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How many teams make the playoffs? Four? So a team that could finish 2,000 points less than the team in first win the league because they have the best last week in the season? What if a team that finishes in first has some of his/her aces rested that last two weeks of the year? This is a dynasty league. I don't believe it is right to fundamentally change the rules on what team is the champion. This past season was anomaly. But I do believe if one team dominates the whole season, but loses
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The Whirling Darvishes's trade block has been updated!
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Just curious...why are you against a playoff format?
LIMA.SANDLOT on
October 17, 2018 10:11 PM
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Good point cubby bear. This will be my first fangraph points league. I’ve only played in H2H fangraphs. Does the playoff require a switch to this other format or can you even do it within the fangraph points rules that this league is established in?
PTBNL on
October 17, 2018 10:05 PM
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I think we should have a full vote and a 2/3 vote affirmative to make such a huge fundamental change to our rules.
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I'm against a playoff.
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Welcome new SP owner! Glad to have you on board. Ok, we've had no one come out against playoffs, so I'm making the change. Regarding a money league... I'm on the fence. If the rest of the teams are in, I'm in, but if anyone is uncomfortable with going to a $50 cost I say we just go one with the free tier.
Maine Monarchs on
October 17, 2018 11:52 AM
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Hey guys I just took over for Seattle. Looking st your convo I’d be for playoff and a money league. Just throwing in my 2 cents! Makes it more fun especially if 1st place is way ahead. Feels like you still have a shot then.
PTBNL on
October 16, 2018 11:23 PM
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Lets figure out whether we are adding playoffs first so as not to muddy the waters. Is anyone against playoffs?
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I’m open to a playoff league and prize money if we all agree.
LIMA.SANDLOT on
October 16, 2018 3:14 PM
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Makes no difference to me (playoffs or no playoffs). I'll be back either way. I also wouldn't mind one way or another if it was a payout league although I wouldn't want to chase anyone away if we all didn't agree. Can't get much easier than that.
Long Gone on
October 16, 2018 2:16 PM
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Yes, I would be into playoffs.
Ding Dongs on
October 16, 2018 12:37 PM
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A couple of things. 1) Arbitration has started, so get on that. 2) I heard from Darvishes by email that he's out for next season, so I've marked our three non-returning teams as abandoned. If anybody knows someone they think may want to give ottoneu a try, they can pick them up from the abandoned teams page. 3) Is anyone else interested in changing to a playoff league for next season? I feel like it would have kept everyone more engaged this past year.
Maine Monarchs on
October 16, 2018 10:48 AM
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Cubby Bears's trade block has been updated!
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cool, I appreciate that. I'd love to play for real again next season.
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Well, I consider this league to be Geoffrey's since he started it, so you've got an in, but even if you didn't I'd be happy to have you come back myself. We all have stuff come up sometimes that is more important than fantasy baseball.
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I'd like to come back next year, even though I totally shat the bed this year. So if you'll have me I'm here
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I'll be back
Ding Dongs on
October 9, 2018 12:47 PM
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I think we are still waiting on HPP, Jeurys, Headley, Vinegar Strokes, Darvishes and Horrorshow. Arbitration starts next week and it would be great to get a thumbs up from you all before hand....
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That's interesting. I'm actually a (non-sports) co-founder myself and our per-user costs are WAY lower, but the co-founders are both ourselves developers with a lot of experience building to scale, and we don't have the data licensing issues. Anyway, I sympathize with Niv but worry this will backfire as a revenue generation strategy. What SP said is what I'm expecting a lot of Ottoneu "power users" to be thinking. I just hope that doesn't cascade to entire leagues folding with les
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Cubby Bears's trade block has been updated!
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Thanks for the congrats, and I’ll be back. In regards to the price increase, I would be willing to bet Niv was losing money at $10. I owned a similar site for fantasy football, and the cost for servers, programmers, live data....etc cost us like $50 per user. I think that we had about 1/5 the customer base so our economies of scale didn't stretch as far. But He can empathize with Niv and the price. increase.
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Come on! Who am I going to battle it out for second place with next season??? Seriously though, that sucks, but I get it. I think this price increase was not really thought through by Niv and a lot of people are going to have to contract. I wish you'd stay, but I can't really blame you for not wanting to double your cost in leagues where you can't recoup anything. How about the rest of the league. Everyone seems awfully quiet.
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I will not be back next year, cutting back a little bit and moving some leagues to prize leagues in light of the price change.
PTBNL on
October 3, 2018 11:20 PM
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I'll take you up on that. If you can find someone to take your team, please have them message me on Slack.
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Happy to help recruit a replacement if needed
Pale Hose on
October 3, 2018 9:38 AM
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I really need to cut down on my ottoneu leagues with this pricing change so unfortunately I will not be back next year.
Pale Hose on
October 3, 2018 9:38 AM
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I’ll be back for sure.
LIMA.SANDLOT on
October 2, 2018 1:12 PM
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I plan to be back.
Long Gone on
October 2, 2018 1:09 PM
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And that's a wrap. In the only race that truly mattered, my late surge gives me second place as Kenley Jansen blows up and sinks the Pilots :) With that out of the way, let's get an early tally on who plans to re-up for next year. ICYMI, the price is going up and I want to see how that affects everyone's plans to dethrone Cubby in 2019.
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Congrats Cubby for an outstanding year...on to next year for the rest of us.
Long Gone on
October 1, 2018 9:38 AM
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Congrats CubbyI Awesome year and I fear one of many future championships with the way your team is built.
LIMA.SANDLOT on
October 1, 2018 8:12 AM
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Congrats Cubby. With 3 days left, even if you don't make it past 19,447.8 point for a new record, you definitely are going to surpass my #2 mark from last year. You've had a hell of a season.
Maine Monarchs on
September 27, 2018 9:52 PM
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Um yeah...would keep the interest up I think.
LIMA.SANDLOT on
September 13, 2018 9:47 PM
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Is anyone else kind of wishing we had turned this into a playoff league?
Maine Monarchs on
September 13, 2018 8:54 PM
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Who wants Josh Donaldson before the deadline?
Pale Hose on
August 31, 2018 3:41 PM
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Long Gone's trade block has been updated!
Long Gone on
August 17, 2018 8:34 AM
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So, it looks like I'm pacing about 1,300 points behind Cubby, all things considered. Anybody want to offer me a trade package that will make that up before the end of the season? :)
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Cubby Bears's trade block has been updated!
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No worries, that sounds a lot more important than fantasy baseball. Sorry for jumping to the conclusion that your team was abandoned.
Pale Hose on
August 7, 2018 4:37 PM
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Sorry about your health. Hopefully you are feeling better!
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look im sorry i haven't been active. i had some health issues come up in march and then some other stuff over the past couple months baseball kind of had to take a back burner. i do still want to play though.
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What are we doing about the dead teams?
Pale Hose on
August 6, 2018 8:32 AM
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I agree.
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Whirling Darvishes is pretty clearly not managing his team with no activity since May. Might be good to move on that before the trade deadline hits?
Pale Hose on
August 2, 2018 7:45 PM
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Seattle Pilots's trade block has been updated!
PTBNL on
August 1, 2018 5:17 PM
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Yeah she's been real busy lately but I'm pretty sure she's keeping an eye on things and intends to keep going. I've definitely had leagues where I was far enough out of the race that I just kept track of player movement over email and probably looked dormant. I'm happy to leave them be.
Ding Dongs on
August 1, 2018 4:04 PM
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I guess we're talking about Darvishes and Vinegar Strokes? Typically the first thing is to reach out to them both. Horrorshow knows VS, so maybe he has some insight into what's up there?
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Make that two teams.
PTBNL on
August 1, 2018 11:28 AM
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Um, just noticed one of our teams hasn't had any activity since May...just curious how you guys have handled this in the past, or if you generally just wait for the renewal date.
PTBNL on
August 1, 2018 11:27 AM
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