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What’s up guys! I just claimed the Ghosts of Rube Waddell! I’m excited to be here. Very active ottoneu member looking to make a splash.
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Welcome Icaro!
Otto Two on
January 18, 2022 3:19 PM
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Hey everyone, my name is Icaro and I just took over Money Ballers. Thanks for having me, I'm glad to be on board. This league actually has the perfect settings in my opinion: H2H, 2 weekly matchups, 2-week playoffs, arbitration... I don't think there are many out there that combine all of these things, so maybe these could be selling points. Any way, can't wait to get more people in here so we can start cooking up some trades!
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Teams available; Teams That Did Not Allocate;
Ghosts of Rube Waddell
B's Big Ballin' Benders
Money Ballers
KCKings
Cubs
Orlando Solar Bears
Smash
Martes on
January 4, 2022 10:22 AM
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Yes! Which teams are available now?
Otto Two on
December 28, 2021 5:39 PM
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I am now the commish of the league. Could you guys invite more manager so we can #savethisleague ?!?!
Martes on
December 28, 2021 11:43 AM
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nivshah Founder
December 17
Have the potential new commissioner email help@ottoneu.com with their team name and user name and I’ll manually make them commissioner.
Otto Two on
December 17, 2021 12:00 PM
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The other 7 teams didn't participate in arbitration.
Otto Two on
December 15, 2021 8:19 PM
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I think if no one objects, we can have Niv overthrow the missing commish and put you in charge. I think we need to immediately start recruiting new owners. Looks like Lindor, Ohio2, and Animales are in. Have we heard from anyone else?
Otto Two on
December 15, 2021 8:16 PM
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I guess I could do it, I already paid, but it is not up to me, is it?
Martes on
December 15, 2021 5:30 PM
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Seems safe to safe to say the existing commish is not coming back. Anybody want to take over as the commissioner and try to salvage the league? Or are we done here?
Otto Two on
December 15, 2021 4:28 PM
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Has anyone heard from the commish at all? I've reached out a couple of times and not received a reply.
Otto Two on
November 23, 2021 9:34 AM
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Sounds good to me!
Martes on
October 29, 2021 9:04 PM
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I say we renew at $25 and whoever does arbitration stays and the rest of the teams are offered to expansion managers on a first-come, first-served basis. All teams have some gems and I think some expansion managers might enjoy the challenge of an existing team. We can go to $50 next year if it works out…
Thoughts?
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Hey I am in for next season. I know I missed half of this one and that's my fault for taking on too much work for me to handle. I would definitely like to do arbitration and be a part of next season
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IN. Let's contact the commish and ask him to make someone else the commish and recruit new managers asap. First step is to salvage the league.
Otto Two on
October 27, 2021 7:26 PM
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Im with you @Lindor Truffles... maybe we can rescue half the managers and start a new league. We are halfway there. I know Otto Two is in, and animales and cubs and I guess Ghost, (?) Maybe do the arbitration process so we know we can count on you
Martes on
October 27, 2021 7:20 PM
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In any case, I enjoyed this season, I'm interested in doing it again with this group and I'm happy to be a part of whatever. I'm going to start rambling, so I'll go back to work and do something productive instead.
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I guess I'm fine with either approach. This was my first year doing Ottoneu and I learned a ton, so starting over with new people isn't an unattractive idea, but I also feel like part of the fun is taking your team along for multiple years. Anyway, I'm in either way. One thing I learned this year is that maybe one of the things to do is up the league to the $50 level to require some more skin in the game.
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From what I get, the question is: are we going to continue this league by finding X new managers or are we going to quit this league?” Obviously I would like to continue this league as I have the best team (sure...); but IDK. Shit happens, and it is quite obvious we lost several managers. Probably because UX sucks, I can see a lot of managers discouraged. Maybe it takes a couple of draft to get 10-12 engaged managers.
Martes on
October 27, 2021 10:26 AM
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If you find replacement managers, they can do the arbitration. Doing any of the arb manually for a league missing 8 managers is a fool’s errand. So the question isn’t “how to do arb while down X managers?”, it’s “are we going to continue this league by finding X new managers or are we going to quit this league?”
Martes on
October 27, 2021 10:23 AM
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The first thing to do is to decide if you want to continue in the league. That means choosing between adding replacement managers or just shutting the league down and starting over. If you are going to find replacement managers, start immediately by posting in the Managers Wanted 1 forum and reaching out to people on the Available Owners list. @walt526 is right though, it will be a big lift to add 8 people to a league, and probably easier to start from scratch.
Martes on
October 27, 2021 10:23 AM
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It would be kind of annoying to do it for 8 guys and there’s a chance for data entry error, so you have to have someone check your work. But that might be a possibility if you decide to continue but don’t fill out the league before November 15th.
Martes on
October 27, 2021 10:22 AM
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But to answer your question, although it’s kind of a major pain in the butt, you can do arbitration “manually” after arbitration ends. That is, you assign allocations via a Google sheet (which you thoroughly check to make sure it conforms with the rules) and have the commissioner enter them in as manual salary adjustments. I’ve only ever done that for one person, though.
Martes on
October 27, 2021 10:22 AM
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So I posted a question about what to do in arbitration if 8 managers are MIA. I got a couple of responses. Check it out: I would consider starting a new league as it’s going to be a lot easier to find 8 guys interested in joining a first year league than it is 8 guys inheriting what are probably some of the worst teams in the league.
Martes on
October 27, 2021 10:21 AM
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I already paid for next year, just in case I forget later; Dynasty extended
Martes on
October 16, 2021 5:20 PM
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Arbitration process video link https://youtu.be/p65cLqEj0TM
Otto Two on
October 14, 2021 3:25 PM
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Same here. I made a draft not focused on 2021 because I didn’t understand the game. Got really busy and decided to leave the team intact to come back and evaluate that first auction. Some wins, a lot of losses, but I like my chances next year and I will have time to play :-)
PS - Let’s see if we can go from zero to hero in 2022…
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I'm planning on it. I will be back,
Martes on
October 13, 2021 10:30 PM
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I'm planning on it. I'm excited to put what I've learned this year into practice.
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Several guys have not checked in here in a long time. Is anyone else planning on coming back next season?
Otto Two on
October 13, 2021 7:54 AM
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@Otto. Congratulations, you beat me fair and square, with that deal with Castellanos. I thought I could win with arms, but they tend to wreck at the wrong time. Nick Castellanos is a beast, GOAT. Congratulations, let's hope they make an app for next season. Good luck to all.
Martes on
October 4, 2021 9:57 AM
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Oof. Snell just grabbed his groin and walked off the field.
Otto Two on
September 12, 2021 4:28 PM
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Thanks @Otto. I'm just a little pissed off that DeGrom, Greinke and Flaherty decided to abandon the ship in the last weeks of the seaso. Alsom, Lindor stealing my Flexenbility... Let'em play. Let the kids play.
Martes on
September 10, 2021 8:13 AM
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Congrats to Elpollus for the regular season championship, and good luck to everyone in the playoffs.
Otto Two on
September 6, 2021 9:10 AM
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Looking to move Bieber. All reasonable offers considered.
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It's top 2 by division. If you look at the playoffs tab, it gives you the "if the season ended today" look.
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Do the divisions have any bearing on playoff berths? By that I mean is it the top 2 teams from each division, or just top 4 records overall?
Otto Two on
July 26, 2021 12:03 AM
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Thanks @Otto , I'm still trying to figure out some shit out; that explains why I had 45 players on the roster and had to drop Laureano and Schwarber. But the pitching has done well so far... Let's see how this goes.
Martes on
May 3, 2021 9:58 AM
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Congrats to EL Pollus, the last team that remains undefeated. Well done so far!
Otto Two on
May 3, 2021 9:36 AM
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lol I think I am in the second half of that schedule at this point already
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Lmao Otto two. Love it. Hopefully I can beat you this week!
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Have no fear, Otto Two is right on my annual baseball schedule. Kickin'Ass in April. Very competitive in May. "Temporary" dip to mediocrity by June. Mediocrity is the new normal by July, Looking back fondly at the good old days of mediocrity in August. Questioning why I even play this stupid game in September. By October, counting down the days until the next draft, because next year I'm going to win this thing.
Otto Two on
April 26, 2021 7:51 AM
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Anyone who needs to shed cap, hmu for trades!
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No worries. I was going to add them but I wasn't sure who nominated who.
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Yeah, I was responding to his message about adding guys if we didn't fill out our team. I've started an auction and big on a few already.
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You can bid on anyone you want, and you can start any other auctions you want.
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Rube - can I just post some guys on the message board? Or should I send them to you directly? Also, I assume I can't just bogart someone's auction player?
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For those guys that didn't fill there team out, tell me the guys you want and I'll add them to your team.
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