League Message Board
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The best practices article is here:
https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/ottoneu-league-best-practices/
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Chad’s best practices article includes this: “Letting teams sit illegal for days on end isn’t good for the league. I would ask managers to target being legal within 24 hours, but also accept a clear path to being legal (e.g., I win an auction that puts me $5 over the cap, but another ongoing auction will clear a $10 cap penalty for me when it ends, I can wait out that auction).”
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Do we have a rule or policy regarding how long teams have to 'get legal' after picking up a player and going over $400 and/or their max number of roster spots?
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There isn't even any baseball yet!
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Was expecting a little more hype out of this league, to be honest.
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Baddoo for Greene is a fun one too!
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Had to beat the 6pm ‘deadline’ for business to open back up, just had to.
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😁
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🤦🏻♂️
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ok, auction is marked complete. you can now make cuts, pick up FA, make trades, etc.
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My team is complete in every sense of the word.
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All set here, looks good
Pete's Team on
February 27, 2022 3:14 PM
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same. looks accurate
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My roster looks good.
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My roster looks accurate. Thank you for running the auction, Chad.
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Yes, I need to mark the draft complete before the season starts and we can make trades/start free agent auctions, but want to make sure everyone has had time to check their roster imports. Assuming we don't find any issues I'll do that late tonight.
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My team is good. I think we need to end the auction that is still "In Progress" on here though.
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Accurate import for House of David. Thanks for bringing everyone over!
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Turns out I can import on mobile so teams should be set. Please check your players, especially minor leaguers and less established guys to make sure the import is accurate
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Good auction all! I'll get players uploaded to Ottoneu later today I think (tomorrow at the latest) and then we'll give everyone a day to confirm rosters are accurate. After that we'll mark the auction complete and we'll be open for trading, in season auctions, etc
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If anyone is interested in more 4x4 action, we have 4 spots open in an established league. We plan to do a dispersal draft of the players on the four available teams. Some gems available include: $23 Corbin Burnes, $22 Brandon Woodruff, $9 Freddy Peralta, $4 Tyler O'Neill and $3 Bobby Witt Jr. Please let me know if you are interested. https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/645/home
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hey all - I am on a flight tomorrow so might be slow to engage in anything auction related. if you need me, you can message me via the Ottoneu messaging, hit me up on twitter, or whatever.
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ok, everyone now has a second nomination. use it wisely
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Suzuki is not in the Ottoneu player pool, so he is not eligible. He'll get added to the player pool once he signs.
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What’s the official ruling on Seiya Suzuki? We going to let him go to auction now while people have money or do we have to wait until he officially signs with an MLB team?
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as of right now, we have a few auctions started recently but none set to end in the next 6 hours. I am going to let things run as is for like 3-4 more hours, and then add the second nomination per team, just to keep things staggered a bit.
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Same
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100% on board!
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things seem to be running smoothly. unless anyone has objections, i am going to suggest we add a second nomination per team tomorrow. that will speed things up a bit. if anyone does have objections, let me know. happy to keep slowing playing this if people prefer!
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Ok, I am starting the slow auction now! stop in to nominate and bid!
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Sure. I'll send another email shortly. It'll be easier to share that way.
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I could use a short primer on the slow auction process. I've slow snake drafts, but not auctions.
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30 minutes! See y'all soon
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Awesome, everyone's in couch managers! Remember the three hours tonight are here at Ottoneu!
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Reminder that we're less than 24 hours from the draft! Also please sign up for the slow draft. We'll be here (scroll up and you can see an "Auction Draft" link near the top of this page) fit three hours tomorrow but my hope is I'll get all the players loaded into Couch Managers that night so we can start the slow draft portion Monday!
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Three other things: 1) everyone needs to join our Couch Managers slow auction (https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=73 password: keeporku - they only allow 8 characters so no T). Please try to make your team name there match your name here. We'll use this AFTER Sunday - Sunday evening we'll draft on Ottoneu. 2) if anyone can't make Sunday please let me know ASAP. 3) if you have any questions about Ottoneu or the league, ask now.
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Just a reminder we're set for 3 hours of drafting Sunday at 7 pm ET. We'll have a slow auction after that to fill out the rest of rosters.
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I don't think moving the date/time is going to be easy - it's pretty hard getting 12 people lined up, which is why we put the date/time in the call for entries. If anyone can't make it, let me know and we can try to find someone to proxy for you. Keep in mind, we are only doing 3 hours, after which we will shift to a slow auction to fill out rosters.
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Oof, I didn’t realize the auction was during the Super Bowl. I’d rather move the date/time if that’s possible, but I can still make it regardless.
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Couple questions:
I assume that people are aware that we’re scheduled to draft during the Super Bowl. I’m fine with it, just want to make sure that it’s known.
And this league is planning on running for multiple seasons, right? Would change auction strategies if people were only trying to win in 2022 and then moving on.
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Thanks for the explanation, guys!
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The minimum is a good call out. I'd make sure to notice what stats count and which don't (RBI, SB, Saves, etc). I'll let others weigh in with more thoughts
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First time 4x4 player here, and it looks like I'm not alone.
Seasoned players: is there anything you'd like new players to know to keep the league competitive and fun?
I'll note for the record that I'm aware of and glad to see the 1,250 IP minimum in the rules for 4x4.
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League 1's 2021 final standings are here as an example:
https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/1/standings?date=2021-10-03
Roto category rank scoring is in effect: there are 12 teams, so the team that leads the league in HR would get 12 points in the HR category, the second best HR hitting team would get 11, and so on.
A team that swept the categories would get 12 points x 8 categories = 96 points.
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Roto leagues are scored based on rankings in each stat. So whoever has the most HR will get 12 points for HR. Whoever has second most will get 11 for HR, etc down to whoever has the fewest HR and gets 1 point for HR. Same ya true for each stat (R HR OBP SLG ERA WHIP K HR/9).
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Hi! Looking forward to playing in this league. I'm not finding much in the rules or forums about how the scoring works. Like, I know the categories, but how do we actually score points? I've only played FGPts and the roto format is new to me. Thanks!
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Welcome everyone! Excited to get started. Draft is in 13 days so start your prep! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!
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