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Auction is officially over. IRB messaged me separately saying he was done, so I ended Capitol's auctions, imported rosters, fixed vote-off player salaries, and reconciled everything back to CM. You should be free to make any new auctions now and please let me know if you see any errors or have any concerns.
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Apologies everyone, I nominated my last two players. Unless IRB snipes me, I'll be done this evening.
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The auction draft on Couch Managers is not done yet. Rosters have not been imported from CM to Ottoneu, so please stop nominating players. @IRB and @Capitol - are you guys done with the CM auction after current bids are up? I'm changing the nomination period to 6 hours so we can finish.
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It says they are FA on players tab and on list of teams owning player at bottom of page of player profile. Those four but maybe more..............I would stop all auctions until this mystery is resolved before we face a major disaster and chaos (he's my player, no he's mine blah blah blah)
Wiz Whit’ on
March 20, 2023 12:50 PM
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Well, I'm not the one who started the auctions but it seems Buxton, Tucker, Arozarena and Vazquez are FA and not owned by anyone ???? Maybe it got screwed up in transfer from CM to Ottoneu?
Wiz Whit’ on
March 20, 2023 12:46 PM
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who is starting auctions? All of those players have already been drafted.
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It would be the same player if a Ray.
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I still don’t see him on my list of players on Couch Manager
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I see Josh Lowe in the Couch Managers player pool already, but at the MLB level. I'm assuming he's the same as the Ottoneu MiLB Josh Lowe. Is there another MiLB Josh Lowe we need to add?
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Lake City can you add Josh Lowe MiLB Rays to our list of players available? Thanks
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Now that most of the big names are off the board, I increased our noms per team from 1 to 2 and max noms to 24.
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Actually, there is an SP one and a SP/DH one so we have the right one. I'll just nominate Ohtani now and get him over with.
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Also, please note there are two Ohtani's in the draft pool. I emailed the CM guy asking to remove one but he didn't want to. So let's only use the SP Ohtani. DO NOT nominate the DH Ohtani.
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Alright everyone -- the auction on Couch Managers is officially live! Feel free to start making noms. We each are allowed 1 nom to start based on the requests from a few managers to start slowly with big name players. We'll then speed up in a few days. I've triple checked the keeper import process and available roster space/money and everything looks good to me, but please let me know ASAP if something looks off.
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At the top of the page it still says draft day March 15th. Maybe he thinks it's starting then.
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Are we unable to start with that team missing?
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I'm in the auction now. Looks like we're missing one person.
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I think we can do that for the first 12-24 picks then we need to speed up the process. I changed everyone's noms to 1 and total of 12 to start, but will increase thereafter.
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I agree with this. High dollar players take a lot of your capital at the start not allowing us to place money elsewhere. People could miss out on a player because too much of there money is allocated to one player they may not even get. Even if the first 40 nominations are done one or two at a time then bump it up to whatever everyone sees fit.
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Any chance we can start the first two days with only 1 nomination? Or 2?
AZ Batflips on
March 11, 2023 2:14 PM
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Still need three of you to join the CM auction -- https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=521. Password is "Ottoneu"
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Sure, the draft page has the settings down the right hand side. I currently have it set at 12 hours for initial bid, and 4 hours for rebids/outbids (only applies if ticker is below 4 hours at the time of bid). I also set it up for all timers to pause from 2am-6am EST like last year. Happy to discuss any changes anyone would like to make. I know Bluegrass does a lot of these. This is the only auction league I use CouchManagers for.
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What are the times again on the draft? For example when you initially put someone up to bid they stay out there for how many hours? Then if someone outbids it adds how many hours? I may be jammed up mid-day Sunday and not get on until the evening.
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Oops - password is "Ottoneu"
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When I go to the draft it tells me I need a password
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https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=521
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Alright everyone - we'll be doing our slow draft on Couch Managers again. If everyone could please join the CM draft at the link in my next message to come, that would be great. Please name your team consistent with Ottoneu. To edit, go to the bottom right. We need everyone to join, then I can upload the rosters and align keepers. We'll plan to start Sunday at 12pm PST, which will give us a bit over 2 weeks to draft and nominate any FAs to replace IL bound players before opening day on 3/30.
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Sounds good
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sounds good
Super Crazy on
February 21, 2023 7:30 PM
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Part of the vote a few weeks ago was to maintain the slow draft on CouchManagers, so we'll start that 2-2.5 weeks before the start of the season, so around 3/12. I think 2-2.5 weeks was plenty of time to get it done and we can accelerate the last few picks as needed if we're getting close to the season. I'd still like to leave 2-3 days between end of draft and season start to for teams to make any roster edits via auctions. Let me know if anyone disagrees.
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If it is slow draft I can probably sneak it in any time.
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any evening is fine with me
Super Crazy on
February 19, 2023 12:02 AM
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League thoughts on when we should start the draft?
I’ve been enjoying the slow draft format on couch managers and would vote to keep it.
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Doesn’t matter to me
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I forgot to add that to our polling, but I don't believe anyone was against the switch. Anyone against a switch to combine into a single division?
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Sorry if I missed the post. How will we be handling divisions moving forward?
AZ Batflips on
January 31, 2023 3:36 PM
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Alrighty sounds like we'll be keeping the vote-off system as is for at least another year, but I think it'd be a good exercise to discuss under what context we'd like to switch. I personally think it's a better long-term solution, but I also think we have a good thing going as it is. Reminder that keepers/cuts are due by tomorrow at 11:59PM EST/8:59PM PST!
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Indeed it is, some days last March I had 4 or 5 drafts same day and ''I only had 40 leagues''. Though a lot of my teams are pretty much set to go, got to plan on an Excel spreadsheet and calendar so I won't miss any. It's almost a full time GM job but without the salary. I would say about 50-60 are 20$ tier just for the fun of it. Think I'm goin to join Ottoneu Anonymous at a church near me...hahaha
Wiz Whit’ on
January 29, 2023 4:08 PM
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100+? Seriously? That’s crazy if it’s true. Either way, no judgement here. So what you’re saying is you basically pay Niv’s salary with your buy-in $. You’re single handedly creating jobs! America!
Lineups aside, draft season must be insane.
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More than 100, it's crazy. Since I stopped beer and smoking, I'm putting that money on Ottoneu, at least I'm having fun until I have to do all those lineups every day...............
Wiz Whit’ on
January 29, 2023 12:46 PM
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Question for Big Papi:
How many leagues do you play in?!?!
Every time I scroll down on an individual player page to look at "recent transactions" involving that player, inevitably, at least one of those transactions involved Big Papi memories. It seems you have at least one share of every damn player in the Ottoneu ecosystem. Are you in like 57 different leagues?
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Sorry I missed the survey monkey. I just voted, but sounds like we are sticking with vote-off. I’m generally agnostic, but again, if we switched, I’d want a slow transition. I agree with AZ in that it would represent a significant strategic shift in team construction.
This is a good league with good managers. Knowing how challenging it can be to keep leagues going for the long-term, that should be the focus. Competitive keeper/dynasty leagues are way more fun that one-off redraft le
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Agree with requirement of majority (if you recall my vote wa for arb)
Wiz Whit’ on
January 27, 2023 4:54 PM
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I agree with Capital Hill. While I would like to try Arb $ I think it should be a majority. At least 3/4 should be in favor of it IMHO.
OnBaseBunters on
January 27, 2023 3:02 PM
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Even though I would prefer $ arb, I agree with Capitol Hill on this one. I also feel like more weight should be given to the original members and Commissioners votes. This will only be my third year in this league. It has been fun and I don't want to mess it up.
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Opinion, but for a change this fundamental to the mechanics/experience of the league, there should be a large majority in favor of a change.
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Well, we're currently split at 5 to 5 for allocation vs vote off. Who are the last two teams who have not voted?
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Please make sure to submit your responses on the SurveyMonkey link. It’s anonymous so I can’t gather there and also via comments here. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9BY8YZS
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LOL @ BOP. Personally, I prefer the vote system.
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I prefer allocation because I want to add my $3 to Capitol Hill's pitching staff!!! :)
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