• Big time miss! :) Finished a good 50 spots or so from the 2nd cut.

  Northern Lights on June 12, 2025 10:08 AM

• Northern, did you miss the OPL cut???

  No Cigar on June 12, 2025 9:38 AM

• I'm looking to consolidate some of my guys into some starting pitching, please holler if you're interested in anyone on my trade block.

  No Cigar on June 10, 2025 12:07 PM

• Stop helping the enemy

  Ace Deuce on June 6, 2025 5:13 PM

• Everyone remembers that we can re-auction our cut guys after 30 days & then cut them again to regain salary, yeah? I see some rosters with guys that are costing their teams more than they need to.

  No Cigar on June 6, 2025 5:05 PM

• I have a coupla few strong RPs (7+ PPG) that are $1 each. Kyle Leahy has 9th most holds in MLB and is top 25 in total points for RP. Jack Dreyer is also top 25 in total points for RP.
  I'm looking to consolidate for a cheap backup catcher or a cheap SP. Holler if you could use a cheap bullpen upgrade.

  No Cigar on June 1, 2025 9:39 AM

• Only 196 MLB players have achieved 400 doubles. Two more players are nearly there:
  
  Carlos Santana (398) - Mill Street Maestros
  Nolan Arenado (397) - Cole World
  
  Good luck to those guys! I hope they close. The deal this week.

  Northern Lights on May 26, 2025 1:59 PM

• Welcome back, Ronald Acuna! I thought you at $20 was a play for next season, but I'll take paying you half the average this season, too.

  No Cigar on May 24, 2025 8:34 AM

• Drake Baldwin is a great add. I already have three solid-hitting catchers (a bit of a surprise!) so couldn't compete for another...but Baldwin is great!

  Northern Lights on May 21, 2025 10:10 PM

• sigh, nice add, Carita. buncha good young catchers this season! and more on the way.

  No Cigar on May 21, 2025 7:32 PM

• For those impacted by the today's resumption of Monday's Twins-Guardians game, I believe Ottoneu's data provider will move the resumed game stats to Monday's data, where they should have accumulated. It may create temporary data oddities on today, however. (Data corrections usually occur overnight.)
  
  Also, for OPL (Cigar), resumed game stats do NOT count. Today, OPL will only count the actual Wednesday game. (It would count two games if today was an actual double header, though.)

  Northern Lights on May 21, 2025 2:10 PM

• I think about it now & then, but I always end up thinking I'm being too clever by half, and I'm just outsmarting myself, so I let it ride.

  No Cigar on May 19, 2025 7:22 PM

• AND…I just hit a HR against myself! 😂

  Northern Lights on May 19, 2025 7:10 PM

• So yeah, same logic you use. Basically it’s insurance against the pitcher giving up home runs.

  Lake Gage Loons on May 19, 2025 3:18 PM

• I do start hitters against my own pitchers: if the pitcher gives up a dong against my own hitter and I don’t start them, it’s worth -12.3. If I start the hitter, it’s only worth -2.9. And yes, it would be best to avoid the negative points altogether, but then you’re gambling on that hitter getting a home run and forgoing any points from the pitcher.

  Lake Gage Loons on May 19, 2025 3:16 PM

• To CORRECT MYSELF: A lot of Ottoneu players will not roster their own hitters or pitchers against one another. I do. But I also lack HR power, so maybe I'm not the type of manager to be concerned!

  Northern Lights on May 19, 2025 2:50 PM

• Do you avoid rostering hitters when you control an opposing pitcher? Or vice versa? I know a lot of Ottoneu players will not, but I do. I figure you only lose 2.6 pts per single, double or triple (for the -2.6 assigned the pitcher per hit). HRs, however, are a negative exchange (-0.9 pts overall, I think). Otherwise, you miss out on all the points the pitcher might get against other hitters if you rest the pitcher.
  
  How do you handle it?

  Northern Lights on May 19, 2025 2:19 PM

• GOD DAMMIT YOU PUNKS STOP STEALING MY WAIVER WIRE GUYS

  Lake Gage Loons on May 16, 2025 10:05 AM

• Congrats to you two for making the cut! (Sorry, Carita.)

  Lake Gage Loons on May 15, 2025 7:53 AM

• wow, I hit 170 for OPL on the dot, as close as it gets! good luck in next round, Northern, and better luck next year, Carita!

  No Cigar on May 15, 2025 7:52 AM

• It's the final day of OPL Round 1, Carita and Cigar! Get your boppers in the lineup. I had a rare day with HRs yesterday (6) and moved up 20+ places and across the cut line. The teams in the 160 - 180 zone are all within 50 pts of the current cut line (170), so it'll be easy to rise or tumble around it. Good luck!

  Northern Lights on May 14, 2025 9:07 AM

• SIX TEAMS with 8-6 record! Don't think I've seen that before. Good to see your fightin No Cigars back in that top point spot.

  No Cigar on May 12, 2025 9:50 AM

• Anyone interested in C. Walker? Starting to bounce back and I could use some salary relief

  Carita Bombs on May 9, 2025 10:02 AM

• I'd need to jump around 30 spots in order to not get cut, so I doubt I'll make it. Best of luck to you & Carita! Next year, I'll need to remember that my first iteration of the team matters a helluva lot more in OPL than in our ottoneu league (I like to gradually build up my 'pen, rather than spend on it in the draft).

  No Cigar on May 6, 2025 9:00 AM

• Alright, Carita and Cigar! The three of us have 10 days until the OPL makes cuts. My squad has taken a couple weeks off hitting (if not R&R on the IL) and last week my pitchers (like many in the league) were REALLY not into their work. Even Skenes was a disaster. I have dropped below the cut line. Maybe Cigar and I can post 1000 pt weeks in our H2H (which to judge by history for me would be Cigar besting me by < 50 pts ... because close but no cigar). Good luck to all!

  Northern Lights on May 5, 2025 4:48 PM

• With Glasnow and now Burnes out, I had to go for it. One can never have too much pitching.

  Alameda Trick Cards on May 3, 2025 10:26 PM

• If Gonsolin returns to his former self, that's great value, Alameda, bravo, that's the kinda pickup that wins you leagues, goddamnit i shoulda gone ten

  No Cigar on May 3, 2025 7:53 PM

• Yeah and I’m pretty sure I didn’t make the playoffs that year lol. Ottoneu game 2001 Mariners.

  Lake Gage Loons on April 28, 2025 3:18 PM

• Okay. July 8 "week" in 2024 was extended, so Carita and Lake Gage: no soup for you! Carita and Cigar have some 1000+ pt weeks in the historical record, but I keep finding they were extended weeks.
  
  OH! Hahaha. June 6 - 12, 2022: Lake Gage posted 1120 pts.
  
  Maybe 1000-pt week should be a "Loony"!

  Northern Lights on April 28, 2025 1:55 PM

• A "Jhoan"? A fine idea. BUT: I need to see if/when it's been accomplished before...in a regular 7-day week. In random checks of H2H results from 2024 (via /tools/rivals/2024), I find that at least Ace Deuce, Carita, and Lake Gage all accomplished a 1000-pt week. However, Ace's happened in the extended Week 1 (so included March 20/21 games overseas); and Carita and Lake Gage did it week of July 8--which MIGHT have been a "long" week near All-Star. The July 8 seems solid though

  Northern Lights on April 28, 2025 1:44 PM

• How about we call it a Jhoan?

  Lake Gage Loons on April 28, 2025 9:00 AM

• I do not expect to experience this sort of week again, where nearly every decision I made maximized my point output. It was fun while it lasted, and I expect the bill for my devil's bargain to come due soon.
  
  The 1000 point word comment is making me think of the Washington's Dream SNL sketch.
  
  "It seems like we should have a word for a 1000 point week, sir."
  
  "And yet we won't."

  My Heart Will Jhoan on April 28, 2025 8:57 AM

• WELL DONE! It's really quite amazing how dominant the Jhoans have been without being gaudily dominant. For example, Ottoneu highly rewards power ... but his squad is ranked #11 in HRs! He's doing it through a lineup of crazy consistency on both sides, being ranked #2 in both P/G and P/IP. That's very satisfying ... if you run the team! :) Great job, Jhoans.
  
  There should be a term for a 1000 pt week

  Northern Lights on April 27, 2025 8:16 PM

• A HUGE round of applause for the Jhoans, who just hit quadruple figures. Crazy things are happening in that clubhouse.

  Lake Gage Loons on April 27, 2025 6:22 PM

• You were merely subject to the Iron Law of Ottoneu - you will always start the disaster and sit the miracle. We are all subject in our own time to the Iron Law. This is the way.

  Lake Gage Loons on April 27, 2025 8:23 AM

• Did I leave eugenio on my bench? Yes because ai am a moron

  Vestal Virgins on April 26, 2025 11:57 PM

• And great to see that you and Carita are in OPL too! Best of luck to you all!

  Northern Lights on March 31, 2025 4:13 PM

• Thank you, Cigar! It's a nice thing...though I suspect a fair drop in the standings is coming before the first cut line (which comes up way too quick). There's no way my pitching staff can continue the low BB and HR rates. And the snapshot roster system is a huge difficulty factor. But I like the OPL challenge!

  Northern Lights on March 31, 2025 4:02 PM

• whoa, Northern, top 75 in OPL, bravo

  No Cigar on March 31, 2025 12:44 PM

• It's up to 7 now I think 😭. At least it's only week 1.

  Mill City Maestros on March 29, 2025 2:36 PM

• I think I speak for all of us when I offer my condolences to our brother Mill City Maestros and, well, while we’re at it, Nestor Cortes and those 5 poor baseballs who probably were on their last day before retirement.

  Lake Gage Loons on March 29, 2025 1:58 PM

• TIMELINE REMINDER: MLB gets underway again on Thursday mid-afternoon! Be sure to check who is making opening day rosters, who is injured, and who you might want to pick up on waivers prior to the first wave of lineups locking. And don't forget to set your lineup! Good luck, friends.

  Northern Lights on March 24, 2025 9:51 AM

• i would have forgiven him if he had heads shoulders knees and toes. But alas, memories is all I will have henceforth

  Vestal Virgins on March 18, 2025 7:37 PM

• Dang, Vestal! You pushed Stanton until his elbows fell apart--and then you discarded him like expired meat. He's got a family to feed!

  Northern Lights on March 18, 2025 10:29 AM

• SEASON START REMINDER: The Cubs-Dodgers get underway at 6:10 am EASTERN tomorrow morning. Update your active lineup immediately if you have CHC & LAD players, if you want them to count. There's no retroactive adjustments.

  Northern Lights on March 17, 2025 9:50 PM

• REMINDER: Draft starts in a little less than 90 minutes! 7:30 pm EASTERN. See you there!

  Northern Lights on March 17, 2025 6:06 PM

• Hey y’all! Just a reminder that the draft is tonight at 7:30 PM EST. See you then!

  Lake Gage Loons on March 17, 2025 6:05 AM

• Sorry, in fantasy sports Guinness is considered a PED that can lead to OCB - overly cocky bidding. Urine tests will go out next week.

  Lake Gage Loons on March 11, 2025 11:06 AM

• Thank you, Loons! Maybe I'll come to the draft with a tin or two of Guinness for St. Paddy's. Cheers!

  Northern Lights on March 11, 2025 10:55 AM

• Draft is scheduled! See you all on Monday the 17th at 7:30 PM EST.

  Lake Gage Loons on March 11, 2025 10:39 AM

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