• Nice job tonight, everyone. Got 'er done in less than 2.5 hours. Not too shabby. There used to be some button I had to click as Commish to confirm "done with draft" that would release free agents for bidding, but it appears that has been done away with. It looks like FAs are good to go. Please let me know if you experience any problems. Good luck and best wishes for a fun season!

  Damn the Torpedoes on March 3, 2025 10:35 PM

• Reminder: Auction draft TONIGHT, 8p sharp. Be ready with your nomination que locked and loaded! No "pass" allowed. See you all in a few hours...

  Damn the Torpedoes on March 3, 2025 12:59 PM

• Never seen anything like that before

  Generous Carriage on February 1, 2025 7:31 AM

• Hey commish cut my team I'm out!

  Juan and the Judge on January 31, 2025 11:48 PM

• Just a friendly reminder, cut and renewal deadline both tomorrow at midnight. We still have a couple teams that need to be renewed, so don't forget!

  Damn the Torpedoes on January 30, 2025 10:25 AM

• Thank you for all of your input on a draft date. Based on the responses, I have gone ahead and scheduled our auction draft for Monday, March 3 at 8p EST. Be sure to have your team renewed and all of your cuts in by midnight this Friday.

  Damn the Torpedoes on January 28, 2025 9:13 PM

• March 4 and 13 I have other drafts

  All Proofs on January 28, 2025 7:40 PM

• Any night 8:00 EST and onward works for me.

  Octane Twisted on January 27, 2025 8:44 PM

• I will be on vacation from Feb 21st to March 2nd. If I want to keep my marriage, it would be nice to avoid this time period. I know that's quite a few days, but would appreciate it if possible!

  Las Piranhas on January 26, 2025 4:15 PM

• Welcome new owners of Carver High. Good stuff, GC, on your limited availability. Thanks for sharing it early on in the process. That helps to narrow our choices down. If anyone else has pending conflicts, please sing out. It looks like we still have several evenings available in late Feb-early Mar. If nobody else has any concerns, I will go ahead and pick one so we can get it on the books.

  Damn the Torpedoes on January 25, 2025 10:56 PM

• Whats up yall! I have another owner to add to my team so if anyone knows how to make that happen I would appreciate it! My personal style is that I like to wheel and deal. I don’t consider anyone untouchable, so if there is someone on my team you like, shoot a reasonable offer.

  Carver High on January 24, 2025 3:02 PM

• Welcome to the new owner of Carver High!

  Generous Carriage on January 24, 2025 2:35 PM

• Weekend daytime drafts are tough for me to make, but I'm pretty flexible on evenings post-8pm ET either weekday or weeknight. Currently have other drafts scheduled on 2/12, 2/16, 2/23, 3/7, 3/9, 3/12. Also won't be available from 3/14 thru 3/22 because of travel (kids' spring break). Lots of dates in there I know...maybe easier to have people fill out a draft scheduler?

  Generous Carriage on January 23, 2025 8:35 PM

• Renewed. Feb 9 and Feb 22-23 are out for me. Thursdays also not good. Saturdays/Sundays are best OR as late as possible Central during the week.

  Wheat State Wildcats on January 22, 2025 3:04 PM

• Happy 2025, everyone! The keeper deadline, along with the deadline to renew your team for the upcoming season (several teams pending) is a week from Friday, so be sure to get those details locked down and let's work on setting a draft date. The MLB regular season begins with the Gimmick Opening Day (in Japan) on March 18, so any day between Feb 1 and that date is up for consideration. Please sing out with any day/time conflicts/concerns and I will work to whittle down the options.

  Damn the Torpedoes on January 22, 2025 2:27 PM

• There is only a week left of arbitration and a number of teams haven't participated yet. Let's wrap it up y'all!

  Octane Twisted on November 7, 2024 3:52 PM

• Hey, Commish. Please mark my team abandoned.

  The Keymasters on October 18, 2024 9:57 AM

• Great season, guys. Thanks for a fun year. I'm going to ramble on out of the league though. I've been a good steward of the team and I imagine someone will claim it before arbitration even begins. Take care, all!

  The Keymasters on October 10, 2024 11:38 AM

• Great draft tonight, guys. Strick9, we missed you, but you are definitely in control of the FA market! And Papi, it was good to see you get in late. Fortunately, you had most of your budget already allocated, so hopefully you weren't hurt too much by the late arrival. FAs should be good to go, so you may commence auctions at any time. Best of luck to all for a fun competition.

  Damn the Torpedoes on February 26, 2024 10:34 PM

• Something happened and I won't be able to be with you guys before 21:15-21:30. Hope to be there

  Big Papi memories on February 26, 2024 4:33 PM

• One final reminder that the Ottoneu $100 Old School Hardball auction draft is TONIGHT! 8 PM sharp, eastern standard time. Hope to see everyone in the draft room on time and ready to go with your noms qued up!

  Damn the Torpedoes on February 26, 2024 9:32 AM

• Reminder: The auction draft is only 2 days away! Please check to make sure you can access the Ottoneu draft room with no problems. (Some users have reported issues with certain browsers.) Also, it will be helpful to load your que in advance with players you wish to nominate. There will be no "passing" (as best I can help it), so be like a Boy Scout ("Be Prepared"). Look forward to seeing everyone in the draft room Monday night.

  Damn the Torpedoes on February 24, 2024 10:48 AM

• Sounds good to me

  Generous Carriage on February 13, 2024 6:42 AM

• Let's go ahead and plan for a Monday, February 26 auction draft. Better sooner than later and it will give us some room to adjust should any unforeseen conflicts arise. I look forward to seeing everyone in the topsy-turvy Ottoneu draft room two weeks from tomorrow night!

  Damn the Torpedoes on February 11, 2024 3:53 PM

• 2/12 and 13 are out for me.

  Juan and the Judge on February 10, 2024 7:54 AM

• I can do any of those dates, although could only make an evening time work (5:30pm ET or later) on Sat 3/2

  Generous Carriage on February 10, 2024 7:27 AM

• Thanks for all the quick responses! With a couple teams left to weigh in, this is getting narrowed down real fast. Here are the remaining post-SuperBowl/pre-Korea dates with no apparent conflicts: M 2/12, T 2/13, M 2/26, Sat 3/2, T 3/5, M 3/18. Please respond with any concerns regarding these dates and let's see if we can't lock one in this weekend. We would obviously be looking at an evening draft, save for possibly the one remaining Saturday, which looks awful enticing.

  Damn the Torpedoes on February 9, 2024 3:15 PM

• Getting a knee replaced 2/22 probably out 2/22 and 2/23. I'll be around pretty much after that. Where would me my parrot and peg leg go?!? Arrrrg! Also, 3/29-31 out too.

  Juan and the Judge on February 9, 2024 1:20 PM

• Welcome back Papi!
  
  Re: draft dates, maybe easiest to just do a Doodle to figure this out? I'm unavailable 3/8 through 3/17 (family vacation during my kids' spring break) and I have drafts on 2/20, 2/25, 2/27, 3/3, 3/4, 3/6, 3/19, 3/23.
  
  One other thing to keep in mind is that while Opening Day in the states is 3/28, the regular season actually starts with the Korea series on 3/20, so it would be better to draft before that if we don't want to have complications with LAD

  Generous Carriage on February 9, 2024 7:31 AM

• Just claimed the open team, paid my dues and changed my team name. Had to cut a pretty good 5x5 player like Freeman. I think I was in this league last year or the year before. Happy to be back

  Big Papi memories on February 9, 2024 1:05 AM

• 2/14, 2/16-24, 3/14-17 are out for me

  Wheat State Wildcats on February 8, 2024 10:07 PM

• I can’t draft 2/28, 3/12, and 3/20-3/24

  Carver High on February 8, 2024 9:35 PM

• I have drafts on 2/18, 2/25, 3/20, 3/21, 3/22, 3/23. And I can’t do March 11-13

  The Keymasters on February 8, 2024 7:53 PM

• Whoops, also 3/01

  All Proofs on February 8, 2024 6:59 PM

• I'm out on 3/15-3/17

  All Proofs on February 8, 2024 6:58 PM

• I have other drafts on 2/25, 3/16, 3/23 and 3/25.

  Octane Twisted on February 8, 2024 6:33 PM

• Maybe an assistant commission would help when you are not around. I'm willing!

  Juan and the Judge on February 8, 2024 2:46 PM

• My apologies, guys. Been out of the country with limited access to civilization, but I am back in the saddle and locked in. Please respond with any dates/times you are OUT for a potential auction draft and let's see if we can get something locked down. Important dates to keep in mind: Pitchers & Catchers report next week, Spring Training Exhibition play begins 2/22, and MLB Opening Day is Thursday, March 28.

  Damn the Torpedoes on February 8, 2024 2:31 PM

• Also we need to plan a draft date. All my other leagues have either set a date or are working on it. My nights are starting to fill up!

  Octane Twisted on February 7, 2024 3:56 PM

• Torpedoes, assuming you have not heard anything further from 36 Chambers, can you abandon the team so we can find a 12th owner? He posted on the message board in October that he wasn't coming back. Would love to get the league filled and get a draft date on the calendar. 11 of my 14 leagues already have a date locked in.

  Generous Carriage on February 6, 2024 8:07 PM

• 24 for me

  All Proofs on February 4, 2024 2:44 PM

• 24

  Juan and the Judge on January 30, 2024 5:23 PM

• Yes to 24

  Las Piranhas on January 30, 2024 3:22 PM

• I vote for 24

  Carver High on January 30, 2024 1:53 PM

• Yes to 24 hours

  The Keymasters on January 30, 2024 1:50 PM

• I would prefer 24 as well

  Generous Carriage on January 30, 2024 1:37 PM

• Does anyone have an interest in cutting the trade processing wait time from 48 hours to 24 hours? I am not sure what is gained by having the extra 24 hours of wait time. Thoughts?

  Octane Twisted on January 30, 2024 1:28 PM

• Hey everyone, I’m the new manager of Blue Jays (new name coming soon). I’ve been playing Ottoneu for 10 years and have won my fair share of championships, but wanted to step it up to a bigger money league. This seems like a great opportunity so here I am. I’ve got some trading to do since my team is too expensive. Reasonable offers only please.

  Octane Twisted on January 27, 2024 10:53 PM

• LFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  The Keymasters on January 27, 2024 4:48 PM

• Just FYI, please be aware that the deadline for both renewing your team and finalizing keepers is just four days away (1/31). Any teams that do not renew will be automatically abandoned by Ottoneu and I have no doubt will be quickly claimed. New owners will get an opportunity to immediately make any cuts. Once we have 12 owners officially locked in, we will commence the process of deciding upon an auction draft date.

  Damn the Torpedoes on January 27, 2024 3:55 PM

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