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Hello folks, I just took over the open team in your league. My name is Jeff and I'll be managing the Eastside Hanger Bangers. I'm located in Detroit, MI; a fan of the Detroit Tigers; and a general baseball geek. I'm looking forward to playing with you all this season and getting to know everyone a bit better. I've looked through the message board and it looks like a discord was created. If someone could post an invite link I'd appreciate it. None of the links I've found have worked.
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Hey mate, I’m looking forward to the chance to party with Marty. Welcome
Mad SD Dogs on
December 29, 2021 9:33 PM
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Hey league, please welcome Marty aka Joe Foy's Disciples, he just took over for Dynasty Kings. Marty, here's the link to our Discord, let us know if you have any questions. Draft is set for January 29th. https://discord.gg/Q3ASb6tx
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Hey everyone, Dynasty Kings has dropped out of the league. We are considering redoing the draft in January, please vote or give us your feedback on the #league-discussion channel on discord: https://discord.com/channels/902279621238726697/902292462725390406/917965279294791700
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https://discord.gg/5g7fKnVq
New discord link
Mad SD Dogs on
November 8, 2021 9:10 PM
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Hi Matt, I promise not to make 'Florida Man' jokes at your expense. Welcome
Mad SD Dogs on
November 8, 2021 9:09 PM
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Discord link expired :-)
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Glad to be here guys. Matt, 32, Tampa. Director of Operations at a Telecom company. Ready for Saturday!
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Last call!
Ben, are you with us?
We've been trying to get in touch to make sure you're on for the draft and for our 2022 season :D
If you are, give us a shout by 5 pm CST.
(Trying it one last time, just in case our emails are going to his spam folder or something like that)
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Ok everyone, we have our own server on Discord. I've sent out invitations through Mike's Discord server, but for anyone who didn't see it or wasn't there yet, here is the link: https://discord.gg/3cKXStB5. So far we've got a general channel, a league discussion channel, a draft discussion channel and a league announcements channel. See you all there!
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I agree with Pythagorean, it's better to get a new Server for the League.
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Yep, that's it. Are you seeing the Ottoneu World Order channel?
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I clicked on the discord link and it took me to Sparkletime Fantastic. Am I in the right place?
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I have access now, just sent a hello message.
Put it this way, this time next year Mike may decide Ottoneu isn’t for him, or just not have time for it, and then we have to make a new Discord server for the league and lose all the history because he can’t just pass admin onto someone else as he uses the server for other things.
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Hey Matt, not against that idea at all, like I said, I'm a layman, so I'll defer to you guys on this issue. But right now we've got 10 of us on Mike's server already, so let's try to use that for a bit, and hopefully we can figure out why you don't have access (he says he's assigned everyone who joined Ottoneu roles). Then if need be we'll set up our own down the road a bit (or sooner of course, if you can't join).
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Also, I’ve joined but have no access to view anything
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Happy to join, but it would be better to make a purpose made server for the league seeing as its super easy and free, that’s my 2c
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Ok everyone, please click on the link Mike posted (again: https://discord.gg/FGrRQNep) to go to our Discord channel, where we can have more real-time conversations about our league, MLB, rules/best practices, the draft, trades, questions, and talk a little trash (but keep it classy, of course). See you there!
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Click this and things should happen: https://discord.gg/FGrRQNep
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Remembering that we have this spreadsheet with everyone's contact and team info, it might come in handy for the invites? Also, feel free to edit it and keep it updated. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HhMH2qOwZ_7Tiqzu5cg2fYYayyEH1ah6995JyTqNuXE/edit?usp=sharing
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Alright, so let's go with Discord. But becacuse I pretty much live in the stone age of skype+email and know nothing about Discord servers, I'll let you guys (Mike, Nick & Sam) sort out whether we should use one of your servers or start a new one, if the paid server boosts are nice to have, whatever other options/channels we should set up... then if you need any help deciding, reach out to me or our co-commissioner Ben (Dorning Gray Sox). Cool?
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As stated, I have an existing server that would be easy enough to use. Right now it's being used mostly to keep in touch with some former coworkers and also for a fantasy football league that I am the commissioner of, but it would be easy enough to segregate this group into it's own space. Let me know if that's something we'd like to go for, as I did some tinkering and I think i have at least a single text channel set up and an accompanying role. I'll defer to Icaro on the final say
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Big yes for Discord. I’m pretty sure I have some paid server boosts or whatever left over in my account to help out with it. I manage the server for the dynasty league I’m in with Nick and Matt and it’s super simple. We have channels for general discussion, league-specific discussion, as well as a commish-only channel to segregate out key announcements for the league. And a channel for beer too.
Mad SD Dogs on
October 20, 2021 4:37 PM
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Discord or Group.me are pretty good.
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I’m keen for a discord server. We use one for another dynasty league and it’s great. Setting up a new server is trivial as well, plus it makes it super easy if we want to get onto a group voice/video chat for the draft.
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I'm up for anything that isn't the league message board. I have a Discord server of my own and could probably set up some channels and roles for the task if people wanted to go that route.
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I'm guessing everything else won't really matter until the season kicks off, and we have until then to decide how lenient or strict we want to be. On that note, what should we do about league comms? I've seen that some of you joined the Ottoneu slack, but remember that not everyone wanted to....someone talked about setting up a discord, do we still want do that? (sorry I forgot right now who wanted what) (2/2)
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Thanks for posting that Sam, I'd only read some conversation about it on Slack but hadn't actually read the article. I agree with pretty much everything on there, the only caveat I'd make is that since we're all rookies in this format we can be a little lenient on having a full lineup or the roster legal at all times (also helps we're not H2H, where not having a lineup filled out can really mess with balance). But we should definitely enforce nominations at the draft. (1/2)
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Icaro, I don't know if you saw this but I came across it today and it's a good read: https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/ottoneu-league-best-practices/
Mad SD Dogs on
October 20, 2021 7:03 AM
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Yeah welcome Eric, we now have all four US time zones represented, which is the way it should be in our league!
I'm in São Paulo, Brazil, but I lived for many years in Long Island, NY, which is my excuse for also being a long-suffering Mets fan. Those frustrations aside, I'm really enjoying this postseason so far.
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Hello Eric, welcome to the league. My name is Christian. I'm the guy from Berlin, Germany, and I'm a Mets fan. But let's rather not talk about it. Have a nice season.
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The 13th is good for me.
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14th fine for me
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Cancel that, I’m an idiot. 14th works I’m pretty sure
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14th doesn’t work for me - that’s my weekend on at work, but the week after works for me
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Hello Eric, welcome. I believe everyone here is new to the Ottoneu format, so it’ll be a fun learning experience for everyone! I’m in Denver, CO, and a Rockies fan.
Durham Bulls on
October 16, 2021 8:35 PM
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Welcome Eric - most of us did intros via email a little while back but for your benefit I’m Sam from Sydney Australia. I’m a Red Sox fan so im surprised at how far we have gotten this postseason, kind of like how I’m surprised at how my fantasy teams perform too
Mad SD Dogs on
October 16, 2021 8:24 PM
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Hey League! My name is Eric. I grew up in Iowa. Moved to Boston and now live in Los Angeles. This post season is going to be fun.
I’ve been playing fantasy for 5 years or so. I just won 2 of my leagues this year and wanted to find a league that was a bit more challenging and less confined to just 6 months.
I look forward to learning this format and picking your brains.
I probably value players differently than some and am always interested in trades.
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Of course, that's what the asterisk was all about! Ok, so November 13th rest of the world/November 14th Australia, please confirm everyone!
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If it’s 3pm East Coast/9PM Berlin on the 14th it’ll be 7am on the 15th here.
Mad SD Dogs on
October 16, 2021 7:38 PM
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I was thinking of starting early AM like we said before - 7 AM Australia / 3 PM East Coast US / 9 PM Berlin. I think this way everyone would be on the same date, right? (That's what the World Clock converter says at least lol)
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14th is fine with me, even if it’s the 13th for me because of Sam :P
Durham Bulls on
October 16, 2021 7:35 PM
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14th is fine for me provided the time window falls on Sunday Australian time. If it’s the 14th anywhere else it’ll be a Monday for us and I’ll be unavailable due to work. Normally wouldn’t be an issue anyway for me but it’s my second week in a new job haha
Mad SD Dogs on
October 16, 2021 7:28 PM
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Hey everyone, we've got our 12th member, Just Outside, who joined us via Community forum. We are now full and can try to set our first draft date. I agree with Matt, it's best to just set a date and try to get a few rounds in, once we've done that we can decide what to do next. I also get the concern about FAs and such, but the advantage of the auction draft is that everyone can decide to take the risk and place a $XX bid on Semien (for example). So, does November 14th work for everyone?
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I think we should just pick a date once we get our 12th member where everyone is available and draft away. No point in trying to complicate it and cater for every minor concern when it’s hard enough to get 12 people across international time zones to line up availability
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My thoughts on draft: I’m fine with early next year. A weekend is probably best because with people across the globe, finding a time that works with every bodies work schedule during the week will probably be tricky.
Durham Bulls on
October 15, 2021 7:28 PM
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Yeah, we'll do our best to make it fair (and doable) for everyone. On another note, we still haven't heard back from Ron, so I'm thinking of starting an active search for our 12th man. Does anyone here know of someone or should we go to the managers wanted board?
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I’m not worried too much about projections as much as I’m worried about drafting guys while they’re free agents. I’d hate for another kimbrel situation. On the other hand, we could do the big names first and auction FA guys later once they’ve signed too. I agree with Nav’s reasoning in your post too, and think we should sim sooner rather than later. All I ask is lots of advance notice so I can arrange to have the kids taken care of etc.
Mad SD Dogs on
October 14, 2021 11:20 PM
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So any thoughts on a draft (start) date? Sam, Nick, everyone, please chime in.
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Usually they're out right after the WS. Last year zips was out by Nov 10, Steamer was out by Nov 1. Ottoneu founder Niv really recommended "giving ourselves a LOT of time over having full information" (https://community.ottoneu.com/t/best-draft-dates-tools/10189/6). But let's hear what we all have to say about that.
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