League Message Board
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Lol
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That was a strong edible you ate
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That is so weird… I swear last night when I was trying to organize my lineup, I only showed 31 players on my roster and a lot of my pitchers were missin. But everyone is there now. So so strange. Thanks for checking and getting back to me and sorry for the bother. And of course, I started a bunch of auctions to try and desperately grab people. Strange days!
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I count 40 players on your team
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You do have 40 players already...
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Hey commissioner… I don't know how this somehow got by me, but I was looking at my roster and couldn't understand why I didn't have more slots available for pictures because my roster page says 40 out of 40, but I just counted my roster and I've only got 31 on my roster. Do you have any idea what's going on? Can I pick up 9 players?
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Papi, I went and fixed it. All good.
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Are you sure It’s me, don’t have him on my roster and not in auctions or waivers
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Sorry guys, my bad. I will cut him for you two guys to bid on tomorrow
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No, anyone can start an auction, but they can only bid on the auctions they start.
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Fixed. Please give them through tomorrow guys.
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Don't want to further rile feathers… But my understanding was that little sluggers & my donutz would have the ability to be sole bidders on players [unless player was nominated by someone else & we didn't place a bid]. But big papi bid up on Nolan Jones & & snagged him from under us. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that it wasn't until Sunday the other teams could start snagging whoever they want? [I do acknowledge & am grateful that everybody in league was
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Papi and Chicago - looks like you guys bid on Jones, Ginkel, and Abreu in auctions that you didn't start, while we have this special little window where teams that missed the auction can add players (see prior messages from commissioner).
Hang It Bang It, do you think you can fix those auctions? Looks like Krazy should get Jones for $3, and I should get Abreu for $2 and Ginkel for $1.
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Unfortunate how this all played out. I’ll happily do whatever helps. Thanks again for all the supportive words I’ve received. Looking forward to a fun season
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They have through Sunday at 11:59pm
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If you didn't start the auction, do not bid.
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Don't they have to tell us who they want so no one bids on them? I did not think we could tell who nominates a player
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Welcome to the league.
All auctions you and Krazy put up should be a battle between only between you two. Other teams can put up bids as well and you two can out bid them as normal.
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Nice to meet you sluggers. BTW – my name is Peter. I don't know anyone in the league but I know you love the league. I actually haven't put any waivers in yet. I'll list them here shortly. And I might go after a few players I see on the waiver list that I might go after as well. Thanks
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Hi everyone - I just took over the team that SABRtooth tigers left. I just read through and got up to speed on the league drama.
Only 1 of the open auctions was initiated by my team. I'm planning on following the commish's latest message and not bidding on the other auctions that were presumably started by Krazy. I'm going to start some auctions and I'm assuming that I'm just bidding against Krazy for those guys.
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To be clear to the entire league, you can still put players up for auction, but you cannot bid on any auctions you did not put up through this Sunday March 16th (unless you're Krazy). If Krazy outbids you, then so be it, if not then you get the player.
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In the end, while I understand your point, that's the advantage that you get for missing the draft. I understand that's not a fair trade, but is actually a strategy I've seen teams use.
You still have to want to roster the player that's up for bid. If that means everyone for a while, then so be it.
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The only thing I'm worried about is that I will have a lot of money during the season and could potentially win every single waiver claim. And I think that everyone would grow to despise my donutz for that. Hopefully it won't come to that, but just wanted to bring it up as a potential speed bump down the road. Thank you all again. And in the midst of all this, I hope that the funeral services were as well as they could have been Saxonville.
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I don't want to keep explaining to the commissioner why I missed the draft so I will leave that in my rearview mirror. I appreciate all of you wanting to work this out. I will post a list of the players I want to fill out my roster and thank you for not bidding on those players. It seems as though the new team that has taken over sabertooth should also get that opportunity?
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SABR is officially out. Waiting to heat from Krazy. I had no idea why they missed the draft and when I saw the majority of people in the draft I just assumed they had their reasons. Its an unfortunate situation, but other than what we're offering which is to not bid on any guys that they put up for auction, there isn't anything we can do at this point.
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Is SABRtooth officially removed? If so, never mind what I said about the Rengifo bidding. Was there an offline message as I did not get that from his last post since he listed players he wanted and the need to possibly coordinate with KKD?
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I’m more than willing to not bid. I am also willing to work trades on players I drafted that might interest the teams who missed the draft. Sabretooth is right, it should be fun and whatever I can do to keep things going, I would love to help. Typically you lose one or two owners a year but usually because of time commitments or finances not because owners are disgruntled. Fingers crossed 🤞
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Krazy let me know if you'd like to leave the league as well. If not, we'll give you until Sunday to make $1 claims as all of the league has agreed to. If I don't hear from you, I will assume you are staying in.
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SABRtooth has been removed from the league per his request.
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Hi Everyone, It looks like Rengifo is the only one on SABRtooth’s list that is currently under auction. If you would not mind, could anyone bidding on Rengifo, change your Bid to $1. I am heading to the airport, but happy to put the others on the list up for auction with a $1 max bid allowing SABRtooth to bid $2 and get them for $1.
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Happy to not bid. I'm all for finding ways to make everyone feel like the league is equitable, etc. I'm brand new to Ottoneu so I'm probably less capable of imagining other options, but also would be open to them.
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Tylor Megill, Kirk, Pavin, Canning, Wagner, Yoshida, Winker. These were the players that interest me. Plus Regnifo. But you have Donuts to consider. But honestly with the Commish’s response, I would rather and leave my team. It is good, someone will pick it up. I do Otto for fun. This isn’t fun.
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SABRtooth, I think we can get most owners to big on players you want and effectively do your proposal to pick what you want. If there is anything on the board now, just say and let’s see if we can get everyone to change their bids to $1. Then pick others you want and try the same.
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There was no other message on the board after that message where you said you would move the draft back. Abandoned my team I’m done with this.
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I won't bid on the players you both nominate until Sunday March 16
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It's up to each owner on whether or not they want to allow you to both to add $1 players. I cannot stop them from bidding, but if you nominate a player for the next few days, I won't bid on them.
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Hey guys, I did message the league, in reply to Saxonville and saying we would push the time back as he requested, which I did right after that message on the 10th. I never mentioned moving the draft date or doing any type of slow couch draft, so the assumption should have been we were moving forward with the draft date that was set for two weeks. I'm sorry this happened, but everyone else including Saxonville was aware of when the draft was based off the messages sent out to the league.
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I logged on for the draft because the time never changed. There was a lot of chatter on the board which probably made it confusing but the commish just said he was moving it back in time. Sorry you guys missed it, I was taking care of kids (1&3) so no message from me. I'm good with Cascade's idea. I won't bid on anything.
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How about this, people nominate players SABRtooth wants (and KKD if he wants), and then bid the required $1. Put in the chat you are nominating for SABRtooth and no one else bids on the player. SABRtooth bids $2 and gets the player for $1. A self-managed way to get to SABRtooth's request
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Sabertooth… Thanks for sticking up for us. I thought Fairbanks message that I was to blame for missing the draft as well was a crap sandwich but I didn’t want to play the victim or anything. I’m not even sure that I could field a team even if we do split the players up. I’ve never missed a draft in my life either. And my team was really strong last year. So I’m just not sure yet. Would sure be nice if the commissioner chimed in.
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Fairbanks - I get the intent of your comment but it is kinda offensive. Based on the commish's inactivity, you notice he isn't responding, we made someone draft late at night driving home from the wake of someone close to the family. That is kinda terrible, baseball is second fiddle. There are a tons of messages on here asking for it to be moved. I have never missed a draft in my life. I received nothing from Otto or anyone that the draft was moved back or happening.
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If I could get some combo of Tylor Megill, Kirk, Pavin, Canning, Wagner, Yoshida, Winker. I would be okay with my team. It won two years ago and got second last year., so I don't really want to give it up since it is a profit generator for me (this will def jinx me). I don't need much. I am happy to split of these dudes with Donutz too, if he wants some of them.
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Big Papi-I definitely appreciate your encouragement & desire to try and fix the situation. I wasn't trying to be hyperbolic by simply abandoning my team. Moving forward, my team would not be competitive whatsoever with what's left on the waiver wire. And I, or someone who took over my team, I/they would be behind the eight ball for years. I'm not sure I see a solution to other than a re-draft or cutting my team and putting my players on the waiver wire for others. But we're open to sugge
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Solution for the Donutz's money cap? Let us put all our heads together and fix this
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Why don't we try to fix this so that everyone is happy and we can go on with the league, baseball is just around the corner, it should be easy to fix. Maybe Commish should of sent a post to inform us of draft final date and timing. Personally, I got the info last minute, don't remember where. Let's give them opportunity to pick their players from free agent pool. The only thing is that Donuts will quite a bunch of money left for loans, waivers and auctions, that could unbalance the league
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It seems as though we have a commissioner that is not very active so commissioner, if you read this, please reach out to me because I would like to abandon my team. I play fantasy baseball as a source of joy and happiness and competitiveness. It doesn't matter what I say or do at this point in time. You can just go to an 11 team league or a 10 team league or find someone who wants a lame team and just put my players on waivers. It's too bad because I enjoyed this league.
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But I still can’t get behind finger pointing because at least some of the blame falls on you and it will take sacrifice from everyone else to rectify the situation. You’re right, no amount of money will matter with what is on the wire for you or whoever might have to replace you which puts the league in a bad situation.
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And I guess when you say there was enough communication for 10 of the owners, I don't know anybody in this league personally whatsoever. So I don't know if that's the reason why no one tried to text me or email me or send me a message here and Otteneu to let me know the draft for starting and asked me if I was coming. I don't want to sound like a sore loser, but if it's not rectified, I probably have no choice but to abandon my team at this point.
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Thanks for your understanding Fairbanks… However even though it was pushed back 2 hours, which I did notice, I still was going by the last thing the commissioner posted which was that he would find a later date and time. I tip my cap to you other 10 owners that figured it out. I am generally a savvy fantasy baseball player and I've been doing it for over two decades. I've never had a situation like this.
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Terrible situation. I am all for doing what needs to be done to keep people from bailing. Also worth noting that the draft date has been posted since February 28th and although it was pushed back two hours it still happened on the posted date. There was enough communication for 10 out of 12 owners to make it and the same level I have had with the other leagues I have drafted in this year. Completely understand the frustration.
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