Ottoneu 2016

[metsmarathon]

just thought I'd start up a new thread for the next season, as we're basically all done with the last one, having concluded salary arbitrations.

as has been mentioned on the otto board, my one friend the philly phan, hungrypup, is dropping out. it seems he can't pay enough attention to the league during the week to remain competitive (though it was mostly his drafting and keeping that sunk him), and is dropping out.

I have another friend (a mets fan in easton assassins) whose uncle (not sure if he's a mets fan) is interested in joining.

any objections? any other takers? any other dirty no-good dropouts?

I'm looking forward to all the interesting keeper decisions that come down the road. I'm also still trying to figure out why anyone would've put arbitration dollars on ricky weeks. honestly.... I.. just don't get it.

[TransMonk]

If we need another owner, I say bring him aboard!

Not for nothing, I accidentally gave an arb raise to Jenrry Mejia last month. I didn't mean to, but didn't see a way to correct the error once completed (granted, I didn't look horribly hard). Maybe the same thing happened to Weeks.

[metsmarathon]

once you award a dollar, as long as the deadline hasn't passed, you just change the $1 to a $0 on the respective team page, and reassign your dollar as you please.

[TransMonk]

Poop. Like I said, I didn't look that hard...I actually may not have noticed until after the deadline had passed.

It was only a dollar.

[metsmarathon]

oops. it was jj hardy, not rickie weeks.

a dollar on mejia is probably better placed than a dollar on hardy. though the hardy dollar was mostly done to avoid actually penalizing the receiving team, I'm guessing.

[Ceetar]

metsmarathon wrote: just thought I'd start up a new thread for the next season, as we're basically all done with the last one, having concluded salary arbitrations. as has been mentioned on the otto board, my one friend the philly phan, hungrypup, is dropping out. it seems he can't pay enough attention to the league during the week to remain competitive (though it was mostly his drafting and keeping that sunk him), and is dropping out. I have another friend (a mets fan in easton assassins) whose uncle (not sure if he's a mets fan) is interested in joining. any objections? any other takers? any other dirty no-good dropouts? I'm looking forward to all the interesting keeper decisions that come down the road. I'm also still trying to figure out why anyone would've put arbitration dollars on ricky weeks. honestly.... I.. just don't get it.

oops, yeah, I got the uncle's email address and then promptly forgot to compose and send the invite email.

[metsmarathon]

so... ownership straightened out yet...?

[Ceetar]

metsmarathon wrote: so... ownership straightened out yet...?

i think so

[metsmarathon]

We really need to have this done before the keeper deadline. Do we need to find a different replacement owner?

[nymr83]

i'll do it if you need the team

[Ceetar]

Nymr83 wrote: i'll do it if you need the team

The Easton assassins owner referred someone, who initially responded to my email but hasn't responded to my last two.

If he doesn't get back to me by early next week he can lose his claim to you as long as you can make the Wednesday March 23rd at 8:30 PM draft time? It'll be a couple of hours to draft from there.


I think I might set a hard end time for the draft, sometimes a team or two stays up late putting in $1 claims on scrubs/prospects to round out their team when everyone else is asleep. Seems like we should try to limit that a little bit.

[metsmarathon]

I disapprove of the hard end cap

[Ceetar]

metsmarathon wrote: I disapprove of the hard end cap

anyone else?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'd like to hear mm's reasoning because I haven't thought it through. It sounds like an okay idea.

[metsmarathon]

For one, it rewards anyone dedicated, we, stoopid, enough to stay up till the end of the draft for the slim pickins that remain. And two, there are a bunch of teams in desperate need of roster overhauls that could benefit from such dreg-rankings. And three, who's to say we'd be all the way down to those players of such inconsequence that most of the league has no interest in trying to obtain them by the time the time limit kicked in? And finally, if the players are of such trivial nature than it shouldn't matter if the harder working owners get them, should it?

The only real argument for it is that someone willing to foolishly put more time into their team might be at as light competitive advantage. But isn't that kindof the point...?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I guess. My objection I suppose is a matter of taste. I just find bidding guys up with seconds to decide is where the fun is, coming in afterward and leisurely scooping up the dregs unopposed, eh.

[Ceetar]

metsmarathon wrote: The only real argument for it is that someone willing to foolishly put more time into their team might be at as light competitive advantage. But isn't that kindof the point...?

i admit this somewhat comes from a laziness standpoint, but my thought was that the draft is already 2-3 hours long which is pushing the bounds for 'casual competitiveness' imo.

But on the other end of it, I'm not sure there is necessarily a competitive advantage to grabbing a bunch of $1 gambles. You probably end up committing to players who probably suck longer, have less room for spring pickups, and do have to pay to cut these scrubs later. It's a lot like the Rule 5 draft.



We've got our 12th owner, I just have to figure out how to add him via the UI which is just oh so user friendly. I either have to wait for a database propagation or he needs to link his fangraphs account and pay but he can't do that until he has a team? it's confusing. i'm looking into it.

[smg58]

I was under the impression that the best bargain pickups don't materialize until after the season starts anyway, but I could be wrong about that.

I got a warning today that my registration was about to expire, and I'm thinking I might not be the only one. So you all might want to check to make sure your registration doesn't expire before draft day and before you even realize it.

[Ceetar]

smg58 wrote: I was under the impression that the best bargain pickups don't materialize until after the season starts anyway, but I could be wrong about that. I got a warning today that my registration was about to expire, and I'm thinking I might not be the only one. So you all might want to check to make sure your registration doesn't expire before draft day and before you even realize it.

Yes I believe this is how we accidentally got two Snukes or something last year during the draft.

[metsmarathon]

so... uh... did our commish forget to re-up his team?

[Ceetar]

metsmarathon wrote: so... uh... did our commish forget to re-up his team?

yes. to be fair, I only got one warning email and have been a little preoccupied irl.

[TransMonk]

Is this our Snukes owner...or just a coincidence?

[Ceetar]

is Snukes, yes.

[Ceetar]

Wednesday night. be prompt.

I'll leave the auction 'active' all night even after people drop off, but will close it as soon as I get to a computer in the morning.

I think, if you want, you can start tossing guys onto your watchlist for nomination purposes if you click into the draft room. I can't guarantee the software will save it between now and then if you logout of ottoneu, but maybe.

[smg58]

I'll be there. It might not receive my full attention for as long as my daughter chooses to remain awake, but I have nine unfilled spots and not a whole lot of money to spend so I can probably afford to wait on the bidding.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Tryna cram for this thing but can't figure out Fangraphs for the life of me.

I need the part where they tell me how much to bid on each guy, and whether he's hurt or won't play, and I could give a flying fuck for the rest of it. Where is that?

[TransMonk]

I've never seen where Fangraphs gives potential bid amounts. They do give a FPTS score, which I assume is a relative value, but doesn't really translate to how we score or what our budget is.



I wish they would show me which players have retired because their club won't let their home-schooled kid hang out with the team all season.

[Ceetar]

http://www.fangraphs.com/auctiontool.aspx

[ashie62]

Thank you Ceets.

[ashie62]

My pick of A.J. Pollock failed, badly.