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It's a bad time of year to have $0 FAAB left...
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Lots of auctions being fired up!! Nice to see a robust end-of-season market, just remember that everyone needs to be legal before midnight Monday (season was extended to include Mets-Braves DH, even if it ends up not happening). Cheers!
Duck Season 🦆🎯 on
September 28, 2024 2:00 PM
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And down the stretch they come.
FREE PETE on
September 27, 2024 6:54 PM
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No.meanies here, everyone cool , nobody tries to rip others off
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Thanks Ogden and Free Pete! And thanks everyone for staying engaged, whether you're still competing for a podium or OPL or rebuilding, I see everyone is out there making their moves still. This league is the best!
Duck Season 🦆🎯 on
September 19, 2024 11:17 AM
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We gotta dandy race at the top! Good luck guys!
FREE PETE on
September 18, 2024 11:35 AM
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The final lap around the track , good luck contenders . I had my two .months of glory then pewetered out
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Good morning all. Wanted to let anyone who is interested know that i have SP available Via trade. Keller, Gray, Buehler, & Snell. But Snell will cost if interested. Also Iglesias as well as other RP are available. Im looking for players that can help my team both now as well as the future. Thanks everyone & good luck the rest of the way!!!
FREE PETE on
August 29, 2024 5:38 AM
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Mayhem messaged me just after the fact saying his cut of Rizzo was accidental. I'll reinstate him to his team shortly
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Brutal...
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Yes I realize that Snell threw a no hitter last night. I did not start him for 2 reasons.Im sure those who know me know 1 of the reasons. The other is because of the innings i have available. Sometimes my heart gets in the way,as well as just plain old stupidity 😁
FREE PETE on
August 3, 2024 8:54 AM
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No Adley takers ?
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Can I bribe any of you to trade with me ? I'm an advanced home brewer and will and do ship bottles all over the country.
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Attention rebuilders , Adley is highly available and a keeper for me , you, anyone. You don't hardly need a second C owning him. I wouldn't need a C back , just SP better than.my 6/7 sp and OF . Multiple player deals offers will be considered .
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Ha. I see what u done there. SMH... Lol.
FREE PETE on
July 23, 2024 3:08 PM
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But Pete Vuckovich isn't on your roster either.
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Hey guys. Sorry about the team name change again, lol. Just didn't feel like "The Elly Effect" was appropriate given that elly isn't on my roster. So, after consideration , I've reset my team name to FREE PETE. Sorry for any confusion.
FREE PETE on
July 22, 2024 3:43 PM
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Heh everyone, just lost Albies and need 2b ...hit me up with offers that help me now
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Ya just gotta keep chuggin! 😄 Ya this is the rare league where no one is MIA, even the bottom teams are setting themselves up for next year, and feels like every year we have ~6 teams firmly in the battle deep into the season. Enjoy the 2nd half!!
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How about Icaro not throwing in the towel? Trade after Trade after trade to keep battling
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Agreed! This is the most active league I've ever played in, and I've been playing fantasy baseball for over 30 years!
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Was a fun first half, this is a great league . Everyone gets along and trading or discussions thereof are easy and friendly . GL everyone in 2nd half.
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My offence SUCKS!!!!!
FREE PETE on
May 23, 2024 12:01 PM
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BREAKING: TDB officially calling up Skenes today in order to try and energize the clubhouse. Inside sources have told me that up until this point the team has been aloof since the return from Korea, with a single source telling me that clubhouse has had a noticeable beer and fried chicken fragrance when entering the room over the last two weeks. When asked about this the manager blamed the new febreze beer and chicken scented air fresheners. Time will tell if Skenes can turn the club around.
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Offense*
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haha it's all good, i wasn't actually offended. flags fly forever, pandemic or not
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This year, he traded Siemen for Trout, however
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Sorry no offence intended , just way impressed with JD 15 finishes
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i'm the Dodgers of the league. can't get over the hump except for a shortened season that Ogdens doesn't even count :(
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I threw out 2020 as not really a season
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I was bored and looked at past all seasons, and Third Degree has outstanding finishes . Three 1sts , Two 2nd, and a third . Wowza top shelf gm if it is the same owner all this time
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3) Unlike other platforms, Ottoneu a set of standard rules that apply to every league - on roster size, keeper/salary mechanisms, FA auctions - and that does not include innings min/max for pts leagues. That only adds more restrictions and confusion, and that's what we're trying to avoid; 4) The point of having this discussion was to clarify any ambiguity on rule 1.a. You can rebuild, stash, whatever, just have a full starting lineup and pitching staff and we're good. Now let's enjoy the season!
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Just going to say a few things then hopefully we'll move on: 1) I didn't make any unilateral ruling. I invited everyone to leave their comments, five managers did (including me), and no one raised an objection. I waited 5 days and then set a basic set of rules for us going forward; 2) There's lots of discussion in the forums/slack on why there is a bit of a gray area around rule 1.a as well as the reasons behind that rule, with lots of great commentary and guidelines from Niv and Chad. (1/2)
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I want to be clear I'm not trying to accuse anyone of tanking. I don't believe anyone is actively doing that and I like to assume good intent from everyone. Looks like we're in agreement on the rule at this point, and there needs to be an active attempt to get legal (which there has been).
Also, it's also possible to get under 1200 IP with a legal roster...Ottoneu requires significant day-to-day involvement for lineup setting and it's easy to miss days.
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My comments here are more about the rule in Ottoneu overall. I mean there are a lot of leagues on here where each owner has two teams, one with all farm players and one with all majors players, so they can game the OPL system. I would assume the rule is intended to prevent blatant manipulation like that, not penalize active owners, and it's not working at all in that regard.
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The commissioner has ruled and I'm not arguing against that. Also to be clear, I had not intention of fully tanking this season and finishing with less than at least 1200 IP. I have a lot of pitchers coming back in the second half that will create a roster crunch for me and until then I'm adding assets where I can.
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Let's just have a league vote or have commissioner make a ruling and we can move on
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I would also like to point out that this rule almost certainly hasn't been enforced in this league in years past, with many teams each year finishing with below 1200 innings pitched.
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The fact we needed to define it as a league is exactly what I mean by gray area, as well as having commissioner determined case-by-case exeptions. Having different leagues using different rules isn't ideal, especially when there is an overall prize at stake. I would assume we wouldn't penalize a new team for things a previous owner did, but I was just throwing out a suggestion to more clearly and universally define the rule.
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That wouldn’t work because a team could just not hit it and then abandon and then the new owner is left on the hook for that penalty? IMO there’s no gray area here, as we just defined it as a league. You need to have 10 MLB pitchers not on the 60-day that you can slot into pitching spots. Doesn’t matter if they’re all starters, all relievers, or a mix. Just 10 P eligible guys in the major leagues.
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Ottoneu needs a minimum innings pitched limit to make this rule more clear and enforceable (with maybe a $ penalty for the following year's auction). How or when an owner gets to the innings limit should be up to them. Gray area rules aren't good for fantasy leagues.
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For transparency, we currently have two illegal rosters, both managers have either made moves towards making their roster legal (bidding on noms) or reassured me they're working on doing so.
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Thanks everyone for your input! Looks like it's settled then - teams need to have enough hitters and pitchers to fill a lineup. Exceptions will be made for 7IL, 10IL, 15IL, and for players on rehab minors assignments. We can provide a grace period on a case-by-case basis (e.g. players w/ long-term injuries but still on shorter IL designations, trades that make a roster illegal, quad-A guys), but managers should make a reasonable effort to get legal within a few days.
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I think it’s important to have some SPs and RPs but as long as there’s an earnest effort to meet IP min/max and be able to field 10 pitchers (add guys to fill in for 60IL/OUT/anything else that grants the extra slot) it doesn’t bother me too much how it’s achieved
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Im fine with the interpretation... maybe a couple of the owners that have been in this lg for a while will remember the owner that Only had maybe 2 or 3 relievers rostered most of the season, And I believe they finished 1st that season. But i do remember there being some discussion on lg msg board back then . Ultimatley nothing came out of it.
FREE PETE on
April 5, 2024 5:41 PM
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but I think teams should make a reasonable effort to get/stay legal (propose trades, nom players that would get them there) within, say, a couple days. I'd prefer if we kept it simple and used common sense rather than have to litigate every move. If you don't agree with this framework, just type 'disagree' and if we get at least six of those messages, we'll start a discussion for a different interpretation. (2/2)
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Ok, so here is my interpretation of the rule as has been established in a couple other leagues I'm in (and based on Niv's and Chad's comments on slack): we need to be able to fill a lineup, so we need 12 healthy hitters and 10 healthy pitchers. Exceptions can be made for guys on the 7-day, 10-day or 15-day IL and guys on rehab assignments in the minors -- but NOT for 60-day IL and for minor leaguers in general. There is some tolerance to when rosters just go illegal for whatever reason (1/2)
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Thanks gentlemen!
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Agreed that 15-day guys are fine. 60-day and prospects are not (there's obviously a grace period for guys getting added to 60-day and/or optioned down)
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Busy afternoon here, but looks like we'll have to discuss this as it's never really been an issue in this league. Good point by Brooks, my initial thought is 15IL are ok, 60IL and minors (not on short assignments) aren't.
But feel free to discuss and I'll join the convo later. Play nice! 😄
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