Ottoneu 2019

[A Boy Named Seo]

Yepp, thanks for the reminder.

[Fman99]

OK my ESPN league didn't take, so I think I'm ready to give this Ottoneu thing another look. Someone give me the quick lowdown please.

[smg58]

It's a 12-team league. You will inherit a team -- I think there are openings still for this season, but I'm not the commissioner -- with a maximum total value of $400. Your first task will be to decide which of your players are worth their current salary, and which you'd be better off cutting to the free agent pool. There will be an auction draft of players in the free agent pool in March. (Major-league player salaries all go up $2 at the end of the season, plus individual salaries can be further jacked up by the "arbitration" process, in which your rivals decide which of your players deserve more money. So don't assume only bad players wind up in the free agent pool. Bryan Harper is a current free agent, for example.) You can only spend up to $400, and you can only fill 40 roster slots. Minor leaguers are eligible to be drafted as well. During the season, an owner nominates a player to be added from the free agent pool, and all owners will have two days (I think) to bid on that player. The highest bidder gets the player and pays the cost. Cutting a player during the season gets you half their salary back. Trades are allowed, and can include money as well as players, but to this point they've really been rare in our league.

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[smg58]

Oh and the 8 scoring categories are R, HR, OBP, SLG, K, HR/9, ERA, and WHIP.

[Fman99]

And this is NL only? No wins, no saves? Has the whole world gone mad?

[seawolf17]

No, it's both leagues. It's just that wins and saves are dumb.

[A Boy Named Seo]

It's cool, Fman. I dig it lots.

Sorry, I was lame on the now-dead ESPN league! 3 apps was one too many, it turned out.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'm bailing on the Lunchladies they're up for sale

[A Boy Named Seo]

Boo, Lunchie!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Don't have the energy to finish in 11th place again, much less build em up to finish 6th

[A Boy Named Seo]

I had precisely the right amount of energy to finish 8th and will bring the same this year!

[Fman99]

OK can someone send me a link so I can see the existing teams and know which ones are open? Maybe I could have choices from the rosters being abandoned?

[Fman99]

It's cool, Fman. I dig it lots.

Sorry, I was lame on the now-dead ESPN league! 3 apps was one too many, it turned out.

I was also. I think most of the league was. It didn't help that I hate hate HATE ESPN's fantasy baseball league management product. It's clunky as hell. I've been using Yahoo for my own league for 20 years with much better results.

[Ceetar]

OK can someone send me a link so I can see the existing teams and know which ones are open? Maybe I could have choices from the rosters being abandoned?

https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/209/home


btw folks, keeper deadline is the end of the month! SET YOUR KEEPERS

If you want the Lunchladies you can have them, I need to do an audit and see who else is up.

[metsmarathon]

yeah i just couldn't with the espn league. sorry. it was even more of a burden somehow than the yahoo app/website. and i finished in second, which is like way better than my typical non-ottoneu finish.

but still, obviously, definitely all-in on ottoneu. just need to figure out my final cuts.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Do all of our Ottoneu ships have captains for 2020?

[Ceetar]

no, we're missing three though fman say's he'll take one.

anyone else got fish? othewise I might just toss it into the pond and see what randos we get.

[smg58]

I have a friend I could ask, although he bats for the other team I mean he's a Yankees fan.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I have a friend I could ask, although he bats for the other team I mean he's a Yankees fan.

I whole-heartedly welcome our LGBTQ+ fantasy baseball friends, but fuck Yankees fans.









:)

But seriously, the more the merrier. I sadly have no good candidates for this league.

[Ceetar]

okay, Ottoneu doesn't seem to keep league owner history, so who is Valley Vermins and are you playing this season?

[metsmarathon]

valley vermin is an outsider; a coworker of mine. i'll reach out to him and find out.

[Ceetar]

valley vermin is an outsider; a coworker of mine. i'll reach out to him and find out.

thanks, I haven't had time to dig through my emails to figure it out.

He released a bunch of guys just before the deadline, so figured it was just a missed renewal, but I'd want to offer it up as an option for fman if it is free.

[metsmarathon]

valley vermin is out.

boo.

[Ceetar]

I have a friend I could ask, although he bats for the other team I mean he's a Yankees fan.

Go ahead and ask. He'd be welcome to the Muddy Chickens or the Valley Vermin. He'd get to make a round of cuts for the Chickens (maybe for the Vermin too but that roster WAS pared)

[Fman99]

So I claimed JCL's team and I'm like $70 over the $400 cap. But I have no idea who to cut or how far under $400 I need to go to be able to effectively start 2020 anew.