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Thanks for the reminder! I've been so focused on fantasy baseball. I'll do arbitration tonight.
MyAnalyticsAreBetter at Mar 28, 2024 5:52 PM -
Last call on arbitration. It’s important that we have full participation, even if you’re not planning on participating next year.
Los Angeles Dons at Mar 28, 2024 4:43 PM -
Welcome to the new manager. This is a good reminder to complete arbitration. You MUST allocate all of your arbitration dollars by March 31. Even if you don’t plan on playing next season, it helps the rest of us if you complete this simple exercise.
Los Angeles Dons at Mar 20, 2024 10:45 AM -
Hi everyone, I just claimed a team in this league. I'm really excited for Fantasy Football!
MyAnalyticsAreBetter at Mar 19, 2024 11:09 PM -
Arbitration is open, don't forget to allocate your $ before the 3/31 deadline.
Team To Be Named Later at Feb 16, 2024 4:43 PM -
I mean, 3 are currently locked and abandoned and have been for 3+ weeks, including my friend. You are locked out until you pay, so it's impossible for those who haven't paid to change their lineups.
But 2 are the most problematic. Achilles told me he'll pay.
1. Post Hype declared his intent at the beginning of the season to be out. He's 3-9, and he was starting players on a bye week even before rosters were locked.
2. Action Boss is in the thick of the playoffs and still hasn't paid, and thus started four players on a bye this week.
Ludicrous Speed at Dec 4, 2023 4:17 PM -
Is it just one team that is truly abandoned?
Team To Be Named Later at Dec 4, 2023 3:38 PM -
Just want to point out that there are still 3 unpaid teams. Post Hype said he's out a few months ago, and Action Boss actually currently holds the 6th playoff spot and would have won this week, but started 4 players on a bye. Achilles is my buddy and he said he will pay (ahem...reminder).
Anyways, we need to figure this out soon because 1st and 2nd are going to get fucked over if they win and the teams are not all claimed.
Reading through the message board, what I've seen is that the league will revert to an unpaid league, and all of the paid players (9 or 10) will get a refund of their "prize portions" -- which in our case is $75, since our collective buy-in was $1,200 but the prizes only total $900. So all paid members who paid $100, will get a refund of $75. Including 1st and 2nd place. So instead of winning $600 and $300, you'll get to enjoy a nice refund of $75.
Link: https://community.ottoneu.com/t/teams-quitting-before-paying/13280/4?u=pretendcanadian
Important excerpt: "If your league has an expired team that was not paid for this season, we do a check that will result in your league being bumped down to a non-prize league and prize portion of the league fees returned to everyone who paid. This is exceedingly rare, but it is up to your league to put the effort in to find replacement managers to avoid this scenario. The Managers Wanted forums 3 are generally quite good at finding replacement managers. I would strongly recommend posting to that forum and trying to find some people up for the rebuild challenge."
So while it's actually personally better for me to get my $75 back because my team sucks, it blows for 1st and 2nd place and I'd like to see us try to take care of them.
For what it's worth, they are no longer requiring SSNs to make payments...so Post Hype and Action, if you even see this message, you can still pay and not need to give your SSN.
Ludicrous Speed at Dec 4, 2023 3:09 PM -
So the trade that I just agreed to with Ludicrous Speed is scheduled to complete at 12:57pm on Sunday, three minutes before the first NFL games kickoff but roughly two minutes after rosters lock for those early games. Unless anyone objects, we're going to manually move players at around 12:30pm on Sunday so players can be moved into place before active rosters lock. If you want to veto the trade, you have 47 hours, 33 minutes to do so, rather than the full 48 hours.
Because we can't manually create loans, I'm going to lower Ekeler's salary temporarily so I don't get locked out of my team. I'm also going to keep Freiermuth on my team (currently on IR and not playing), and then create a new trade with Ludicrous Speed and Freiermuth for the correct loan amount. After the Freiermuth trade clears on Tuesday, I'll readjust Ekeler's salary to $104, and everything will be square.
TLDR: the site locks rosters five minutes before kickoff for some weird reason and to honor the spirit of this trade before Sunday's games, we're going to manually make a series of transactions that will simulate the trade had it been made 10 minutes earlier!
Again, if anyone isn't cool with this, no hard feelings. Just let me know and we'll resubmit the trade so that it doesn't compromise our rosters this Sunday.
Los Angeles Dons at Nov 17, 2023 5:05 PM -
Canceled. Though you will rue the day your turned down $1 Sam Howell!
Los Angeles Dons at Oct 31, 2023 10:27 AM -
my note literally says “can’t do it now with Watson hurt”
Ludicrous Speed at Oct 31, 2023 8:18 AM -
Hi all,
I accidentally accepted a trade I meant to decline. Is there a way to undo?
Ludicrous Speed at Oct 31, 2023 8:18 AM -
Cutting bait on my two most expensive guys, Ekeler and Adams. Send me your offers.
Ludicrous Speed at Oct 23, 2023 1:27 PM -
Lost by .02 holy f**k. Second time that’s happened to me in Ottoneu.
Team To Be Named Later at Oct 10, 2023 12:01 AM -
It seems like he's still working with the payment processor to waive the requirement for SSN fees, based on Niv's response on the message board. Also, I don't even see a link anymore at the top for paying. So even if I decided I was ready to pay, I wouldn't be sure how to do it!
That said, I'm still on the fence and still waiting to hear.
He also said that in the event that owners vacate their teams after the deadline, that commissioners should be proactive in posting their league's open teams on the Ottoneu board looking for takers.
Ludicrous Speed at Sep 25, 2023 8:10 AM -
So is this going to be the last week? Who’s not going to renew?
MyAnalyticsAreBetter at Sep 24, 2023 7:08 PM -
I just saw on the message board that the payment deadline has been extended until 9/30 while Niv works on some details with Paydala specific for Ottoneu. Having read that, I'm happy to stick around and manage my team until that point and see if he's able get an exception for having to provide SSNs, or at least maybe he or Paydala can provide a better explanation on how our information is protected. (I know he posted some documents on the message board, but I'm not smart enough to understand what those mean.)
TL;DR: I'm sticking around for the next month and we'll wait and see.
Ludicrous Speed at Aug 30, 2023 3:46 PM -
I’m out
Post Hype Sleepers at Aug 30, 2023 12:16 PM -
I’m out
Post Hype Sleepers at Aug 30, 2023 12:16 PM -
The link is to the conversation that many have regarding privacy concerns and SSN. I read through it and there is a section that has the security reports that the payment network has for the services they use. Might give some comfort that they are not using fly by night firm to process their information and the firms they are using are attested to from a security and controls standpoint. Of course everyone will arrive at their own conclusion but just passing along.
HU5KIES at Aug 29, 2023 4:14 PM -
Yes, I saw that. I am unconvinced.
Ludicrous Speed at Aug 29, 2023 4:11 PM -
https://community.ottoneu.com/t/concerns-re-personal-information-and-paydala/13221
HU5KIES at Aug 29, 2023 4:10 PM -
Yeah, I haven’t paid yet for the same reason. Most of the leagues I’m in are on sleeper app. Very user friendly.
Cool Hand Luke at Aug 29, 2023 3:01 PM -
Hey all. How many of you have paid for the league yet? I'm extremely hesitant to pay with this new provider that requires a SSN and might drop out of the league. I love Otto format, you guys are cool, and I love my team this year, so it's particularly painful. I realize the creator of Otto was dealt a bad hand with PayPal and a short timeframe to turn things around, but I'm hesitant to turn my SSN over to a small company with almost no online footprint.
So, I wanted to get a gauge of how many people have taken the plunge and paid so far. If NO ONE has paid, I'd propose trying our best to mimic this in Yahoo or something else. But if this is where we part, so be it.
Ludicrous Speed at Aug 29, 2023 2:43 PM -
Geez.. missed the whole thing didn’t think we were drafting any time soon. That’s brutal.
Post Hype Sleepers at Aug 24, 2023 6:47 AM -
After a last minute schedule change on my part and catastrophic tech issues last night, I’m looking for offers on guys to reshape this roster. Willing to talk on pretty much anyone.
Team To Be Named Later at Aug 23, 2023 1:34 PM -
Draft is in three hours. 9pm ET / 6pm PT
Los Angeles Dons at Aug 22, 2023 6:03 PM -
Ya not sure how that happened, but the site thought we drafted already. Niv fixed it this morning and you will now see the draft lobby option at the top of your page. Reminder, draft is in two days. Tuesday night, August 22 at 9pm ET / 6pm PT.
Los Angeles Dons at Aug 20, 2023 11:54 AM -
I’m not trying to be a problem, just wondering
HU5KIES at Aug 16, 2023 11:09 PM -
Why are the week 1 matchups showing and players are available to start FAAB auctions? Looks like we skipped the draft and started the season
HU5KIES at Aug 16, 2023 10:59 PM -
Works for me
Team To Be Named Later at Aug 10, 2023 12:01 PM -
Awesome, thanks for locking it in and thanks for organizing!
Ludicrous Speed at Aug 10, 2023 12:01 PM -
Yes, August 22 it is. 9PM ET / 6PM PT
Los Angeles Dons at Aug 10, 2023 11:59 AM -
Looks like Tue 22-Aug PM is the best draft option in the file. Should we lock in on that ?
HU5KIES at Aug 10, 2023 11:52 AM -
Great job to the entire league for getting their cuts in and rosters legal ahead of tonight's deadline. Next order of business is choosing a draft date, please use this link to provide your availability closer to the start of the season. Green means "you're available", yellow means "available but less than ideal" and red means "unavailable". If we select a PM time, I imagine it will be at 6pm PT / 9pm ET. Please speak now regarding draft availability if you have hard stop/start times.
Los Angeles Dons at Jul 31, 2023 5:21 PM -
Last 24 hours to make cuts/select keepers for the coming season…
Los Angeles Dons at Jul 30, 2023 11:20 PM -
Reminder that keepers/cuts are due Monday, July 31.
Los Angeles Dons at Jul 26, 2023 5:33 PM -
Reminder that the keeper deadline is the 31st. Players that will not be kept need to be cut before the deadline.
Los Angeles Dons at Jul 19, 2023 10:55 PM -
One week left to lock in arbitration allocations! If you don’t see “Arbitration Complete” on your personal arbitration page, then you have work to do. The system won’t accept any of your allocations if it’s incomplete.
Los Angeles Dons at Mar 26, 2023 1:53 PM -
Arbitration is open, and you have until the end of the month to lock in your allocations. You must allocate at least $1 to the other 11 teams and you must use your entire allotment across the league or else none of your allocations will count. About half the league has completed the task, but we need full participation.
Los Angeles Dons at Mar 8, 2023 11:15 PM -
*Starting* Hurts! Meant to say “starting” Hurts! Anyway, you get the joke.
Los Angeles Dons at Dec 30, 2022 12:08 PM -
Benching Hurts and still winning is elite analytics
Los Angeles Dons at Dec 30, 2022 11:41 AM -
I can’t believe I missed that Hurts wasn’t playing and still going to the championship ?
Yes it sounds like sour grapes ?
MyAnalyticsAreBetter at Dec 26, 2022 11:24 PM -
Especially after leading the league in points
Team To Be Named Later at Dec 26, 2022 8:39 PM -
This is going to sound like sour grapes but losing this matchup with 2nd most points of the week is pretty crappy.
Team To Be Named Later at Dec 26, 2022 8:37 PM -
Haha, good discussion and thanks to EZ for the legit LOLs.
Final note: TTBNL: You have $10 of cap space and Moss went for $1. So you didn't want him that bad! Haha.
Ludicrous Speed at Dec 22, 2022 4:08 PM -
Ya, the last one was a joke.
Los Angeles Dons at Dec 22, 2022 2:41 PM -
Apologies fellas. I definitely wasn’t trying to be a toxic pill. To be honest I was grabbing QBs in all my leagues at the start of the season as the landscape at the position just looked so barren after the top 10 that I just wanted to stay out of that (I really don’t buy in to the “Late Round QB” concept). Plus we are playing dynasty so there is always something more on the line than just the current season, right. Anyway sorry to be a pest.
HU5KIES at Dec 22, 2022 2:22 PM -
I, Erogenous Zone, am Zack Moss. I acknowledge it appears odd that I just now put a claim in for myself, but I was irrelevant earlier this year. So much so even my pet gerbil Randy would violently puke at the mere sight of me.
Achilles Heel at Dec 22, 2022 2:03 PM -
I mean, Zack Moss was available to everyone three days ago...
To recap, I started that auction on Sunday while I was still alive in the playoffs. I didn't survive, I was over the limit, so I just cut Moss.
Really the issue here is that Huskies didn't trade me a QB when I needed one, otherwise I would still be alive in the playoffs and none of this would have happened...
Los Angeles Dons at Dec 22, 2022 2:01 PM