And yes, I know the apostrophe is incorrect. It is part of the charm!
I believe 85 people have put in a team name or in some way shown interest. I gave everyone a number 1-85 and will go to random.org and generate 11 random numbers 1-85 to pick out some user names now.
Alright here are the users who are going to be in this league. Chad and I are going to co-manage team 0.
@WALLACHN- team 8
@couthcommander - team 7
@sampriehs - team 6
@afvoo - team 10
@johnjuettner - team 9
@rileyjon21 - team 4
@ChrisHurst - team 2
@mrdog61 - team 1
@dickfuld - team 3
@jfschill - team 5
@aplethora - team 11
I used random.org to generate a random sequence of numbers from 1 to 11 to pick teams.
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I appreciate every single person who responded to this thread for taking the time to consider this thing we’re trying out. You can track our league and if we need replacement managers, I have a deep bench to pull from.
For anyone not picked, please let us know on the forums if you’d like to see focused updates or have any other questions about this experiment.
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Excited to follow along!
I didn’t throw my name in the pot, though I was very interested - have way too many leagues as-is. But I would definitely be interested in any sort of updates or something. Not sure what form that would take, but the concept is very intriguing to me and I’d love to try to follow along
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A quick note here:
I’ve already made some pretty significant changes to how players are distributed using this model, and it is resulting in a much more balanced set of teams without anyone left far behind. I know that is little solace to the managers who got stuck with teams that spent under $300 in Random League 10, but over the course of the summer I’ll share some other example distributions ahead of making this an option for starting a new league or replacing a league’s annual draft in 2027.
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This league’s Opening Day is tomorrow, after a 5-ish week “pre-season”.
We have had something like 400 transactions and 36 trades since we got going.
The outlook amongst the current managers is generally positive. I’ve already tweaked some of the “random” player distribution stuff to be a bit more balanced in terms of value, which is the main negative feedback so far. The action and player movement and starting with a team you aren’t attached to has all been very fun and also very eye-opening.
The other new tech from this league is this: now you can start a league and have an Opening Day on some arbitrary date after MLB’s Opening Day. No stats and no lineups until your league’s Opening Day, if you want to, say, skip a MLB abroad series or if you started your league late but still want a pre-season.
If anyone wants to start a late league and use either of these features, please email help@ottoneu.com
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I’ve updated one more thing for leagues that start after MLB’s Opening Day - projected games and innings now are computed using the progress of the MLB season since your league’s Opening Day. This update is reflected across the Random League and will show up for any leagues that start late this year.
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