Ottoneu

[Ceetar]

Fman99 wrote: Hey is this league NL only or AL/NL?

NL/AL/AAA/AA/A/retirees/etc. (yes, you can get Mike Piazza if you want)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

No, really?I thought this was NL only

[Ceetar]

Nah, ottoneu doesn't offer that type of flexibility.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Well had I done any preparation it's all gone to shit now.

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Well had I done any preparation it's all gone to shit now.

Jose Bautista: good.

Verlander: good

Ivan Nova: scrub

Alex Rodriguez: injury prone and washed up.

Miguel Cabrera often number 1 pick overall.

(I did no prep either. I recommend everyone load up a Yahoo or ESPN or mlb or something preranking grid for the sake of knowing the top players.)

[metsmarathon]

deathship... where are you...?

[Fman99]

I bailed. Too slow, too painful. Good luck all.

[Ceetar]

Fman99 wrote: I bailed. Too slow, too painful. Good luck all.

you gonna fill your roster tomorrow?

[metsmarathon]

wuss

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I AM BOOING YOU AS HARD AS I CAN

[smg58]

Fman99 wrote: I bailed. Too slow, too painful. Good luck all.

Don't panic. There's still plenty of talent available, and you'll be at a marked spending advantage. Things did start to move more quickly towards the end as spending money started to dry up, but I don't think anybody has more than 12 or 13 players yet. I believe we're continuing on Monday (or was it Tuesday?), and you can probably get some good deals on players (especially pitchers).

[Ceetar]

Tuesday at like 8:30 again I think we said.

We're most of the way there. We'll have a couple of low-end bidding wars to come, and then probably a lot of nominating guys for $1 and everyone else passing to fill out the roster.

[Guest Muddy Chicken]

Hello! Just wanted to introduce myself to the forum. I'm a friend of metsmarathon and am pretty pumped for this league. The draft last night, although slow, was quite fun.

I'm not a Met's fan, but I do hate the Yankees. That's just as good, right?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

[Nods vigorously]

[TransMonk]

Muddy Chicken wrote: Hello! Just wanted to introduce myself to the forum. I'm a friend of metsmarathon and am pretty pumped for this league. The draft last night, although slow, was quite fun. I'm not a Met's fan, but I do hate the Yankees. That's just as good, right?

Welcome! Are you a Sox fan? I think the price you paid for David Ortiz was one of the best values of the night.

[Guest Muddy Chicken]

Yeah, I'm a big sox fan. I was a little bummed when pedroia went out of my price range, but was pumped when I got Big Papi at a discount.

[metsmarathon]

welcome abordick!

[smg58]

8:30 tonight? Is FMan back in, and if not, are his players going back on the market?

[Ceetar]

smg58 wrote: 8:30 tonight? Is FMan back in, and if not, are his players going back on the market?

shoved a replacement player in there. As long as he can make the draft. Guy's clearly going to be at a disadvantage since we already drafted Duda, but I imagine he can cobble together a non-embarrassing team.

8:45 I think I said in the email. Clearly if everyone's there we can start. If anyone thinks they are going to be late, or just doesn't care if we start without them? (I mean, you'll only miss a couple of players, many of you don't really need that many)

[metsmarathon]

i'm flying solo with minimm tonight. i'm hoping to get him to bed in time for the draft, and hte 8:45 start helps.

if i'm not there, start without me.

i'm very nervous about hte dynamic hte new player will bring, flush with fman's cash.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Who is this new fellow? My suggestion would be to draft a shitty team for FMan so he can reap the shame of having pussied out of a "keeper" league in 15 minutes.

[Ceetar]

just some guy to ostracize. Ottoneu seems to be anti-having less than 12. If we really don't like the guy we can throw him back, but the team would then be available for anyone to claim again.

the auction shouldn't b e that big a deal. He's flush with cash but he's not gonna have access to like the top 150 guys or so either.

[metsmarathon]

the problem is that, flush with cash, he can take all teh remaining good players, quash any bargains, and snatch any prospect. he can afford to outbid all of us on anyone, and there's nothing to lose.

mostly though, it's just that its an entirely different variable that's being thrown into the draft equation. he's playing with a different set of rules than the rest of us. not that it's his fault or that there's anything we can do about it, or that it will ultimately matter. hell, i'm sure there are people out there who draft with exactly this strategy - get a few stars and disappear, let everybody overpay for the top of the market, and then load up for bear on the bargains.

it causes me great uncertainty. and that i do not like. i'm going to have a hard enough time sneaking bargains pas the lot of you all. but a guy with a full wallet - sheesh!

[TransMonk]

metsmarathon wrote: i'm going to have a hard enough time sneaking bargains pas the lot of you all. but a guy with a full wallet - sheesh!

This. But whatevs.

I blame Fman and his lack of patience.

[Ceetar]

TransMonk wrote: i'm going to have a hard enough time sneaking bargains pas the lot of you all. but a guy with a full wallet - sheesh! This. But whatevs. I blame Fman and his lack of patience.

He hasn't gotten back to me. I mean, if you we think it's really better we can just boot him at 8:30, release his players, let Fman's team just be unqualified all season until someone picks it up again.

Maybe that's the way to go.

[metsmarathon]

run a poll, perchance?

[TransMonk]

Personally, if someone wants to pick up the abondoned team, I would rather they do it once the rest of us have our rosters in order. I understand that this would put this potential GM at a severe disadvantage, but I have a feeling that having the second half of a draft/auction with one GM having nearly all of their cash means that it is going to be really hard for the other 11 GMs to find value for the small amount of cash that we have left.

I guess I would rather have it be extremely hard for one person than somewhat hard for 11 people.

Just my opinion. I'm up for anything.

[metsmarathon]

yeah. it would be different if someone had chosen to run their draft that way. i think the best would be to retain fman's players for whoever picks up his team after the conclusion of the draft.

[Ceetar]

metsmarathon wrote: yeah. it would be different if someone had chosen to run their draft that way. i think the best would be to retain fman's players for whoever picks up his team after the conclusion of the draft.

So Jason Bay and Hanley Ramirez. just so we're clear what this guy gets. :-D

[Ceetar]

I'm feeling a little out of it, so if It's like 8:45 and I'm nowhere to be found/non responsive...

Edited March 27, 2012 by Guest