# End of the 2023 baseball season megathread
**URL:** https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2023-baseball-season-megathread/13347
**Category:** Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball
**Created:** [October 3, 2023, 2:40am UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2023-baseball-season-megathread/13347 "2023-10-03T02:40:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2023, 2:40am UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2023-baseball-season-megathread/13347/1 "2023-10-03T02:40:40Z")
Hey everyone,
Thanks for completing another year of Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball! Congrats to everyone who won their leagues and special congrats to the winner of [the 2023 OPL](https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/opl/scores/playoffs). Now is the time to put your claim in for [any badges you earned](https://community.ottoneu.com/c/ottoneu-fantasy/earn-badges/40) this season.
Here is what to expect over the next few days.
**Tuesday, October 3:** We will roll over to the 2024 season. This means league settings that were not available during the 2023 regular season will become available, in case there are any big changes you may want to make. This also means positions will update and trophies will be added to trophy cases. I will make a final determination on how we are [going to handle the Mets-Marlins suspended game](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/marlins-mets-suspended-game-and-end-of-the-2023-season/13336/3), though the status quo with the stats from the top of the 9th inning of the suspended game counting seems to be the direction we are headed. I’ll also remove any pitching points from teams that did not hit minimum innings pitched.
**Thursday, October 5:** The OPL prize tracker will be finalized and prizes will become available to anyone who qualifies from the 2023 OPL.
**Monday, October 9:** Prizes will be logged in the database and you’ll be able to see what your prize total looks like across all your teams. Withdrawal will be made available at a future date once that process is fully tested with our new payment processor.
**Tuesday, October 10:** Cap penalties will be removed, loans will be removed, and default salary increases will be added to player’s salaries.
**Sunday, 10/15:** Arbitration opens up.
[Last year](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2022-baseball-season-megathread/12158) went relatively smoothly and I hope to recreate that experience this year.
Thanks again for supporting Ottoneu Fantasy Sports! Make sure to play [Playoff Six Picks](https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/sixpicks/). Email [help@ottoneu.com](mailto:help@ottoneu.com) with any questions.
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2023-baseball-season-megathread/13347/2 "2023-10-03T02:42:22Z")
Here is the player universe as of the last day of the 2023 season.
> **[player\_universe.csv](https://www.dropbox.com/s/l3hegihwb0dt6xq/player_universe.csv?dl=0)**
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> Shared with Dropbox
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2023-baseball-season-megathread/13347/3 "2023-10-03T13:21:07Z")
As of today, MLB still has the Marlins stats from [the top of the 9th inning of their suspended game](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/marlins-mets-suspended-game-and-end-of-the-2023-season/13336/5) as official stats. The game remains suspended and without a final result.
We will consider all these stats official and will finalize our standings for the 2023 season with these stats included.
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2023-baseball-season-megathread/13347/4 "2023-10-04T13:04:46Z")
Teams in 4x4 leagues that did not hit IP minimums have had their pitching points removed.
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### Author:  [@emptyflight](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/emptyflight)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2023-baseball-season-megathread/13347/5 "2023-10-07T21:53:01Z")
I want to give a big shout out to Niv and say thanks for another amazing Ottoneu season. We got mock drafts now!
But specifically the way all of the payment processor adversity has been handled, nothing but complete transparency. I was initially a bit nervous about an unknown company but honestly PayPal hasn’t always been the most reliable and the leaders at Paydala are experienced in the industry. Sounds to me like Paydala is doing everything they can to work with Ottoneu as an actual client and it seems like it’ll be a great processor moving forward. It’s always fun to claim prizes right away but hey it is what it is, I’m looking forward to finally having enough prizes to take some home after renewing league entry fees lol.
Anyways, pumped to keep playing and sharing Ottoneu love with everyone I know, it’s the best fantasy sports platform around and wish I could start a new league every year!
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2023-baseball-season-megathread/13347/6 "2023-10-11T02:20:30Z")
First off, thanks so much for the kind words @emptyflight and the support everyone gave that post. It really does help a lot, and I really appreciate it.
As you may have noticed, I missed a couple of my self-imposed deadlines. Updated timeline as follows:
**Thursday, October 12** : Prizes will be logged in the database and displayed to anyone who earned a baseball or OPL cash prize this year. They will not be available for withdrawal immediately, and I will share a timeline for that once we have some more progress with Paydala.
**Friday, October 13** : Cap penalties removed, loans removed, salary increases.
**Sunday, October 15** : Arbitration starts
I’m also way behind on doling out badges, so you should definitely go post in any threads where you earned one!
> **[Ottoneu Badges](https://community.ottoneu.com/c/ottoneu-fantasy/earn-badges/40)**
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> We are rolling out all new Ottoneu achievement badges!
Again, I deeply appreciate everyone’s patience and continued support of Ottoneu Fantasy Sports. I am confident we will have everything set ahead of arbitration.
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2023-baseball-season-megathread/13347/7 "2023-10-12T01:56:14Z")
Gonna flip some stuff around:
**Thursday, October 12** : Cap penalties removed, loans removed, salaries given the default increase
Prizes will be logged in the database once we have some clarity on our payment processor’s timeline for getting us live.
Thanks again everyone.
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2023-baseball-season-megathread/13347/8 "2023-10-12T13:27:38Z")
End of year stuff is being kicked off now. I will update when it is complete.
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2023-baseball-season-megathread/13347/9 "2023-10-12T16:20:31Z")
This is done. The system just applied 232,739 salary increases, the most ever.
I’ll have an update on prizes once I know more about our options on how to distribute them. Arbitration begins in 3 days!
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2023, 4:40am UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/end-of-the-2023-baseball-season-megathread/13347/10 "2023-10-18T04:40:01Z")
Prize updates will be over here going forward:
> [@Payment Updates](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/payment-updates/13220/20):
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> Our integration with Paydala is now live. Please renew your football and basketball teams by October 31, 2023. In order to be able to make payments, you will need to allow access to your device’s location, so we know what state you are in for compliance purposes. The payment process then will ask for an email and/or phone number in order to allow you to verify yourself for future payments. It may go a little slow the first time you try to pay, but be patient and you’ll have your team extended i…