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So far only 7/12 managers have filled out the final poll. However, :) indicated here last night that nothing listed worked, but did not fill out said poll. Ideally, everyone else completes it to get a realistic view of where things actually sit, but a consensus doesn’t seem likely at the moment.
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I'm just asking, because catching up with everything due to a ton of traveling, but last I saw for Sunday, Feb 25, from 2-5pm 7/7 responded they could do the auction then. Did others outside of that indicate they weren't available?
BomboRivera on
February 9, 2024 2:08 PM
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I’m central time, so I set earliest at 11AM figuring that 9AM was doable should anyone be on the west coast.
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Ok - I see the times as 9am. Please keep in mind that I’m on the west coast and I would not do an auction at 6am. But this is academic because we already have people who said the times don’t work.
Cruzship on
February 9, 2024 12:53 PM
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I did see 11 AM to 2 PM, but what I’m proposing is 3 to 4 hours earlier than that. Unless I missed something, I don’t think we’ve ever proposed that in the past
BomboRivera on
February 9, 2024 12:44 PM
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Bombo - yes, those were included in the options that are in the survey Santo sent
Cruzship on
February 9, 2024 12:29 PM
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Hey all, in one last effort to find a time where everyone could join, I don’t think we’ve ever looked at having it early on a Saturday or Sunday morning. Something like 7–10 or 8–11, give or take. Just thought I’d toss it out there and see if it’s doable in general.
BomboRivera on
February 9, 2024 12:10 PM
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The slow draft is made exactly for this situation
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If none on the new poll work for :) that will make 32 time slots over 23 days polled without a league-wide consensus. Seems like slow draft or bust...
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thanks Santo. none of the extra days work for me unfortunately.
Bazzball! on
February 8, 2024 9:25 PM
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https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/dwn5MqJb
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In an effort to aid the commish, I've created one additional poll encompassing dates we haven't already tried. This opens up into the last week of Feb., some weekend afternoons, and past the Korea games. Personally, I'm ok missing out on two games if it helps the league find a time that works for everyone. Group W, I've accounted for no M/T/W on availability. If the shifting the time an hour one way or the other would work, please mark yellow (if needed), comment here, and we can try to shift.
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As someone who actively does both most seasons: a live auction is definitely more fun, but getting 12 people to line up schedules is difficult. I also travel a fair amount for work, usually working long (12+ hr) days in the process. Personally, I haven’t found a slow draft to be a burden in the process; or at least any more than setting my lineup daily. Slow or live, I don’t really care. FWIW, I am more than happy to answer any questions related to a slow draft to aid in the decision process.
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Very similar to in season auctions except there are several happening simultaneously. If each player has 2 nominations it could be up to 24 auctions happening at once. Couch manager notifies via text or email if you are up to nominate, you have won an auction, or if you have been outbid. User can set notification preferences.
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The alternative to holding a slow draft is March 18. That date had 10 positive responses, and every other date had fewer than that. As I said, I polled 13 dates. If anyone else wants to run another poll and try to pull a rabbit of the hat, please go ahead and do that.
Cruzship on
February 7, 2024 4:39 PM
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If we were to do a slow draft, I would propose to start that in early March, which would give us enough time to complete it. Others who have participated in a slow draft can comment, but I have the sense that it would feel more like the regular-season auctions we have - the owner nominates a player and you'd have 24 hours (for example) to submit bids, and you can set your bid as an "up-to" amount. (1/2)
Cruzship on
February 7, 2024 4:36 PM
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For the same reasons that Bombo said, I will be traveling, and it will be really difficult to pay attention for two weeks to what is going on for the draft. If there’s anyway, we can just block out a three hour window of time to do it, I think that’s the only way I will be able to do it.
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I guess there has to be someone that still prefers the one and done method. I’m doing a lot of traveling these days, daily, actually. Depending on when this is - as it seems to have overwhelming support, I may be more settled down to check. But right now, that would be really difficult.
BomboRivera on
February 6, 2024 1:29 PM
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I'm fine with a slow draft as well.
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So far, 7 owners have agreed to the idea of a slow draft using couchmanager. I'm waiting for the response from 4 owners before I start working on that, so pls respond Y/N if you haven't done so.
Cruzship on
February 6, 2024 11:33 AM
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I'm flexible for pretty much any time other than the weekend of March 8th. Happy to do a slow draft too.
Raganomics on
February 5, 2024 8:15 AM
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I am in favor of slow draft. Have never done but sounds fun.
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Sounds like a great option. Happy to help in any way.
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I’m also good with the slow draft, and I’m happy to help with loading the results into Ottoneu.
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I am up for slow draft so long as not a lot of extra work for the commisoner.
Bazzball! on
February 4, 2024 10:43 PM
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My experience is about 10-12 days depending on how it’s set up. We generally do 24hr clock, reset to 12hr on new bids below that (basically in place of overnight pauses). 2 noms to start, bump to 3 once major players are gone (generally day 4/5). Eligibility issues are minor, usually only a few players that are fairly obvious. I was hesitant (and truthfully didn’t enjoy it) at first, but have come to enjoy it…definitely a slight learning curve and mental adjustment to make.
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If that link doesn’t work it was 2/13/23 by Chad Young on Rotographs
Cruzship on
February 4, 2024 10:09 PM
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Here’s a link to an article about this: https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/thinking-about-auctions-fast-and-slow-logistics-and-details/
Cruzship on
February 4, 2024 10:08 PM
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Good feedback. If we started early March do you think that would be enough time?
Cruzship on
February 4, 2024 10:06 PM
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Other Ottoneu league i have done this in, it has gone really smoothly. Think we started with 12 hour auctions reset to 8 when outbid, paused overnight, each owner having 1 nomination to start. Once auction was flowing and everyone was comfortable increased the number of nominations to 2 or 3. I did not feel like position eligibility was that hard to navigate. Guessing that entire slow draft took 2 weeks maybe.
I am in favor. It eliminates the trouble scheduling a draft day for 12 ow
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My understanding is that there is a lot of variability allowed - e.g. the amount of time player auctions are live, the number of players each owner can nominate per round, etc. One comment was that the position eligibility in Ottoney and CM doesn't match, so people would have to be very careful about that. Lastly, the downside of an auction like this is that a lot can happen before the season begins. So I don't quite know how to handle the timing (when should we start it, etc?). (2/2)
Cruzship on
February 4, 2024 9:48 PM
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Thanks for the suggestion. I spent a few minutes looking at this and it appears that Ottoneu is set up to import into Couchmanagers, and from the Community comments it works well. That said, there are a lot of options for how it is done, and everyone would have to agree to this because they would have to set up in Couchmanagers to participate. that is I'd have to set up the draft and each of you would have to create an account, etc. Do people want to do this? We need all 12. (1/2)
Cruzship on
February 4, 2024 9:46 PM
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I use couchmangers in another league, easy to import into, commish generally has to manually add on the back end. Open to a slow draft if the rest of the league is…happy to help add players on the back end to ease the burden on commish if that’s the route we go. Also open to an earlier draft in Feb if it works best for everyone’s schedules.
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In one of my other leagues we are using couch managers slow draft. I think it is pretty easy to interface with Ottoneu.
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I haven’t been able to review the second round of voting . As I said, if anyone has a better idea how to schedule a draft for 12 busy people please suggest how to do it. I have one owner who said they are available for 1/13 dates! That makes it almost impossible to schedule.
Cruzship on
February 4, 2024 7:26 PM
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Santo - thank you and I missed that. Those are official games and they count. We should draft before that.
Cruzship on
February 4, 2024 7:24 PM
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FWIW, I can't be on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. I have to run basketball and baseball practices until 10.
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21st is currently leading poll round 2; friendly reminder that the Korea games are 20th/21st…not sure how much we (as a league) care about counting those games.
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Thanks for the quick responses - pls see another email I sent to the league regarding draft date.
Cruzship on
February 4, 2024 2:21 PM
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I’m waiting for 4 owners to respond to the draft date poll.
Cruzship on
February 4, 2024 1:16 PM
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Hi Santo - you beat me to the punch. I plan to use Doodle as I did last year to determine a date and will do that this weekend. It’s one of the toughest things in all of fantasy (draft scheduling)
Cruzship on
February 2, 2024 4:57 PM
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Shall we start getting draft scheduled? My calendar is already filling up!
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Looking to do last minute trades. Please send offers. All players on team available
Bazzball! on
January 30, 2024 9:25 AM
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Hi Owners - all but two owners have renewed their teams. To the two who have not, please make sure you do that before the Jan 31 deadline. And thank you to the rest who have renewed. Keep up the trade action!
Cruzship on
January 28, 2024 11:43 AM
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Good to know - thanks Bombo
Cruzship on
January 25, 2024 1:00 PM
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By the way, I believe 11am central MLB Network is doing a press conference with the new inductees out in Cooperstown this morning, if you’re interested
BomboRivera on
January 25, 2024 11:21 AM
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I had my location set up to never. Once I changed, I was able to process. Thanks! Time to make cuts and look over any last minute trades.
BomboRivera on
January 25, 2024 11:20 AM
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I had some issues with a Visa card that wasn't going through but worked with a different card. Used Chrome. Were you connecting via VPN or with your location blocked via policy?
Raganomics on
January 25, 2024 11:06 AM
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Hi Bombo - no issues for me either - it only took a couple of minutes. It looks like 8 Managers have been able to renew. You can email ottoneu if your problems persist.
Cruzship on
January 25, 2024 11:06 AM
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No issuse for me. I renewed earlier this week from my cell phone. I had used paydala for fantasy football renewal previously as well.
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