Post by Scott (Boston Padres) on Sept 16, 2013 18:30:35 GMT -5
Guys. I emailed this out earlier tonight. Want to make sure you see it all either here or there.
Hey all,
I hope everyone's doing alright out there. I've heard from some of you recently; others haven't gotten back to me in several months. Guys, I need to know what's going on and at least get a reply in 24-48 hours if I contact you about something needed for the league.
I paid $219 out of my own pocket to renew this league on Fantrax for life. I did that with the verbal support and verbal backing from about half of the league. It was a $15 commitment to secure your spot moving forward. I've received that payment from Drew (Chicago Jays) and two of our new owners Rob (Cleveland Nationals) and Doug (Cincinnati Twins). THANK YOU GUYS! That's it. Everybody else other than Jake Backlund (LA Mets of NY) have told me they're in and I'm just waiting. Jake, please let me know what's going on. You can PayPal me the $14.60 (or round it to $15) to email teachhr8992@comcast.net. If you do use PayPal just make sure you go into Send Money and check "Send money to family or friends," not the other "pay for goods or services" option. If you want to mail me a check, that's fine too. Send it to me at 184 Magnolia Circle, Longmeadow, MA 01106.
If you haven't realized, it's quite a race at the top of the standings. Taylor (SEA Braves) is in front with 133.5. Steve (TEX Giants, who's been up there all year) and Andrew (STL A's) are only 1 point back with 132.5. Adam's COL Rays seem to have fallen off the pace a bit. Top 3 get paid this year. I think we should consider making the payout to maybe the Top 5 or so in future years, keeping more people involved throughout the season. This is something we can vote on in the off-season. Several people have suggested we keep the trade deadline open later into the season as well. This would definitely allow those of us who aren't in the running for payouts to improve our rosters for future seasons.
I am confident I'll have a replacement owner for Detroit Brewers shortly. I just joined Dynasty Sports Empire as one of their new #RedSox insiders and will be posting on their boards and pages about Boston and it's minors affiliates and prospects. I'm guessing one of their Detroit or Milwaukee guys will be interested in our league and the squad Hanny put together this year.
All Fantrax rosters and the ProBoards free agent and prospect claims are all up-to-date. What I'm not sure about is everybody's ProBoards roster (with salaries/contracts) and how that matches up to each team's Fantrax roster page. We'll have to take a close look at these in the offseason.
Anything else I can do to make this league better, please let me know. Has anyone tried out the Fantrax beta mobile app? It's ok for now. Shows standings, rosters, and allows lineup changes. We're not using it for add/drops since I process all those and we have our FA blind bidding system, but that functionality is there also. They're working on improving it during the football season and it should be better by next baseball season.
I've asked before and I'll ask again. If you're not on Twitter, it would be great if you do register a handle. I'm trying to get the word out and make Diamond Duos a cool entity in the fantasy stratosphere. I'll be able to do that a little via Dynasty Sports Empire, but I also need your help. Anytime I send out a Tweet from Diamond Duos, if you're a Follower then you can retweet it out to all of your followers too. There'll be some fun, personal stuff included too.
That's all for now. I only wanted this to be a quick check-in and I've already spent 15-20 minutes on this email. Get back to me as soon as you can with any comments, feedback, questions, etc. Let's keep posting on the ProBoards too!!
Thanks,
Scott
PS - Lastly, who's in for Spring Training in March? Long weekend in Florida - likely Tampa area but may head over to left coast for a Nats game. Right now I know Steve is interested since he lives down there and Brett told me has was interested in heading down, but I don't have yays from anyone else. I'm hoping to book my flights in the next couple of weeks since Southwest has opened up itineraries into April. Looking at 2nd or 3rd weekend in March - specific one not determined yet.
Hey all,
I hope everyone's doing alright out there. I've heard from some of you recently; others haven't gotten back to me in several months. Guys, I need to know what's going on and at least get a reply in 24-48 hours if I contact you about something needed for the league.
I paid $219 out of my own pocket to renew this league on Fantrax for life. I did that with the verbal support and verbal backing from about half of the league. It was a $15 commitment to secure your spot moving forward. I've received that payment from Drew (Chicago Jays) and two of our new owners Rob (Cleveland Nationals) and Doug (Cincinnati Twins). THANK YOU GUYS! That's it. Everybody else other than Jake Backlund (LA Mets of NY) have told me they're in and I'm just waiting. Jake, please let me know what's going on. You can PayPal me the $14.60 (or round it to $15) to email teachhr8992@comcast.net. If you do use PayPal just make sure you go into Send Money and check "Send money to family or friends," not the other "pay for goods or services" option. If you want to mail me a check, that's fine too. Send it to me at 184 Magnolia Circle, Longmeadow, MA 01106.
If you haven't realized, it's quite a race at the top of the standings. Taylor (SEA Braves) is in front with 133.5. Steve (TEX Giants, who's been up there all year) and Andrew (STL A's) are only 1 point back with 132.5. Adam's COL Rays seem to have fallen off the pace a bit. Top 3 get paid this year. I think we should consider making the payout to maybe the Top 5 or so in future years, keeping more people involved throughout the season. This is something we can vote on in the off-season. Several people have suggested we keep the trade deadline open later into the season as well. This would definitely allow those of us who aren't in the running for payouts to improve our rosters for future seasons.
I am confident I'll have a replacement owner for Detroit Brewers shortly. I just joined Dynasty Sports Empire as one of their new #RedSox insiders and will be posting on their boards and pages about Boston and it's minors affiliates and prospects. I'm guessing one of their Detroit or Milwaukee guys will be interested in our league and the squad Hanny put together this year.
All Fantrax rosters and the ProBoards free agent and prospect claims are all up-to-date. What I'm not sure about is everybody's ProBoards roster (with salaries/contracts) and how that matches up to each team's Fantrax roster page. We'll have to take a close look at these in the offseason.
Anything else I can do to make this league better, please let me know. Has anyone tried out the Fantrax beta mobile app? It's ok for now. Shows standings, rosters, and allows lineup changes. We're not using it for add/drops since I process all those and we have our FA blind bidding system, but that functionality is there also. They're working on improving it during the football season and it should be better by next baseball season.
I've asked before and I'll ask again. If you're not on Twitter, it would be great if you do register a handle. I'm trying to get the word out and make Diamond Duos a cool entity in the fantasy stratosphere. I'll be able to do that a little via Dynasty Sports Empire, but I also need your help. Anytime I send out a Tweet from Diamond Duos, if you're a Follower then you can retweet it out to all of your followers too. There'll be some fun, personal stuff included too.
That's all for now. I only wanted this to be a quick check-in and I've already spent 15-20 minutes on this email. Get back to me as soon as you can with any comments, feedback, questions, etc. Let's keep posting on the ProBoards too!!
Thanks,
Scott
PS - Lastly, who's in for Spring Training in March? Long weekend in Florida - likely Tampa area but may head over to left coast for a Nats game. Right now I know Steve is interested since he lives down there and Brett told me has was interested in heading down, but I don't have yays from anyone else. I'm hoping to book my flights in the next couple of weeks since Southwest has opened up itineraries into April. Looking at 2nd or 3rd weekend in March - specific one not determined yet.