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Hey! Just grabbed this team, excited to join the league.
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Hey all, just picked up a team here; long time baseball fan, first time fantasy player. Bear with me as I learn the ropes here!
Boo Birds on
March 29, 2022 3:11 AM
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I had been reading it as âbeastâ coast đ. I lived in Hawaii for 6 years - that is the real âwest coastâ. But otherwise Iâm a lifelong East coaster.
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I'm also busy on the 3rd and won't be free til 9pm. Also, best coast = west coast, it rhymes.
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I have a league drafting on the 3rd already and likely couldnât make that day work unless it was really late. Also have another league drafting the evening of the 4th.
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I thought the âbest coastâ meant the âeast coastâ. No?
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I just had something come up on the 2nd and will be unavailable. If we were able to move it to Sunday that would be awesome, if not don't worry about it.
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Since this is best coast league is that 6 pacific time?
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We can adjust the time, what works best? 6pm?
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ater at time of day (night) would work best for me!
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Sorry when I say later I mean later time in the day, not a later date. 4/2/22 works as far as the day is concerned
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I might prefer it be later but if not I can try to make that time work
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If you guys want a different draft date lmk, I'm flexible with date/time. I figure the later the date the better chance we get completely filled.
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One week before the season sounds good to me. Gives us time to see what's happening in spring training and some injury clarity too.
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Welcome to the league Old Hoss. What do you guys think for date? 1 week before the season starts?
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Agreed we definitely need to do it before the season starts no matter how many trams we have.
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Only 2.5 weeks until opening day. We need to get a draft scheduled even if there are vacant teams. I have only 14 players on my roster, so without a draft I will be out of contention within a couple weeks into the season.
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Welcome to the league! Thanks for claiming one of the vacant teams.
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Welcome to the league! Thanks for claiming a team and joining us.
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Hi all, I just claimed SpaHa. I've played Ottoneu before; looking forward to the season. I'll get my round of cuts done asap.
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I think there are 4 vacant teams right? Ryan, Vin, SpaHa and Fairhaven?
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The 3 vacant teams are at least have full rosters. They can be adopted after the season is going and new owners can make their cuts to get them legal. What does the group think? Maybe we could get a consensus on whether to have clearly overpriced players on the illegal rosters cut? Or just leave them? I dunno.
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We should get a draft scheduled even without all 12 teams. We are going to run out of time if we wait much longer. A 9 team draft at least letâs us start the season opening day. We could at least get our rosters going, and get some trades in before the season starts.
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Yes it is, will be nice to get an auction scheduled once full and unfreeze everything in this league again.
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Just 3 more owners needed. Thatâs much better than a few weeks back. We will get there.
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Welcome to the league! Thanks for picking up a team, looking forward to a good season and all the talent that will be available at the auction. Always open to talking trades/baseball and happy to answer any questions about the Ottoneu format.
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Welcome Rake! We have two other owners that are new to Ottoneu as well, Flying Squirrels and Northbrook Teflon. If you have any questions we do have some very experienced and responsive owners here as well, so feel free to ask questions any time.
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Hi all, found the league just scrolling through teams to claim and it seems like you guys have good activity, plus west coast times were appealing. A little about me, this is my first time playing ottoneu, but I've been playing fantasy baseball for over a decade and I'm a big Padres fan, so taking over Cronengirth seemed appropriate. Looking forward to a fun season, whenever it actually starts.
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Haha all good suggestions. I'll think about it and come up with one soon.
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âFlying Squirrels Sr.â?
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Or âFlying Squirrels 2â. Maybe âOriginal Flying Squirrelsâ
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Colugos too
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Flying Lemurs are similar to flying squirrels.
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Welcome to the league! As far as a new name, why not try "Soaring Spermophiles"???
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Thanks for welcoming me back! I was in this league for 4 or 5 years as the owner of Flying Squirrels then dropped trying to cut back on how many leagues I was in, but Winnetka and Spa convinced me to come back this year. Going to have to think of a new name now! In all my years of doing Ottoneu I've only ever been the Flying Squirrels!
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Everyone welcome the original Flying Squirrels who have taken over Moose Wrastlers.
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No problem. I support Squirrelsâ request.
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Agreed let him cut whoever he wants , all good đ
Wreckers on
February 23, 2022 9:35 PM
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Squirrels is asking the league if we can give him a mulligan and cut one more player to make his roster legal? Since Squirrels is brand new to the format and considering we still need six new owners I would think the best course is to let him cut one player to get his team under the cap.
Winnetka Twins on
February 23, 2022 9:00 PM
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The issue is that you have to have at least $1 available per roster space available. So youâre under the $400 cap by $1 but not within the guidelines because you have 14 roster spaces available so you would need to be at least $14 under the cap to be valid. Hope that helps clarify things.
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Hi Iâm really confused how I ended up over cap, my screen says Iâm at 399 of 400 but I guess I must have made a mistake. Will you allow me to drop a player without penalty? I would really appreciate it. Iâm new to this whole thing. Thanks
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I have tried. I think the MLB-MLBPA fight is making baseball an afterthought. Hard to get people excited about Ottoneu when nobody knows when baseball will start. I also think the labor dispute makes it seem less like a relaxing, fun game to watch. I asked team owners in other leagues, and a couple friends of mine but I canât seem to sell anyone on baseball right now. Sad.
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Any progress on recruiting new teams?
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I think we should most definitely wait until the league is full. It could be a strong selling point to attract new owners to have an upcoming auction.
Winnetka Twins on
February 15, 2022 1:22 AM
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It would be best to wait for all 12 teams to be owned. But what if we get close to opening day and still have vacant teams? I think we should at least have a draft before the season starts. We all paid $20, and might as well have some fun, even if the league winds up being half full.
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I do wonder a bit at what point would the league just maybe close down, like if we get to opening week and still haven't drafted and have a handful of abandoned teams still. Just wouldn't be the same as playing with a full league.
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Yeah I think it probably wouldn't be good for league dynamics/economics to have only 5-6 teams drafting with the other 6-7 totally absent. Would just create more disparity and one sided teams I'm afraid. Plus if held before these teams are claimed the auction pool would be less since there's probably a decent amount of cuts on the unoccupied teams.
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You should wait till league is full , not fair to do it sooner , plus with the lockout no rush
Wreckers on
February 12, 2022 7:20 PM
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What worries me in this league is that if we hold a draft with 6 teams absent, the 6 teams will be all that much less attractive to adopt. But if we wait, we might not have a draft for months. How long do we wait? Should we just hold a draft soon and let the chips fall where they may?
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It very well could be. Spring Training delays could just be the start. It also doesnât help that a massive number of expired teams showed up on the claim a team page today after the 10 day grace period to pay expired. Havenât counted but could be a hundred teams to choose from right now.
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