, but I'm far from perfect. Let me know if you see anything. Looks like a few teams could finish today. I'm hoping to have this auction finished by Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest.
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Saturday update: I updated rosters from the past 24 hours of auctioning. Additionally, I adjusted the auction times. 12 hours for initial auctions. 6 hours for extension. Hopefully we can finish this in the next couple of days.
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Friday update: Entered the last 12 hours of auctions into our league. I may visit shortening the auction times on Sunday. Thinking 12 hours for the initial and 6 hrs. for a reset withe under 6 hrs remaining. Any objections?
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Good morning. I updated rosters from the past 24 hours of auction. Please let me know if I made any errors. Happy drafting!
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I've updated rosters from yesterday's auction. As I mentioned on the CM message board, I am adding 1 nomination per team. I hope this speeds up the auction and adds a little intrigue to the proceedings. Happy drafting!
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Please, please, please-if you do not wish to participate on a player's auction, please click the "PASS" button that appears when you scroll over the player's name. If everyone does this for players they no longer wish to auction, the auction will move faster.
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Quick update: I'm beginning to add players to our rosters. I know that Ottoneu can import from CM, but I also think it's important to give your rosters a "real time" feel. Please let me know if I make any mistakes. I'll try to do this daily until the auction is complete.
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Lastly. Some tricks.
1-When you bid (or as you watch)-the colors will change depending on the quality of bid. Yellow-your bid did not exceed the highest bid. Red-indicates a new high bidder.
2-If you have no interest in a particular auction? Please select "Pass" for any player that you no long want to bid on. If everyone "passes" the winning bid automatically wins and a new nomination will begin. This is VERY important for an efficient auction.
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Additionally. If you'd like to bid on a previously nominated player, you may try two options.
1. Go to that same box from the previous direction and enter your highest bid. If your highest bid is approved, the winning bid will be $1 higher than the previous owner's highest bid. Ex. You bid $5 and the previous high bid was $3, you win the bid at $4.
2-You may increase your bid by $1 more by clicking the "outbid by #1" button to the far right. This works if you want to "
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For those unfamiliar with CM. It's fairly easy, but there are a few tricks. If you want to nominate:
1-Click the player's name you'd like to nom.
2-You will be prompted "are you sure"
3-The name of the player will appear-in the box to the farthest right of the nom player is a space to indicate your highest possible bid. By having a number here, the auction will be go faster because it will not have to reset anytime another owner flips the auction. So, use it wisely an
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OK. I have the auction set to begin. I'm going to start with 18 hours for the initial auction followed by an 8 hour reset. As the auction rolls along I'll add nominations to teams and shorten the times a bit. Good luck. Have fun. Please let me know if you run into any problems. I'll fix them as quickly as I can.
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Thanks. Welcome back. I think two owners have jumped the auction bell a bit. I paused the draft-please do not nominate players until I finalize Poof's roster. Poof-please enter your team into CM. I will start the draft ASAP.
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Sorry fellas. Haven’t been on in about a week. I’m good to draft today. I’ll log on Couch Managers.
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Hey all-I've updated the rosters on Couch Managers. Please double check my work. If you've already alerted me to an issue, I have fixed your roster. Still waiting for Poof. Let's hope he makes an appearance soon.
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Thanks for setting up the CouchManagers draft commish. My team looks good except I should have Jurickson Profar instead of Jake Rogers on my team.
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Thanks for joining. I’m beginning to import the player onto your teams. Did the first four last night. Still waiting for Poof to come by again. So, we’re in a holding pattern.
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Again-sign up for the auction!
https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=119
password: baseball
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Screwed that up. Made a draft and not an auction. I had to change it. New link:
https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=119
Password: baseball
My apologies.
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OK. I need everyone to sign up for the auction. Go to https://www.couchmanagers.com/mock_drafts/index.php?draftnum=46195 Password: baseball
Click "Join" on the right hand side. Please name your team as close as possible to the name in the league. As you populate the auction, I will update your rosters.
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OK. We are down to 1. Poof. I'll email him soon and get everything lined up for Sunday.
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Im good with Sunday.
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Thanks to everyone for getting back to me. I'm still waiting to hear from Krushers, Poof, and Holy Owned. I'll send them a person email later today if they don't contact me soon. I'll update the rosters on Couch Managers tonight and tomorrow. Cross your fingers that we're ready to roll on Sunday. If we have to push it back a day or two that's fine. The first couple of rounds will be extra slow (12-24 hour auction times) and then we can speed up as we become used to the format again.
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I’m good as well.
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Sunday would be good.
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I'm good to draft anytime, thanks
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Well, that's 3 of us! Lol. I will begin sending out DMs to owners to weigh in on the auction start date. Still, I'd really like to start the draft sooner rather than later, and I want to make sure I have as close to 100% participation as possible. So, if you haven't responded back on the message board or in a PM, expect a message from me soon.
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This weekend sounds good to me.
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I'm good with starting the auction on Sunday.
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My apologies. Sunday 2/28.
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This weekend could be the beginning of the 2021 auction. I was going to import our teams into couch managers shortly. Can we agree to starting the auction in Sunday 2/29?
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Welcome aboard. You’re right-Josh has some nice, young talent. Hopefully he can build a nice second place team behind mine. 😆 We are filled. I’m still looking at a March 1 start date for our auction. Any objections to that? Could start on Sunday 2/28 if we want to start on a weekend. No problems there. Happy Spring Training everyone! The 3 feet of snow in Chicago doesn’t feel as bad now that I can hear the pop of the leather in Arizona and Florida.
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Evening folks! Josh here, taking over for Emmanuel Clase. Not a lot of star power but looks like a good young team is brewing. Looking forward to a fun (and hopefully full) season
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Sadly, we lost an owner over night. I’ll come to the league first-do you know anyone interested in taking on this challenge? I’ll give us until the end of this weekend to find someone and then I’ll head into the Ottoneu board looking for a new owner.
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Spring Training will begin next Wednesday. It also appears MLB will have a full season. If you haven't, please be aware of the rule adjustments for the 2021 MLB season: doubleheader length, DH use in the NL, and other potential alterations. I propose using Couch Managers again and beginning the auction on March 1st. That would give us a couple of weeks of ST for teams to finish signing players, and we will have a realistic idea of rosters.
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If I read right the latest proposal by MLB to the players association was for a start on spring training games in late March, with real games by late April. That proposal wasn’t accepted but I imagine some version of it will eventually. I agree start that after the start of spring training games makes the most sense for start of slow draft but who knows when that might be.
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Good morning-All cuts and trades have been processed. Now on to setting up our draft/auction. I assume everyone is good with doing the slow auction again. We just need to agree on a start date. I would like to wait until Spring Training officially begins-so maybe March 1 is a good starting point for an auction. All thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated.
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Cut:
Ramos, Alfaro, Severino, Aguilar, Gurriel, Wong, Solano Camargo, Carpenter, Dahl, Cain , Verlander, Hendricks, Tanaka, Matz, Alcantara , Greene, Losiaga, Ottovino, Newcomb
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Thanks for understanding. It was an honest mistake. Not trying to get one over on anyone.
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Poof-I sent you a personal message-please reply ASAP. I'll take care of it.
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Well, I came on to cut my players at 11:12 CT. Evidently the deadline was Eastern Time. I live Central Time zone and did not know this. Can I cut players?
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