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• great work guys!
  13 it is at Jul 23, 2024 4:05 PM
• A friend from me and Bosa’s Ottoneu baseball league claimed the spot - assuming that works for you Chickens
  Lake Gage Lornes at Jul 23, 2024 3:22 PM
• DRAFT: I'm pretty flexible on a draft date. (Evening preference during week.) Any thoughts, Commish?
  
  NEW GM: I have been reaching out to some people but no takers yet. I'll post a note on my Ottoneu baseball league's board too in case we have some "two-sport" Ottoneu players there.
  Squirrel Interrupted at Jul 23, 2024 3:10 PM
• Also we need a new GM? Anybody know anybody?
  Lake Gage Lornes at Jul 23, 2024 2:34 PM
• Preferably a weekend night, but I can make any night work with enough notice
  Round Rock Armadillos at Jul 23, 2024 1:55 PM
• Any idea yet about this year's draft date?
  Black and Blue at Jul 23, 2024 1:54 PM
• Hey Bossa, I should also be available, unless family obligations come up. Let's chat closer to the time to figure something out.
  King of the North at Jul 22, 2024 9:00 AM
• @Bosa, sounds great! I will definitely make every attempt to meet up. We can coordinate when September comes
  13 it is at Jul 21, 2024 8:28 PM
• Also: PLEASE remember to EXTEND your dynasty (team control) with Ottoneu as you work towards the Keeper Deadline. Make your cuts, pay the piper, and get ready for football. :)
  
  For you Montrealers, if you have a window the afternoon or evening of September 13 (a Friday), I am currently scheduled to be in the city (downtown, likely at the Intercontinental across from the Palais) that afternoon/evening ahead of a long day of meetings on September 14 with a flight out early Sunday. But I'd be down for an Ottoneu meetup, maybe in Old Montreal, if you Northern Realmers have a little free time. Cheers!
  Squirrel Interrupted at Jul 21, 2024 5:56 PM
• No worries, NOT Tim! Thank you for playing last season. I’ve got feelers out for guys to jump in.
  Squirrel Interrupted at Jul 21, 2024 5:47 PM
• Hi everyone! I'll have to bow out of this league this year unfortunately. Good luck everyone!
  Tackle Me Elmos at Jul 21, 2024 5:09 PM
• It's funny that the "Available" notes under TRADE can include a player you no longer have! Round Rock traded Josh Allen to King of the North but didn't change his "Available" note. Hence, BOTH teams now show Josh Allen as available for trade. I thought, "That's cold: putting another team's QB on the market like that...."
  Squirrel Interrupted at Jul 17, 2024 11:20 AM
• Lake is back! :)
  
  Thanks for the reminder. Looking forward to another season with you all
  13 it is at Jul 14, 2024 12:42 PM
• Hey yall just a reminder that the keeper deadline is July 31st at 11:59 PM. Two weeks to go!
  Lake Gage Lornes at Jul 14, 2024 9:26 AM
• Hey guys, we’ve got four teams that still need to do arbitration: Chickens, Ditka, YBB4, and Tim. The deadline is midnight on Sunday, March 31st. I promise it will take you at max 10 minutes. Please do it! It makes the league much more fair and much more fun.
  Lake Gage Lornes at Mar 29, 2024 9:42 AM
• It's great to see 3/4 of the league has already done their arbitration!
  We still have a month to get it done, but I know baseball season is coming up and a lot of your attention will be shifting to drafts and getting teams set up for that season. Let's not let this slip through the cracks, everyone participating really makes the league better!
  Also don't forget, if you have already completed it, you are welcome to adjust where you allocate your $ right up until the deadline.
  Hope everyone is having a good winter...
  King of the North
  King of the North at Mar 1, 2024 9:49 AM
• Don't forget Arbitration, y'all!
  Round Rock Armadillos at Feb 22, 2024 2:19 PM
• Proof positive: I just did arb right after posting that last message. 12 minutes! A bit more than my estimate but not bad.
  Lake Gage Lornes at Feb 15, 2024 11:58 AM
• Hey yall! Arbitration starts today. It typically takes between five and 10 minutes and it makes the league so much fairer. Without arbitration, basically all the good players stay cost-controlled. The system does some of it automatically, but just to be crystal clear: with arbitration you can heap salary increases on certain players so that managers are forced to cut them, and then you can pick them up in the auction!
  
  Get it done! But don’t worry, I will continue to bug you about it.
  Lake Gage Lornes at Feb 15, 2024 11:46 AM
• Yo, King of the North! Congrats again on a great season--and thank you for giving us a 2024-2025 league name! (KICKIN' CHICKENS: Please update the league name when you can!)
  
  As for the Super Bowl, I feel like KC will find a way ... but I really like the story of Mr. Irrelevant uncorking a crazy throw late to steal the game, if only to frustrate Cam Newton.
  Squirrel Interrupted at Feb 10, 2024 10:01 PM
• I apologize for the delay, but as your King of the North, I would like to welcome you all to "The Realm of the North's Fantasy Conquest" league.
  Who do you all have in the Superbowl? SF is stacked, but Mahomes is Mahomes... I think it's going to be a really good game!
  King of the North at Jan 30, 2024 12:36 PM
• Champion o champion -
  
  We are nameless! Bereft! Cease our torment and dub us in your image.
  Lake Gage Lornes at Jan 28, 2024 8:50 PM
• and, welcome to the new manager of Grizzlies!
  13 it is at Jan 1, 2024 3:20 PM
• Congrats to Spare Parts … what a convincing win!
  
  Many thanks to all for making this THE best pool (that I am involved with). The banter makes it so much (more) fun. For those of you who also noted, it ain’t that serious!
  
  Also (again), a shout-out to Bosa for being the “spokesperson extraordinaire” who made a difficult entry and transition into Ottoneu (soon-to-be-name-changed) a LOT easier.
  
  Happy New Year to all; take care, and I look forward to seeing you next season!
  13 it is at Jan 1, 2024 1:57 PM
• Wow. What an inaugural season for us. I am honored to be our first CHAMPION!!!
  Great season, Love Wins - your team was truly an intimidating group to go up against, and after handling me easily in our back-to-back, was not happy to be seeing you for the 3rd time in the finals! Congrats on a great season.
  Thanks for the congrats notes, and welcome to the league new Girzzlies owner. You've joined a pretty good group here.
  I'll get back to everyone with the new league name in the coming days... I really did not expect to win and have not put much thought into it yet!
  Happy New Year to all, nothing but health and happiness for 2024.
  King of the North at Jan 1, 2024 11:47 AM
• Hahaha! He DOES win rings. That's true. Not a bad strategy.
  Squirrel Interrupted at Dec 31, 2023 11:46 PM
• That dude wins rings
  Love is Patient at Dec 31, 2023 11:43 PM
• I was trying to add some veteran presence for the championship.
  Love is Patient at Dec 31, 2023 11:43 PM
• Wait a minute. WHICH ONE OF YOU AUCTIONED TOM BRADY!? This has been such a mystery to me.
  Squirrel Interrupted at Dec 31, 2023 11:38 PM
• WOW! Spare Parts, yer dawgs were bitin' today. Dang! What a championship. 194+ pts!! An atypical result for any squad, but certainly impressive--and what a time to uncork that! It's been made possible in no small part by keeping yer eye on available players and refreshing yer squad. WELL DONE! A deserving champion. Our league bows to you as you roll up your sleeves and prepare to bestow us a new league name to carry into 2024. Cheers! :)
  
  Love Wins: You have been such a consistent, strong player. So many roster moves! Division B was a heck of a smithy. Really great season!
  
  You But Better: 3rd Place! Nice job, friend. You and Lake Gage had an incredible close match, but put the sail up on Sunday night and rocketed out to the Sea of Champions. Some hardware to you!
  
  Lake Gage: Fantastic result for your first foray into fantasy football! And 10 straight wins this season? That's absurd. Well done!
  
  Thank you all for making this a great season! I hope you stay tuned and keep building your squads.
  
  SPARE PARTS: You are on the clock for renaming our league for 2024!
  
  >> the ball drops, confetti sprays, New Yorkers kiss, and everyone tries to sing that Auld Lang Syne song for which they don't actually know the lyrics ... <
  Squirrel Interrupted at Dec 31, 2023 11:33 PM
• great bunch of guys and thank you commish
  
  Here is a fun fact that only a few people know about me...
  i have a guilty pleasure that is fantasy football ,that i do lots of research but here is the kicker, i haven't watched football for the last 5 years and my favourite team is the Rams and they won the Superbowl.
  i love the fact of drafting college players and managing roasters and competing.
  You but better 4 at Dec 31, 2023 10:57 PM
• Ageee 100%. Me and Bosa Nova are in an Ottoneu baseball league, and everyone is so damn grouchy! Like we’re adults playing pretend! Can’t we all just have fun?
  
  And while we’re engaging in some backslapping and here here’s, let’s raise a glass to to my cousin Bosa Nova for his expert statistical analysis, hype machining, and general cruise directing! Thanks for making things more fun!
  Lake Gage Lornes at Dec 31, 2023 10:22 PM
• I am in 4 leagues and this league has a very good energy ... thank you guys for a great season
  You but better 4 at Dec 31, 2023 10:02 PM
• Yes congrats to Spare Parts! But also congrats to YBB4, you really opened up a lead! Fun year in fantasy world.
  Lake Gage Lornes at Dec 31, 2023 9:57 PM
• Huge game for Spare Parts! And a very close contest for 3rd place. I’ll have to check in again to see who wins that one. Congrats to all the playoff teams!
  Black and Blue at Dec 31, 2023 7:44 PM
• Well done spare parts
  You but better 4 at Dec 31, 2023 6:41 PM
• Congrats to Spare Parts! BTW, I'm the new owner of the Grizzlies.
  Coulda Been a Contender.REALM at Dec 31, 2023 6:10 PM
• Barring a very surprising turn of events, Spare Parts is going to cruise to the ?. What a playoff run!
  Love is Patient at Dec 31, 2023 1:45 PM
• It'll be a Division B Championship match! Congrats to Spare Parts and Love Wins on their playoff victories. Love, the league's second-highest-performing offense and tied for best regular season record, again got steady production from his squad; while Spare went forward with some other-worldly WR showings (68.5 pts from Amari Cooper and Tee Higgins!!). Interestingly, Love & Spare did not have to battle unto back-to-back weeks (11 & 12) this season, so their playoff rosters will be very close to those matchups. Love took both matches (and the division by 1 game), but each has many players on NFL playoff or battling-for-playoff-position teams--so there's good reason to believe that their rosters will not be resting this week.
  
  Good luck to both! Start thinking of what you want to name this league for next season, because the winner gets to set our next season's identity. :) Cheers!
  Squirrel Interrupted at Dec 26, 2023 12:13 PM
• Hey I just wanna say: it’s really nice to play fantasy sports with such a genteel group of lads. Fantasy can be a font of backbiting and tantrums - see: Tommy Pham punching Joc Pederson - and it’s so refreshing to play in a league this collegial and fun. Cheers!
  Lake Gage Lornes at Dec 26, 2023 11:33 AM
• Congrats to the two finalists
  You but better 4 at Dec 26, 2023 10:44 AM
• Thank you. They say it's hard to beat the same team three times, and it sure looks like Spare Parts is peaking at the right time.
  Love is Patient at Dec 26, 2023 9:36 AM
• And goodluck to the two of you in the 3rd place game!
  King of the North at Dec 26, 2023 9:05 AM
• Hey thanks Lake!
  Didn't want to say anything until it was official.
  Gonna be a challenge for me next week, already lost to Love twice this year!
  King of the North at Dec 26, 2023 9:05 AM
• And now official congrats to Spare Parts and Love Wins! Break a leg in the finals next week.
  Lake Gage Lornes at Dec 26, 2023 7:58 AM
• yes we did
  You but better 4 at Dec 24, 2023 10:39 PM
• Damn YBB4, we stank up the joint.
  Lake Gage Lornes at Dec 24, 2023 8:33 PM
• Congrats to love... it's going to be a good showdown
  You but better 4 at Dec 24, 2023 8:32 PM
• It was going to be a stretch for me, anyway, but my dudes picked a particularly bad week to forget how to play football.
  
  Well, you guys are saved for one more year from becoming the Bonnie Raitt Appreciation Society.
  Lake Gage Lornes at Dec 24, 2023 3:07 PM
• lol what a performance
  Love is Patient at Dec 24, 2023 2:57 PM