Ceetar

seawolf17 wrote: Is it weird that I'd rather just cut the team than have a rando? I kind of like just playing against y'all. to be fair we're only at 7/12 Crane Poolers at the moment anyway. well, 7/11. I don't think it's a big deal if no one claims the team, but it'd be nice if _someone_ played. At the very least make the team more competitive for next year because if we just go without, it'll be tough to have someone join with an empty team against all our keepers.

There's an "available owners" list on Ottoneu of players looking for a league so I'll probably just grab someone randomly. I should briefly screen them though. Sample questions? Roger Clemens is ____? The ___ will win the World Series. Captain America's real name is _____?

metsmarathon wrote: so... um... do we have a replacement owner for initech yet? no. any ideas? It's probably not the end of the world if we go with 11. Worked for Spinal Tap. or someone random might claim.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Having trouble getting in. Halp! (Also, #TeamThursday) Thursday. What's your username? I'll try adding you back. otherwise I can force abandon the team and you can 'claim' it. Same for Vic if he wants in, otherwise i might have a line on another maybe?

This week snuck up on me. I feel like I had at least 40 more hours of sleep that I expected before... oh right. Can someone ping Vic? I don't think I have external contact for him and if he doesn't want to play I should probably find someone else.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Always easier to push up than back! The future is unlimited!! I'll decide/email after lunch when/if Vic and Deathship get back to me and we actually have full 12?

Actually, I just tabulated all the responses I got and it does seem like Thursday is better, though I worry non-responders might not be good for that date and are just lazy about telling me and could lead to a hissy fit.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: still prefer Thursday! but lmk asap. I'll be in the sky at 9 Wednesday, but could wi-fi if necessary at least to start. I've gotten blowback on both Thursday and Tuesday and I'm not particularly hopeful blowing it all up and trying to find a new convenient date. We could try to find a sitter maybe? Of course, we still need these last two teams to confirm. Vic?

metsmarathon wrote: so what's happening here? is vic taking over initech, or GGLDM? i'm so confused! and when is our draft anyways? --- also worth noting is that when you cut a player, you are responsible for 50% of his salary until someone else picks him up, or until the end of the season. so if you are taking over the deathship, and you were to, for whatever reason, cut $63 Mike Trout, you'd still be on the hook for $32 until he joined another team. GGLDM is supposed to be renewing but hasn't gotten to me. Vic is hopefully taking over initech our draft is 70% Wednesday, 30% chance of Thursday.

Vic Sage wrote: all i've ever played is the free Yahoo fantasy leagues, so i have no idea what i'm supposed to do. I've never actually participated in an auction-style draft. Do i pay actual money? how much? when? to whom? what are the rules of the draft and the league? When? Where? Who? How? and sometimes why? It's hard for me to tell as I already have an account. You need a fangraphs account, and then a $10 Ottoneu league purchase. https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com Technically the spot isn't "open" yet so I'm not entirely sure how it works to sign up without a league ,or if you just pick a league and I pull you in. I can probably abandon the team but I can't "reserve" it I don't think. (maybe create a fangraphs account and let me know what it is first and we'll see if that works?) Auction draft is pretty simple. Basically you've got a $400 salary cap and 40 players. at 9pm on either teh 22nd or the 23rd we take turns nominating a player from the pool and it's open season on people clicking +$1 or putting in a price. after 10 seconds of no activity, high bid gets the player. It's a keeper league so if you super overpay for a player you're going to end up cutting him next season probably, and you want to reserve money/spots for in-season chinese/blind auctions. Scoring categories are (OBP, SLG, HR, R and ERA, WHIP, HR/9, K) You get 12 points for leading one of the categories, 11 points for being second, etc. 12 person rotisserie style league.

I read this one, and enjoyed it. I don't think I saw the film but I can't remember now.

seawolf17 wrote: As long as we start no earlier than 9, I can do just about any night that week. I generally spend 8-9 playing Hearthstone under a blanket in my daughter's room on my phone, so no worries.

Yeah.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Vic Sage wrote: Any way i can buy into the league this year? Sorry, Vic Sage... I missed him asking. or blanked it out. Don't mind me, I've barely eaten or slept in a week. Initech is the team that's being taken over. Work cut out for you, but at least the roster's trim. https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/209/team?team=1713

TransMonk wrote: It looks like LWFS's team has been re-assigned...I'm guessing to an interloper. GULP! he said he'd renew and I'll manually add him back to the team when he does. I booted the interloper, well, one, is there another? doesn't matter. I'll boot him too. John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I sent the bat-signal to Radd, he wanted in Drawing a blank on who Radd is, but sign up and gimme user name!

There's an opening! Take over an Ottoneu team. Join us! have fun! check in to the Ottoneu 2017 thread in the fantasy forum if you're interested.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Thanks for looking into this for me. I can do almost any evening but the 22nd. PS, LWFS's team was not renewed, Ottonue tells me I sent him and the other guy direct emails in regards to that. If I dont' hear from either of them by the time I get to work tomorrow and settle in, gonna put out feelers for replacements. There's an Ottoneu slack group too, might poke my head in and see if there are people around that might want to do a 'practice' auction as a stand-in in case we can't get everyone. I figure there must be people out there with time that don't mind seeing what players go for in prep for their own auctions?

oof. we can try moving I guess? I emailed, but everyone give me avail for 21st/23rd and if that doesn't work either.. I dunno, we might have to see if we can find some stand-in auctioners.

Frayed Knot wrote: how does stuff like that even happen. And who discovered it? The accountants? Duplicate envelopes is apparently the answer -- Dunaway & Beatty were handed a copy of the Emma Stone - Best Actress card and saw 'LA LA LAND' mentioned. But if the idea is to keep everyone in the dark about the winner -- I guess so as to maintain 'The Big Reveal' even among the presenters -- it's obvious that someone had to know and it seems odd that they'd keep a couple of the accountants backstage there just in case something that couldn't possibly happen actually happens. And if someone is going to know anyway then you might as well clue the presenters in before they go out there just to avoid something like this. They are actors after all and so you figure they can fake surprise as well as anyone. I'm sure they're ultimately fine with the 'any press is good press' angle of it. Otherwise couldn't they have just said nothing and let the 'wrong' film win and move on?

oh look, one I've actually seen. I need to watch this a few dozen more times to really get the full effect, but I thought it was fine. a little less good than Nemo, but maybe I'll pick up on all the subtle jokes that Nemo had once I watch it more. Wanted more tank fish. It was a little more bumbling comedy than quest though. "they're over here! *goes there* no, now they're over there were you just were!"

smg58 wrote: Ceetar wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I got a "pay up" message this morning. It said 2 weeks till they auction it off. SMG, Marathon, and mgmlax85 too are up this week. I just renewed mine. Glad I saw that here. They didn't send me anything. Well, did you get any of _MY_ emails reminding you? ;-)

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I got a "pay up" message this morning. It said 2 weeks till they auction it off. SMG, Marathon, and mgmlax85 too are up this week. I just renewed mine.

TransMonk wrote: I'll do the draft night duties. We'll need to make sure everyone has paid their dues and such before hand. I believe that has caused issues in the past. Thanks, I'll let you know if/when. I'd be pretty surprised if the baby isn't here by then, but maybe everyone will be happily asleep at 9? yes. I'll email blast more about that after today's keeper deadline. Looks like we're at 10/12 still need to renew, including me.

Sometimes I just want to do this by chinese auction and do a few rounds.

hey, so, anyone feel like being an alternate for running the draft? (3/22, 9pm) This just means clicking the 'start draft' button on time once everyone has shown up (or grace period), and pausing if there are issues. My second child is due on 3/15. There's a reasonable chance that I'm not super available on any given day in March with no warning whatsoever.