End of the 2025 Baseball Season megathread

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Hi everyone,

Thanks for another great season of Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball. Congratulations to everyone who won their leagues and congrats again to Free Wily Mo Peña for winning the 2025 OPL. This thread is your source of information for how the end of this season will go up until arbitration starts on October 15.

Today, September 29, 2025: Today is technically the very end of the 2025 season. I’ll run the script that removes pitching points for teams that did not hit IP minimums. I also will figure out why Six Picks isn’t showing the playoff games yet.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 30, 2025: We will roll over to the 2026 season. This will result in positions being updated, trophies appearing in the trophy case, You can start making changes to your league, including changing the scoring system or doing any division realignment. We will do our final stat correction run for 2025. This will give us final standings for the 2025 season - please review and email help@ottoneu.com if you have any questions or concerns!

Thursday, October 2, 2025: Prizes will be distributed for OPL and Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball. You can renew your team in any sport out of your prize balance, or withdraw via check or secure bank transfer. OPL t-shirts and the bat will be in the store.

Monday, October 6, 2025: Year end stuff! Cap penalties and loans will be removed, and salary increases will be applied.

October 15: Arbitration opens until 11:59pm ET on November 14

Please post to the relevant Badge thread if you believe you’ve earned a badge over the past season. There is no real statute of limitations, so feel free to post about any of them. Applying badges is manual and I’m way behind, so please make it as easy as possible on me - if any badge requests are for multiple users, please include the relevant user names, and please link to the relevant Standings or Daily Stats page with as much detail as possible.

Last year had a couple small hiccups but I believe I’ve addressed those issues and we should be good to go this year. Email me at help@ottoneu.com with any questions and once I get Six Picks going, make sure to make your entry for the games Tuesday.

This marks the end of the 14th year of Ottoneu, and I remain thrilled and appreciative of the best fantasy sports community anywhere. Thank you all for your support through the whole year and thanks so much for playing Ottoneu Fantasy Baseball!

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Playoff Six Picks is live.

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4x4 and 5x5 teams that did not hit their minimum IP have had their pitching points removed. Please email help@ottoneu.com if you have any questions about any specific instances of this.

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Two quick updates:

  1. Prizes will be tomorrow, as I had a couple of roto leagues with issues with pitching points not being deducted that I need to examine.
  2. Here’s the latest update for paying with credit cards - please, if you play Ottoneu, read this post.

Thanks!

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League and OPL prizes have been distributed.

With your prizes you can:

  1. Renew your teams across any sport
  2. Withdraw via Paydala ACH bank transfer
  3. Withdraw via mailed check

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Please email help@ottoneu.com with any specific questions.

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We gave far too much in OPL prizes so I have temporarily removed all OPL cash prizes. I should be able to resend OPL prizes later today or early tomorrow.

UPDATE: Any attempts to withdraw prizes that included OPL prizes have been canceled and OPL prizes for 2025 have been re-sent with the correct amounts. A couple of you that attempted to withdraw incorrect OPL prizes are now missing league prizes, but I will be able to resolve that later. Email me at help@ottoneu.com if you have any specific questions. Thank you to the people who pointed out the incorrect OPL prize amounts before attempting to withdraw any money!

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I’m aware of elevated error levels when doing secure bank withdrawals and I’m working with Paydala to figure out what is going on.

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No rush but any idea the timing of the paper checks? I did not get any confirmation when I requested it. Not worried at all just curious how soon I should be expecting it in the mail. Thanks!

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Usually a week or so! I really need to make that process give more feedback.

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All prizes that were incorrectly deleted as part of the OPL prize snafu have been restored.

I’m going to fire up the end of year stuff (salary increases, etc) in about 1 hour.

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This process has started. Last year it took a little over a hour.

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This is all set and I’m through all the major tasks of the 2025 end of season thread I laid out at the start.

I’ll update when I hear anything more about secure bank withdrawals.

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Two quick updates:

  1. Chase DeLauter was incorrectly given a $2 increase this morning. That has been reduced by $1.
  2. Paydala has identified a potential issue with withdrawals and plan on releasing a fix sometime tomorrow. I will update when that is live.
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Hey Niv, do your Canadian cheques go through Canada Post? There’s a mail strike here so just wondering if we should expect delays? Thanks

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Please remind me…..when does trade time open after end of season. Thank you. Love playing Ottoneu. Hope to make a meet up next year.

Scott T

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Trading reopens after arbitration so should be November 15th.

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I assume so? They go through the mail, not UPS or FedEx.