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Yorkshire Monarchs's trade block has been updated!
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Chin Music's trade block has been updated!
Chin Music on
March 18, 2019 3:55 AM
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Bases Loaded's trade block has been updated!
Bases Loaded on
March 17, 2019 9:04 PM
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Champagne Super-Nova's trade block has been updated!
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Should open in 9 minutes
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At what time does the draft open?
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You can also see who a player was RFA'd by in the draft room.
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Awesome. Thanks.
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I don't know an easy way to find them, but the full list is: JDM, Yelich, Story, Baez, Verlander, Cole, Benintendi, Snell, Nola, Bauer, Chapman, and Price
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Hey all. Does anyone know of an easier way to find a list of the RFA players voted off each team in arbitration? The only way I can find is by looking at contract status on individual player pages. Cheers and see you all tomorrow!
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Just a little heads up about tomorrow's auction - less than 24 hours to go now! 4pm EST / 8pm GMT
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Nice try, KIDROBOT :)
Bases Loaded on
March 13, 2019 10:19 AM
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This means I get Aaron Nola back before the draft, yes? ;)
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Great, thanks commish!
Bases Loaded on
March 11, 2019 1:09 PM
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I've made the change to the arbitration system; from Vote Off to Allocation. With 8/12 confirmed in favour of the change and no-one opposed to it, seemed like a sensible, democratic decision.
Chin Music on
March 11, 2019 11:20 AM
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I’m in an agreement on the proposal to move to allocation.
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Scanning the league message board we seem to have Lawn Mauer, Yorkshire Monarchs, Monroe Doctrine, Bases Loaded and Special K's happy to move to an allocation arbitration system. Does anyone have any objections to switching?
Otto Thirteen on
March 10, 2019 11:09 AM
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Vote-off just seems unfair to me, especially to teams lower down the league. Altogether losing a breakout player will severely hinder a rebuilding process compared to just a salary increase. With allocation the pain of only having a small amount of talent on your roster is spread out by having them all hit instead of just one,
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I'm not sure how I feel about either the allocation system or the vote-off system, since player salaries are increased at the end of the year anyway. But of the two, I think I prefer the allocation system because it gives more control to the team owner.
Bases Loaded on
March 6, 2019 12:11 PM
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We are all for moving to an allocation system.
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No it is 8pm UK. The east coast is only 4 hours behind for a few weeks in march because they put their clocks forward a bit before the UK.
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Oops - just seen it. To check is that 9pm UK?
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Do we have a date set for the draft? Just trying to get my schedule sorted and I can see me doing a few drafts at the same time at this rate!
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I'm very much in favour of allocation over vote-off. I didn't mind either way about 5MiLB hence my lack of input but this is something I'm definitely behind.
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I wouldn't have a problem with moving to an allocation arbitration.
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What would people think of switching from a vote-off to an allocation style arbitration system in future years?
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Thanks very much for all the feedback on the 5MILB structure. Co-commish Phil and I have decided that on balance it doesn’t make sense to introduce it in this league as there is no fair way to do so. Lots of owners have committed cap space to prospects, and it would disadvantage them to bring in 5MILB now. So we will proceed as planned with the regular auction on March 17th at 4pm EST / 8PM GMT.
Otto Thirteen on
February 27, 2019 1:52 PM
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I'm in another Ottoneu league and we have 12 minor leaguers on Google sheets with the MILB draft taking place after the auction. Snake draft and once those players obtain 50IP or 150 AB they have to be promoted to your Ottoneu roster. Mostly just an excuse to have another draft but also makes you do a little digging for players.
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I guess I didn't reload the message board before asking my last question, because there was a lot that I missed.
Having caught up, my initial concerns with the MiLB proposal are:
1. How to do this fairly considering the minor leaguers that were already drafted.
2. Snake draft
3. Managing outside of Ottoneu
4. In-season MiLB pickups and drops?
I'm voting for keeping things the same for 2019 unless we can all get together and discuss.
Bases Loaded on
February 21, 2019 7:09 PM
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If we are going to do this, the suggestion from @Yorkshire a few messages down is probably the only way to do it fairly. Got to let people shift currently owned prospects off their 40 man roster if they want, but can't give them the benefit of reducing the salary. Regardless, we'd somewhat prefer not to make the switch at all, and certainly not pre-2019-draft. Appreciate the discussion all the way around though!
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From my perspective I took a long term view last year and bought quite a few prospects. Whilst I can understand the 5 MiLB concept I'd be slightly miffed if that meant that my strategy last season was for nought.
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How would that affect minor leaguers that we currently have on our rosters?
Bases Loaded on
February 19, 2019 12:54 PM
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I feel like that’s a choice owners should have to make with far away prospects. I bought Soto last year fully expecting to have to keep him in the minors for a year or two. I don’t want to add the milb draft. I would be okay with an allocation arbitration system in the future though (side-eyes cut $24 Chapman).
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It seems unfair to those who have players in A ball or AA to count against the salary cap but others don't, just for having the forethought to acquire them.
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Additionally, I don't love using the vote-off version of arbitration with this. We displayed some (IMO) pretty appalling vote offs (side-eyes still-owned $3 Soto), but you either have a player break out and lose them immediately at the end of the year or they're kept at $3.
If we doing 5MiLB I'd prefer to go to allocation arbitration.
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I get the Vlad point. Would it maybe be an option to be able to move currently owned players down, but when they are called up they are automatically assigned their current salary as it stands today? Vlad would likely only be on the Milb list for a few weeks and currently owned low minors players wouldn't continue to add to their salary until they are called up.
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Agree with @Lawn that it shouldn't happen before this year's draft. There were late-season decisions we made that were based around certain prospects being attainable auction draft targets.
If we're adding it, I wouldn't want to implement it for this season.
I would say currently owned prospects wouldn't be able to be added to the 5MiLB list - otherwise you have Vlad Jr being 5MiLB'd and then added to a roster for $1 instead of his current salary.
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@YM - oh right, sorry I didn't read the question properly! Personally I would say no, but I think we would have to agree that as a league as part of the introduction of the structure, were it to be introduced.
Otto Thirteen on
February 19, 2019 12:06 PM
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@Adios Pelota I'm talking about moving a player that I currently own and is on my 40 man roster right now. If this new rule comes in, could I move that player onto my 5Milb?
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@Yorkshire Monarchs - Yes, that option is at your disposal, you can add for $1 whenever you please
Otto Thirteen on
February 19, 2019 11:56 AM
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I think the milb structure still leaves enough of a balancing act between short and long term, with the added benefit of increased depth and strategy re trading prospects.
Otto Thirteen on
February 19, 2019 11:54 AM
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I don't hate the idea but have a question which might help me make up my mind. Would there be an option to move players currently on 40 man rosters who have yet to play a major league game onto the 5Milb?
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I also think that if we did that, it shouldn’t be before the auction because the top end guys would just get picked and it would just be a draft order thing, instead of giving every team the option of bid on them.
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I’d prefer not adding the milb structure. I like having to balance the short and long term needs on the roster.
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There is a good article with more info here, written by Joe Douglas, who designed the concept and co-authored the rules:
https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/ottoneu-101-the-5milb-structure
From hearing from people in leagues which operate the structure, both Phil and I feel that it will make the fantasy experience more immersive and enjoyable. What does everyone else think? Does anyone have any questions?
Otto Thirteen on
February 19, 2019 2:08 AM
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It would mean that prospects who are 2-3 years out from making their debuts can be introduced to the game proper when ready for $1, rather than $3-$6, and avoids league-wide inflation on prospects.
Minor leaguers would be picked in an offline, slow snake draft consisting of five rounds, conducted on the league's message board. The draft would have to be completed before we conduct the actual auction draft on March 17th.
Otto Thirteen on
February 19, 2019 2:07 AM
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Now the draft date is finalised, commissioners Phil and I are proposing that the league adopts a ‘5MiLB’ structure to add depth to the game and enhance our fantasy experience.
It would allow for up to 5 minor leaguers to be owned outside of the standard Ottoneu 40-man roster system for a salary of $0 each (with ownership and transaction history managed in a Google spreadsheet), and added to their 40-man roster for a $1 salary when they get called up to the bigs.
Otto Thirteen on
February 19, 2019 2:07 AM
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Awesome. See you all then!
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Thank the heavens. We've got 100% consensus on one of the auction draft options: Sunday 17th March @ 4pm ET/8pm GMT. Mark your calendars!
Chin Music on
February 18, 2019 5:41 PM
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Also, if we’re only able to get 10/11 of the teams whatever time slot we chose, if you’re the team(s) unable to make the draft you can post up in Slack and ask for someone to proxy draft for you.
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