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Thanks again Chris & Chief for all your hard work getting this league together! Now, the wait is over! Happy Opening Day everybody!
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Just wanted to thank everyone for all of the participation in the slow draft and getting it done before opening day. I wasn’t sure we would be ready but you all proved me wrong and I appreciate all of the effort to do so. Big shoutout to Chris for doing all of the legwork and making sure that all of the rosters and money was taken care of. Looking forward to an active successful year for what I think is a really good league. Good luck everyone. Play ball.
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Thanks Chris for all of your time and effort organizing and gathering all our data! Looking forward to competing with everyone this year!
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I'm actually good leaving the open roster spot, so consider myself done.
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Good afternoon. I declare that the 2025 Big Gulps draft is over with one small exception. Curse of the Colonel gets to name one player who will be added to their team for one dollar. You are free to auction, cut and trade. I thank you for patience and understanding through what has been a much too exciting process. Good luck to everyone this season.
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Roster looks good for my team. Ready to go
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Looks good to me!
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4 PM EDT for a start? Give C of the C lots of time after golf.
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Yessir! Looks good on my end as well!
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I'm about to tee off, so if anyone needs anything in the next 4 hours, I'll get to it then.
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Looks correct for me as well.
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Confirmed from me. Let's do this
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Mine are good as well
Snakes Alive on
March 10, 2025 12:53 PM
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All good here, ready to start
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I have done the import into couchmanagers. All of my checks for number and dollars add up. But please check that your team is correct. Once we are happy, we can start any time.
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Sorry about the wait, I’m in now
Snakes Alive on
March 10, 2025 12:20 PM
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Waiting on snakes alive to register again
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I am less poed at couchmanagers this morning. I’m too forgiving. I have set up a new room for us: https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/?auction_id=1176. Could you please register in this again. Password is crsh2025. If that’s what we want to do. I will be regularly backing up the data if we go this route. Auction period will be 10 hours with 5 hour extensions.
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One of my other leagues had to recreate it
... All that donkey work again, I know, ugh
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Glad to see the couch managers site is back up. What now?
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All data from after last Sunday at 2 PM is gone. I created the room after that, so it is wiped out.
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Looks like they've rolled back a database or something because the link you provided isn't even our league anymore...
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At this point, I have extremely interest in running an auction through couchmanagers. One crash is bad luck. Two crash and burns is where I say goodbye.
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I’ll keep trying - I must have perfect timing for the site’s failures.
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I can't remember exactly when I lost my Medium-term memory! Lol
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Just gonna throw this out there. The issue with the slow draft could be pushing our draft pretty close to opening day, assuming things are in place to start after the weekend. Is there any interest in trying to setup a live draft? If so, could get everyone to give me days/times that they would be unavailable between now and the evening of the 16th? If we could all carve out a 2 hour period, that would probably be enough time for most of us to get our teams set.
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This is the latest update from Niv regarding Couch Managers crash
https://community.ottoneu.com/t/couch-managers-down-3-2-2025/15240/27
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Frito feet, please get your feet over to the couchmanagers site: https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/index.php?auction_id=1157 password: gulp2025
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We did a slow draft last year. I fixed the $5 rebate on the fly.
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For new owners especially, this league's quirk is the vote-off thing, and if you buy that player back, you get a $5 'rebate'. But in all the years I've played this League, I can't remember doing a slow auction. Anyone else? I guess those rare players' prices can be edited later by the Commish
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Just need one more team so we can draft.
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Nevermind, I got it.
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Waiting on me, but trying to figure out this site. Never used it before.
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I was just able to change my team name. Another league was able to import rosters. Please join the couchmaster’s draft room, and we can get this going.
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Welcome to the league, new owners!
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OTTO-WAN KENEUBI is my name in my other Ottoneu League -- Mash Taters & Bangers
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Password is gulp2025
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I've set up the room at couchmanagers: https://www.couchmanagers.com/auctions/index.php?auction_id=1157 I'm not sure how much functionality there is. I can't change my team name. I'm not sure when we can import players. But, we are one step closer.
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Welcome to the league. I agree at this late date best to go with slow draft as it will provide more flexibility.
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Hey, Matt here - veteran Ottoneu player, took a couple years off but getting back into it this season. Strong preference for a slow draft if that's still being considered. Looking forward to it!
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2 hybrid leagues (play through August with Points leader paid out (sidepot), the ante goes to a Playoff winner (top 6 qualify -- double your chances to win back your investment and more!; Leagues 1043 + 1252, $100/$75); + a more 'for fun' league (xprospects 1128, cheap league, bragging rights with lots of Otto vets & Slack-ers) that rosters only players who make the Show -- thus you can't buy prospects til they debut (then the bidding war ensues!)
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For the new joiners who might want. more Otto (or for incumbent owners!)... so I'm in a couple other leagues -- we still need a couple good owners! Never seen it so late in the "spring" and so many incomplete leagues! (see next post for info)
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Both teams can just be claimed.
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I have at least one owner who wants to claim AKA Big Papi. Do they just claim them as an abandoned team?
I have a probable second owner too - should know later today.
Shrieking Eels on
February 28, 2025 10:35 AM
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I’ve reached out to a few folks too.
Shrieking Eels on
February 28, 2025 9:29 AM
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I've asked a friend of mine, but haven't gotten a response. I suspect he's worried about time commitment.
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I'd never thought of that last option before -- is it even possible to play without full ownership? I'm OK with either Auction style, but I'm abroad and thus harder to schedule Live drafts
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Opening day will be here soon. As a league, we are two managers short right now. If anyone has a friend that might want to try their hand at an Otto league now would be a great chance. Couple of things we all need to come to agreement on. Slow draft vs live draft? How long do we want to wait until draft day? Is everyone good with the possibility of two teams with no manager? Just tossing it out there. Looking for thoughts from the league.
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Yup, exactly. Usually, it lasts about a week or so. We all start with 3 nominations, so the beginning of the draft there's like 30 something guys on the board to bid on!
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so it just runs over multiple days, or whatever? I'm fine with that as well.
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