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Welcome to the league!
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Hey everyone,
I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Jim, been playing ottoneu for 5+ years and I know a few of you from one of my other leagues. I like to trade, although I'm not big on prospects. Send me a message or a trade proposal and I'll try to get back to you.
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Yep, coming back
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I am not going to be back this season.
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Thanks for those confirming their participation for 2023. Roster cuts are due by 1/31.
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I will be back
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I'll be back
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Ok. Thanks for letting me know.
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I won’t be back. Please drop me.
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Yes- I will be back for more
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Happy New Year everyone! With the keeper deadline approaching at the end of the month, can each of the owners give your intentions on staying on for the 2023 season? I'll make Sunday, Jan 28 as the deadline for these decisions to be shared.
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For the time being, I'm going to remain on as commissioner. My 2022 summer was super busy, and I simply didn't have a lot of time to dedicate to Ottoneu, much less to being a commish. I'm going to reflect on it and make a decision based on my time later this month. I promised myself more baseball in 2023-we'll see how I feel.
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Arbitration begins Sat 10/15. Please take advantage of an important part of the league calendar. If you plan on NOT returning for the 2023 season, I request either abandoning your team prior to arbitration so we can find a replacement owner. It's not a HUGE deal if you arb than abandon...it's the next best scenario. Better than not participating at all. Nevertheless, good luck to everyone.
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Congrats to the Champ
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Great season all! Think we have some issues to clean up but hopefully everyone will be back and ready to go for next year!
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Congrats on the big championship trophy! That was quite the push at the end of the season. To all that placed, congrats as well. I hope to dust off my former champion self and make a push in 2023.
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Nice win, Holy Owned. We'll try again next year
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Well damn Tyler, this is a bit awkward. It seems you have lost the lead.
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As a reminder: Trade Deadline is Wednesday, August 31.
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Well, that was sure something to wake up to
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Tyler, buddy. You should have never picked those players up if you didn’t have a clear pathway or plan to drop players. Absolute abuse of the rules. I expect swift action. You’re in big trouble if this isn’t fixed. It’s been an obscure amount of hours plus some.
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Tyler…. C’mon, pal. It’s not very becoming of you to make me have to send all these complaints and about your complaint that you seem to not have to adhere to. I’ve thought long and hard about cutting down on leagues. Your actions are going to make my decision easier. It’s a real shame because team is the best and will continue to be the best.
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Complain away my man, the league is what we decide it is. I expected a level of competition here that was shown to be false. No harm no foul, it happens. I fought for the league I wanted this to be, even if it is a casual $20 league, because I like the competition I find here. The league felt differently and I can't fault anyone for that.
And if anyone else wants some young players or prospects from my roster hit me up, I won't be using them so they will go to the highest bidder.
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Tyler, pal. What was all this “spirit of the rule” chatter? Now I have to complain about you complaining. I swear to god I’ll quit.
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Hey buddy, I have a plan. I'll be legal at some point. My lineup is set for days so I have time to think everything through and not make the wrong move. I don't want to drop someone I would want if someone goes on the 60 day IL tomorrow or the day after or the day after that or the day after that. Gotta see how it plays out. Bummer I can't bid on the new auctions though.
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Tyler, buddy. Your roster still isn’t legal and I’m worried about that undefined rule. Don’t make me complain to the commissioner. I paid $20 for this league and I don’t want my fun ruined.
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Tyler- listen here pal. I will expect your roster to be legal soon.
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Tyler. Buddy. Come on. It’s been an obscure amount of hours and those players need to be dropped.
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Now Tyler… don’t make me throw a fit and threaten to quit the league. You know the rules, pal. Get to dropping those players.
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I think you’re doing a bang up job, commish.
The dude in first threatening to quit is the funniest part of the conversation.
Appreciate the entertainment.
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Let’s all just move on and respect the rules from now on. Thanks to commish for getting this done.
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Thanks for what you do Shot - I've been a commissioner before, it is a thankless job. Sorry for causing such a commotion.
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I try to keep this place light because it’s a nice distraction from the bs of every day life. I don’t factor to have to measure my professional acumen in the way I handle things. I made more than multiple
DMs to Chance that will remain private in order to make sure he understood the consequences of these actions. In the end, the issue figured itself out…and I do believe his team has been severely damaged for the season…and possibly into next. In the end, Harper was probably not worth this.
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This is supposed to be my escape from adulting bullshit not a reminder of more adulting bullshit. Sorry for my tone right now- the situation was bad from the start and only became worse-still, looking at the depletion in Chance’s roster should be enough for anyone to realize this was a foolish gamble. Now it’s turned into idle threats of quitting or tearing down and a suggestion I’m not doing my job well enough. That I won’t stand for-
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Dude…I’m not being paid to refresh my internet browser all day to check and double check the roster compliance of a $20 league where no one is winning anything other than a trophy icon on a webpage. I have a friggin’ life with responsibilities and stuff. You even admitted that once I picked up the two players on waivers the line up would be fine. If you don’t like how I’m running things, you take it on-see how that factors in with your worldview. This issue has been settled. Move on.
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*on the roster
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And claims on Ruiz and Pratto will get him under the cap finally. But again, the fact that he was able to employ this strategy of hoping others remove those cap hits for him is completely against the spirit of the rules in place.
I had the 2nd place bid originally and the 2nd waiver claim on Harper and had a clear plan to be compliant with one round of cuts of 3 players.
I'm fine missing out on Harper, I'm only in disagreement about the strategy taken to get him on the
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I only stated my intentions of not continuing next year to let owners know I'm like a GM that has to make the playoffs or get fired, my young players mean almost nothing to me right now as I'm focused on this year.
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And Not Hot Mess is a rebuilding team in last place that can easily add MLB players if we really want to enforce that. They're not trying to sneak a player on the roster for the rest of this season and going forward.
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The fact is you should have been compliant after a single round of cuts after acquiring the player that put you over. Your strategy of slowly releasing players hoping others will take their cap hits off your ledger is clearly in violation of the spirit of the rules. Your roster may be depleted now but you'll be able to pick up replacements soon enough and then likely after that get to enjoy the services of the player you skirted the rules for and likely next year as well.
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Please take care of it or I’ll do the deed on my end. We’ve been more than patient.
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The real lesson here is if you're walking in the woods and come across a wild Bryce Harper, whatever you do, don't pick him. Does anyone actually expect Hot Mess (and Troops) to come back next year?
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i will absolutely be compliant today. If we are concerned with roster rules it should also be noted that Hot Mess, the team that dropped Harper, has not been legal for 24 hours longer than I haven't. This is per rule 1a (need to have at least 22 MLB players on roster).
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Check that- exceptions here and there for footfaults is fine where there is no harm to any other team but I think everyone has to agree here that this is beyonfd a footfault and has been ongoing for a long time.
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It's unfortunate but self inflicted. I tend to agree with Mudville here- you sap out any competitive motives if you don't have rules or allow teams to bend them.
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It should be noted that Chance's roster is being heavily depleted through the extraordinary cuts he's had to make to become compliant. As a result, his roster is barely functional. This is a clear punishment set by having to become compliant. Nevertheless, it is inherently bad that an owner can collect points while being over cap. This is an issue with Ottoneu and separate from this situation as I believe Chance is trying to become compliant, but through poor a poor process.
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I have limited resources to punish owners for these actions. The biggest tool I have is cutting players off of teams-which is troublesome because I'm making uncomfortable player decisions Still, I'm waiting until the waivers go through today-as a point, I did put a claim to both Ruiz and Pratto-I haven't sat down and done the math to see how this affects Chance's salary. I will give this until the claim deadline passes today and then make a decision on what can be our next steps.
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Commish gave him until the start of today's game to make his roster legal. It has to happen before then.
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117 hours and still has an illegal roster hoping for others to bail him out.
I was already on the fence about continuing Ottoneu next year, this is the sign I needed for me to decide that this will be my last year in this league at least. I joined Ottoneu to have active owners and a set of rules I liked and others followed which until now every other owner in my two leagues have followed those rules.
If anyone wants any of my younger players make offers now.
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Full rule I.c. At no time shall a team willingly go over roster and salary cap limits. If a team knowingly does this, they will face penalties at the discretion of their league's commissioner.
You can have other penalties placed on you at Shot's discretion. Being locked by Ottoneu is the bare minimum the site can do.
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