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Taking final offers on Yamamoto - plan to move him by the end of day tomorrow. Send final offers if interested!
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If someone offers me a trade , I either accept or counter within a few hours, I don’t let trade offers sit around for days with no reply
Da’ Dukes🐲 on
March 29, 2025 10:14 AM
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i hear ya, sat him in 2 of my leagues too
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Gotta love when your bench player hits 2hrs :(
Da’ Dukes🐲 on
March 28, 2025 3:39 AM
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Happy Opening Day everyone! Here's to a fun injury free[for the most part] season!
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Clearly there is grey area here because that clause does not specify a time period for remediation. Additionally, sections I.b. and V.d. suggest that the penalty for exceeding roster limits is just the frozen roster. So it’s not 100% clear. This is why other leagues I’m in address it proactively, as I think we should. Some of my leagues use a 24-hr rule, others do not time box at all. But nothing wrong with identifying the grey area and deciding as a league the best way to address it.
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Nothing wrong with BBT’s original post, it is well within the scope of his duties as commissioner. Folks suggesting otherwise are simply not reading the rules. Section I.c.: “At no time shall a team willingly go over roster and salary cap limits. If a team knowingly does this, they will face penalties at the discretion of their league’s commissioner.”
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it was put out there as a reminder, not a demand, I do the same thing in the other league I run..I give reminders about things all the time, but GC does have a point if we are going to bitch about every little thing between ourselves iy's going to be a very long season. Really let's try to get along and have a good season.
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The scenario you describe isn't even illegal. This is insane.
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One reason it matters - at any point of the season - is that you could spend big money on a waiver claim, cut only half the money you need to cut, and then wait it out in the hopes that your cuts will get claimed or else auctioned very quickly, solving the other half of the problem for you. It’s the reason a number of my leagues have a 24 hr rule. Clearly this is a valid topic of debate and it matters at any point of the season, not just once games have started.
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How sagacious …
Da’ Dukes🐲 on
March 21, 2025 11:16 AM
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I'm insane about making my roster legal, so you won't see the red next to my team for very long, but can we step back a second and calm down. If your roster is illegal, you can't make any moves. That's a massive penalty that helps the rest of the league. I'd love it for one of my competitors to be locked out of setting their roster on opening day. I've played in a dozen different Ottoneu leagues and this one is truly a unicorn. Can't wait to see what's next.
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I've never had it come up before the actual season starts and actual MLB rosters are finalized lol. Let alone its not even been 3 days. Those aspects, to me, are very pedantic.
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Rules are clear that rosters need to be legal but they are not clear on timing or consequences. As a result, this discussion comes up in pretty much every league I’ve been in, and each league determines what is acceptable. Can’t remember what has been discussed here previously because I have more leagues than I can keep track of, but there’s nothing pedantic about the discussion. If we’re going to bitch every time a valid concern is raised, this is going to be a long season.
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This is the most pedantic league this site hosts, I'll swear by it. The penalty for having an invalid roster is that you cannot make any roster moves. There is nothing against the rules leaving a roster invalid, especially when the season hasn't started for all but two MLB teams. MLB final rosters aren't set. Final injury designations aren't made. If you want me to have a valid offer, make some noms I can't pass up or trade moves I'd be tempted to move.
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Agreed big Bang, if they can log in, seems to me the fair and above board thing would be to make the appropriate cuts. But what do I know
Da’ Dukes🐲 on
March 21, 2025 10:32 AM
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just a reminder all, if your team is red you need to make the appropriate cuts to be within 40-$400
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If I don’t get my usual rash of injuries. Then you won’t be winning this year . And there is a few others who are very involved who are great competitors. Should be a good season
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Just kidding, appreciate the activity and interest, feedback, counters etc. Eager to be in an active league and sorry to stir the pot so soon upon entry. At this point the damage is done and I hope those I've angered won't hold it against me - good luck this year, I promise I won't be setting and forgetting.
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The those dogging and vetoing this rebuild, I will appreciate a public apology when I finish above y'all this year.
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I also rolled my eyes at the 4 veto votes. Veto collusion only and that's basically it. I am very happy with my return and am exceptionally low on both guys I sold off. My intentions are clear and obvious. If it's so egregious, make a similar offer for Bryce and use it to your advantage. Otherwise, get over yourselves and have fun.
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On my feed yesterday, after I vetoed trade , I saw a message that said, this trade no longer exists . My assumption was that it got recalled by the manager . I now assume the message I saw was just because I vetoed the trade and could no longer vote on it. It is what it is, I think the trade is far too one sided, especially 4 days after the draft. But I am a minority it appears
Da’ Dukes🐲 on
March 5, 2025 11:06 AM
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Don't know what you mean didn't exist yesterday a trade goes through in 24hrs, it takes 7 veto votes [50% +1] for a trade to be cancelled.
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Four veto votes against that trade? You guys need to chill out. That kind of trade happens in every Ottoneu league I've ever been in. Truthfully, in 10 years of playing Ottoneu I'm not sure I've ever even seen a trade vetoed, much less one that follows an obvious decision to break down and rebuild. If I hadn't already paid up and invested, I'd be out of here TODAY. No wonder this league was in turmoil all offseason. LMAO at you guys. Get over yourselves and have fun.
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How in the hell did that trade go through ? I vetoed and also saw that the trade didn’t exists yesterday
Da’ Dukes🐲 on
March 5, 2025 10:41 AM
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I get if that's not a trade you like, please don't try and act like it's collusion though. I'm still taking offers for Bryce and Yamamoto, it's clear my intent is to rebuild.
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People are free to manage their teams how they want but yeah, I don’t think that kind of preseason deal is great for any league. The very specific circumstances here (acquiring a team already paid for and getting a “free” rebuild year) no doubt create incentives for this kind of strategy. Wish we had a cleaner offseason and didn’t have those kind of incentives, but I’m just happy to have 12 engaged owners.
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A trade like that before season starts raises a lot of questions for me . . Just saying
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Good catch and thanks for fixing, BBT. Not sure how that happened since only the PIT Endy is in Couch Managers and I used the Couch Managers CSV file to upload to Ottoneu (and I believe it matches based on player ID#, not name). Must have been an incorrect player ID assignment on the back end.
In any case, everyone please make sure to give your rosters a once-over if you haven't already just in case there are any more of those out there.
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Done
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Looks like I got the wrong Endy on the upload. Should have been the Pit Endy
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Alright we made it! Thanks everyone for hanging in there through the offseason twists and turns.
Rosters are loaded. I have reviewed every player on every roster and I think we should be good, but just to be safe, please do check your roster and confirm everything looks good.
Now that rosters are complete, FA auctions and trading can begin, and I will hand the keys over to Big Bong Theory. Thanks again to BBT and good luck to all this season!
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Rosters need to be loaded before any auctions can be started. I'm starting on the rosters now, will post here when everything is complete.
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Please remind us on the immediate free agent market after draft . Can we start the free agent bidding process ?
Da’ Dukes🐲 on
March 2, 2025 4:55 AM
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Small, can you please log in and just pass or bid on any of GC's noms? You two are holding up the trad block opening up - if you cared to, the two of you could finish this off in 15 mins.
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very good, and thanks.
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Thanks guys. Hearing no objections, I'll assign Jobu the "correct" Juan Brito.
I'm out most of the day today and have another live draft tonight, but if we can wrap the slow draft by tonight I'll do my best to get rosters loaded on Ottoneu overnight.
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All good by me
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All good
Da’ Dukes🐲 on
March 1, 2025 4:42 AM
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Fine by me
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I have no problem with it
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Hey guys - Jobu meant to draft CLE prospect Juan Brito, but inadvertently drafted some other Juan Brito who is apparently in the Washington farm system but who doesn't even show up in the Fangraphs database (unfortunately he does show up in Couch Managers).
This wasn't an easy thing to notice and I'm guessing that if anyone had wanted to bid on CLE's Juan Brito, they would have bid on this Juan Brito in the draft room. Any concerns if I assign the "correct" Juan Brito to J
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Agreed, this is an important time in the draft to not miss your nominations
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We can only operate on the honor system because this is a slow draft and people have stuff to do. Hours may pass between the time someone has a new nomination available and the time they're able to do something about it. That's fine. However, if you are on the site and bidding on other players, you need to make your nominations at the same time. If this is you and you are currently bidding on players but not making your own nominations, please correct this as soon as possible.
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Draft is going pretty well overall but there is one concern that has been raised and needs to be addressed.
Nominations are not optional, unless you are choosing to end your draft. There is an advantage to be gained - particularly in the late stages - by not nominating your late game sleepers and instead waiting to see who other people's targets are. No one should be trying to gain that advantage.
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Thanks, didn't realize I needed to adjust that feature. Max nominations now increased to 36, should be good now if you try again.
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Ok, I tried to nominate a 3rd , wouldn’t let me because 24 max slots
Da’ Dukes🐲 on
February 26, 2025 6:47 AM
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Ok I added a nom for everyone. I think it was a permanent increase to 3 noms per person (as opposed to a one-time thing) but it wasn't entirely clear in the commish tools. If it resets back to 2 later, I'll adjust.
Let's keep draft sleep hours as is. Gotta have some give and take on both coasts for this to work, and I think it's already a little inconvenient for the clock to restart at 4am PT for anyone on the west coast. Wouldn't want to also shut it off at 5pm or 6pm PT for those
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To look and adjust my needs before work
Da’ Dukes🐲 on
February 26, 2025 3:25 AM
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I’m good with 3, I would like to see a time change for the sleep, I propose either 8-9 pm shut off till next morning, I’m a very early riser and I like
Da’ Dukes🐲 on
February 26, 2025 3:24 AM
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