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2/25 is a Sunday so it shouldn’t conflict with your lesson
Lisan al Bibee on
February 11, 2018 9:35 PM
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And would someone be willing to take a moment to do a step by step for creating my player list. I don't see where I can create mine to make the draft go as fast and smoothly as possible. Thanks!!!
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I would prefer to start around high noon because I have pitching lessons every Sat at 11 till 11:30. Prepaid 50 a lesson. Only starting an hour later. Thanks, -Jason
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You can keep as many players as you want, but there is an arbitration system. It is all described here: https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/rules
Lisan al Bibee on
February 11, 2018 8:01 PM
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Long as it's the weekend it will be ok for me. Please post the final dates for the draft. Also is it a keeper 10?
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Yeah it would be 11 am EST on 2/25. Any objections to this?
Lisan al Bibee on
February 11, 2018 12:52 PM
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That should work for me. I'm assuming we're talking about 11am EST? (8AM PST)
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Ok for me too but can’t do more than 3-4 hours
Pandaman on
February 10, 2018 9:18 PM
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Fine with me as well,
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works for me also
Cardinals on
February 10, 2018 8:12 PM
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Moving it to 2/25 would work for me.
Greenlights on
February 10, 2018 8:10 PM
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Sorry for your loss -- looking at the doodle, can people do 2/25? We could plan for an 11 AM start and just run until someone has a conflict. Looks like the availability is the same as 2/18 in the poll.
Lisan al Bibee on
February 10, 2018 6:33 PM
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Re: the watchlist, you can go to the auction draft room (link at top of page) and add players to your draft watchlist there.
Sad Bat True on
February 9, 2018 11:44 PM
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would it be possible to do 2/18 10am-1pm and just add an extra hour onto the 3/3?
Greenlights on
February 9, 2018 11:32 PM
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how the fuck do you create a watchlist at this site?
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also sorry about your loss... I wouldn't be able to make the later draft time unfortunately
Pandaman on
February 9, 2018 10:50 PM
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I have reoccurring pitching lessons at 11 every sat as I indicated in the sign-up so I am cool with the time change. They already cost 50 bucks so I'm not missing that considering. I'm happy with moving it from 4-8. Sorry for your loss.
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Hey guys, I had a death in the family and I just found out the memorial is on 2/18. Is there anyway we can alter the draft times at all? Can we start the draft on 2/18 4PM-8PM? Please let me know if this will work for everyone. Sorry but these circumstances are obviously beyond my control.
Greenlights on
February 9, 2018 2:12 PM
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The last goinggone bid has a 15 sec clock. That's up to 2 hours - can in theory be shorter when most are out of money or those with remaining money toggle the 'I'm out' switch if they're not interested in bidding. The backforth bidding is the remainder.
For those new to otto, you can get/print a list of average player values from the 'players' tab aboveright.
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Potentially 480 players get picked if every owner fills their roster. A 30-second clock to nominate players - that alone is up to 4 hours. That can be cut a lot but only if owners create/populate their watchlist inside the draftroom software ahead of time and nominate from that list (not from the default lists or search box). Every owner who doesn't do that will screw things up. They'll panic, fail to nominate, and then be locked out of bidding - and draft will have to be stopped/reset
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Why does the draft take so long. Something I don't know about?
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Alright, so draft dates are looking set. We will do 4 hours starting at 11 AM on 2/18 and 4 hours starting at 11 AM on 3/3.
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2/18 and 3/3 work for me as well
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Dividing the draft over 2/18 and 3/3 sounds like a good plan to me as well.
Sad Bat True on
January 31, 2018 5:02 PM
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2/18 and 3/3 will work for me.
Greenlights on
January 31, 2018 4:53 PM
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I like the 2/18 and then back half on 3/3. I can't do 2/17 (out of town)
Pandaman on
January 31, 2018 3:52 PM
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How about we do 4 hours on 2/18 11:00 AM -- 3:00 PM? We can either do the other four on 2/17 (and get it all done that weekend) or we can postpone the back half until Mar 3
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3/3 (preferred) for me but can do 2/18. We are still thinking to do only 4 hours the first day right? I can't do more than 4 hours on 2/18 which is why I prefer 3/3
Pandaman on
January 29, 2018 11:44 PM
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2/18 is good for me.
Greenlights on
January 29, 2018 11:18 PM
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2/18 works for me also.
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I favor the earlier dates (and lean a bit towards 2/18 over 3/3). We could theoretically do it in late March if there's really no other time that works for people, but that could be problematic if we need a second day given the proximity to opening day.
Sad Bat True on
January 29, 2018 7:55 PM
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So looking at the Doodle, while no time works for everyone, I think there are three reasonable options: 11 AM on 2/18, 11 AM on 3/3, or 3PM on 3/24 (all times eastern). Which do people prefer? Personally, I would be fine with doing it earlier. 2/18 would be over two weeks with the draft tool open. But happy to hear what people think
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Feb17/18 looks best to me - but I'll make the time whenever. Early is actually good - spring training can be a good trading and add/drop season for otto before the ballgames begin.
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So it seems like the weekends that might work best are those of Feb 17-18 (though the preference seems to be for March), Mar 3-4, Mar 17-18, and Mar 24-25 (**we just added this weekend to Doodle**). Going by the poll, even on these weekends there isn't much overlap in people's availabilities, so if you can indicate any *more* availability that would be much appreciated.
Sad Bat True on
January 25, 2018 6:58 PM
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Just to clarify/echo Ready, we can't even look at the draft room and build our lists until Jan 31st so February 3rd won't be enough time for all owners to be ready especially if you are like me and this is your first Ottoneu draft. The commish should set a date in March imo, its far enough away that people can adjust their schedules. Even if we have to do it all on a single Sunday the commish can pause the draft for breaks and we can just knock it out.
Greenlights on
January 25, 2018 8:48 AM
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I really would prefer not to do Super Bowl weekend. The draft software here is not one to wing it - at all. And keeper drop in my other otto league is Jan31. 3 days elapsed isn't enough to get my nomination list together in that software.
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February is a really bad month to do drafts. There are players still unsigned, it's early and trades matter determining values. And closers.... way too early in my mind.
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I think it is going to be pretty difficult to get all 12 team owners to be available at exactly the same time especially as time goes on. I think owners are going to have to be a little flexible on the time. We are looking pretty good for at least Saturday morning on the 3rd to get it started I would think.
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I appreciate the poll as well for whomever set that up, but hopefully the site doesn't take that long... there was a huge lag when trying to select boxes and weeks.
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Sorry guys, Superbowl weekend is horrible for me because I have several people coming in for the weekend as I do for the last decade. I can also do the weekend after the 18th. I couldn't get the poll to pull up after the 18th. -Jason
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To those that are filling out the poll: make sure you scroll and put down times for all of the available weekends. I have all weekends in Feb and early March, but you have to scroll over to see them
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https://doodle.com/poll/rywcg5kaehniupxn
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Alright guys, league is full. This is a doodle poll with a ton of weekend times that we could potentially draft (in four hour increments in case we decide to split over two days). Please fill out and then we can get a time set!
https://doodle.com/poll/rywcg5kaehniupxn
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thanks for the invite Noah, excited for this upcoming season
Pandaman on
January 23, 2018 2:41 PM
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Splitting days (sat and sun) sounds great
Cardinals on
January 23, 2018 2:09 PM
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I would be on board with the splitting of the days.
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We could also potentially split the draft (i.e. half on Saturday and half on Sunday)
Lisan al Bibee on
January 23, 2018 12:35 PM
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the otto draft software is kludgy and 1st auction can take a ton of time if owners aren't paying attention or very prepared. I'd rec a couple of weeks min between when we set the date (when the draft tab appears and owners can check it out and start prepping) and hold the auction esp if there are new-to-otto owners.
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Super bowl Sunday might be tough. The draft is supposed to take 7-8 hours.
Greenlights on
January 22, 2018 10:48 PM
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I agree! Maybe a early Super Bowl Sunday draft if people are up for it.
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