• Not a criticism. These kinds of cuts keep things exciting !

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on April 3, 2025 2:30 PM

• Tried to trade Trea Turner, but no takers at 44$ and possibly injured (back), so since he was blocking 44$ (22$), decided to let go the guillotine

  AKA Big Papi on April 3, 2025 2:22 PM

• Ladies and gentlemen, looks like we have our first Papi cut of the season. It's a juicy one.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on April 3, 2025 1:12 PM

• Sorry fellow owners, completely forgot to draft on CM. Wouldn't of made a big difference, had 4 spots and 14$, wish you all a good season and thanks Commish for the draft and all the work to come

  AKA Big Papi on February 18, 2025 11:08 AM

• The 2025 P.R.E.A.M. Baseball League season has officially begun. Good luck everyone!

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 15, 2025 9:26 AM

• My Otto team looks correct, so I am good to go....

  McGlovin on February 13, 2025 7:56 AM

• Finished! Thanks everyone. I'll give teams 24 hours to check that there were no mistakes in the import process and then I'll start the season, at which point you can cut players, make trade offers, and start auctions. Some buyer's remorse on my end, hopefully not too much on yours.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 12, 2025 5:57 PM

• Looks like we are almost done. If the remaining teams (FB Analyst, Stringer Bello) would like to speed up the endgame then you can click "Pass" on open auctions you aren't interested in. If I see that everyone who can place a bid has passed then I will end the auction early, which will give the nominating team their nomination back. If we do this then we should be able to finish today. But it is also no problem to let things finish slowly. Up to y'all.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 12, 2025 9:05 AM

• With four teams done I've uploaded the first batch of results into Ottoneu. Please let me know if you see any mistakes.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 11, 2025 8:19 AM

• With the top FAs off the board I am increasing the number of noms to 3 per team.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 9, 2025 8:59 AM

• Ok, firing up the auction now. Play ball!

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 8, 2025 9:50 AM

• Roster entered in CM is fine

  AKA Big Papi on February 7, 2025 1:08 PM

• Again please make sure to check your keepers. I found one error so far - Spencer Jones TBR (!) was imported instead of Spencer Jones NYY - but I didn't check rosters exhaustively.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 7, 2025 8:34 AM

• Ok no objections so far so I will plan on starting tomorrow. Review: we start with 2 noms each and increase to 3 after a day or so (after expensive players are off the table). The timer starts at 12 hours and resets to 8 when a team is outbid. No overnight timeouts, so set max bids. Once a player is won the nominating team gets a new nom. No sitting on noms; use your available nominations within 24 hours or you will be marked as done. Please let me know here or in DMs if you have any questions.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 7, 2025 8:21 AM

• Just checked my team and couch managers matches Otto. I am also good starting this Saturday.

  McGlovin on February 7, 2025 8:15 AM

• Rosters have been imported into Couch Managers. Please check your team carefully - there are usually a few mistakes in the import process. I would love to start up the auction on Saturday morning, some time around 9:00a ET - any objections?

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 6, 2025 4:26 PM

• All good Papi

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 6, 2025 1:07 PM

• Joined CM, sorry if I was late

  AKA Big Papi on February 6, 2025 1:03 PM

• Waiting on three teams to join the auction still. I am hoping to get started this weekend so please join ASAP: https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=1022

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 6, 2025 9:29 AM

• Thanks all. I've created the auction here: https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=1022. Please join by clicking one of the empty "Join" slots (upper left). The password is PREAM (all caps). After everyone joins I will import rosters and then we will be set to go.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 4, 2025 5:39 AM

• Anytime you want to start it, I will be ready

  AKA Big Papi on February 2, 2025 2:58 PM

• I’m good to start the auction tonight, no need to wait…

  Beefy’s Bashers on February 2, 2025 11:26 AM

• We are now full! Welcome to Big Papi, who I assume needs no introduction. We have done the auction pretty early on in past seasons. I would like to start soon, perhaps as early as next weekend. I will start setting it up in Couch Managers. Since it will be a slow auction (unless people voice strong preferences for live) it is not too important to try to navigate busy schedules, but please do let me know as soon as possible if you will be without Internet access for any stretch in February.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 2, 2025 9:36 AM

• I've done both. I prefer slow auction. It does seem to drag out sometimes. But with my schedule it is easier. We're not tied down to a specific time, more time to consider everything. Trying to get 12 teams to agree on a specific time would be difficult.

  Benchwarmers on February 1, 2025 7:02 AM

• Waiting on two other teams to renew as well. I will follow up with them. As soon as everyone has renewed we'll talk auction. We have slow drafted every year - I am inclined to continue to do so but we could certainly discuss changing to a live auction. If anyone has strong preferences then please let them be known! (I prefer live but they are a pain to schedule.)

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 1, 2025 12:15 AM

• I added the co-manager for you. Either of you should be able to renew now.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 1, 2025 12:06 AM

• I think there's a 10 day period after deadline where loopholes can still get closed

  Yogi Berenstein Bears 🧸 on January 31, 2025 11:29 PM

• For a free league, I love how competitive it is.. even if it means I'm constantly frustrated by it 😩 But this year I gotta cut back.. I'm overextending myself a bit, and this league is on the border! But I found a friend who will co-own. Trying to attach him to the team. Anyone know HOW? Commish?

  Yogi Berenstein Bears 🧸 on January 31, 2025 10:27 PM

• It is not entirely clear from the Arbitration tab interface but to add dollars you need to click the drop-down that says "Overview" and select the team you want to arb. Then repeat x10.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on November 14, 2024 3:05 PM

• Thanks for the reminder Yogi - arbitration should be done by the end of today. Stringer, read section c.i. here: https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/rules#offseason . Then go to the Arbitration tab. The idea is to add dollars to the players you feel are the most underpriced. Not necessarily the most exciting part of the season, but important for long-term league health.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on November 14, 2024 3:01 PM

• What is arbitration, what do I need to do, and how?

  StringerBello'sArms on November 14, 2024 2:32 PM

• I've been recruiting Arb proxies all day if you guys need to get those last Arbitration done

  Yogi Berenstein Bears 🧸 on November 14, 2024 11:17 AM

• For teams who got in on the last-minute feeding frenzy, please remember that your team must be legal by the end of the season. Please make your cuts by 11:59 Eastern time tonight. Thanks!

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on September 30, 2024 1:24 PM

• Congrats also to Uncle Tom's Glavine, who eked into the playoffs by 17 points (!) and then managed a podium finish. Good stuff.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on September 30, 2024 12:21 PM

• Yeesh, 10 HRA in the last 20 IP. No way to recover from that. Congrats on the title Benchwarmers! I hope everyone will be able to return next season but if you know you will not be then please let me know as soon as possible so that I can find replacement managers. Thanks, and enjoy the real-baseball playoffs. Go Twins! Oh wait...

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on September 29, 2024 9:31 AM

• Teams who are over the roster limit, please make your cuts. Everyone must have a legal roster going into the end of the season. Thanks!

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on September 20, 2024 1:53 PM

• That was a wild finish to the playoffs. Short of any adjustments. Only 17pts separated 6th from 7th.
  3pts between 4th and 5th place. And the crazy finish by Baffles Bombers at the end to go from 7th to 3rd.

  Benchwarmers on September 1, 2024 10:42 PM

• Anybody else want to hear more about that deadline trade?

  Yogi Berenstein Bears 🧸 on September 1, 2024 10:42 AM

• Tight race for those last playoff spots this week! Good luck everyone.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on August 26, 2024 8:05 PM

• Gerrit Cole is on the block

  RBI Kings on March 11, 2024 3:19 PM

• Trades and FA auctions are now enabled. Let the season begin! Good luck everyone

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 19, 2024 12:56 PM

• Looks like you gave me a Daniel Espinoza instead of a Daniel Espino. Lol

  Shohei and the Fightin' Decoys on February 17, 2024 9:25 PM

• Actually it was pretty easy to find the 4 problematic rows. I manually added the players but please still double check your rosters.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 17, 2024 8:31 PM

• I ended the two remaining auctions early since no one could outbid and I imported results to Ottoneu. The import showed that 4 rows were not correctly read but I have no idea which ones so *please check your rosters carefully*. If you spot any issues please let me know before noon Eastern on Monday. I will begin the season then (and at that point trades and FA auctions will become possible). Thanks everyone!

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 17, 2024 8:20 PM

• Looks like we should be able to wrap this up tomorrow. Bashers and Kings, please use your noms tonight or I will mark you as finished. Can't sit on noms at the end of an auction.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 16, 2024 6:55 PM

• Some teams seem pretty close to done already - please let me know if you would like to reserve any empty spots (you do not need to have 40 players as long as you reserve $1 per empty spot)

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 15, 2024 1:48 PM

• I think the high dollar guys are all off the board so I'll increase the number of nominations to three. Everyone should have an additional nom in a minute or two.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 13, 2024 1:28 PM

• And we're off. Good luck everyone!

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 12, 2024 12:12 PM

• RBI kings has not joined. I tried messaging them but no response. We will start without them but I have to manually remove their players so we will be a bit late to start. Still hope to get going in the next couple of hours or so.

  The Clongowes Cricket Club 🏏 on February 12, 2024 11:23 AM

• Are we still waiting for someone to join the CM draft? Looks like only 11 spots are filled.

  Shohei and the Fightin' Decoys on February 12, 2024 10:24 AM

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