How many Ottoneu managers out there woke up Saturday morning to sadly see their favorite players suddenly more expensive? Or maybe you stayed up Friday night to check in, despite the risk of nightmares caused by seeing your $5 Nick Kurtz now voted off your roster? Yes, Ottoneu Arbitration has come to an end and all those dollars are locked and all those vote offs are complete. The good news is, that also means the off-season is really underway and you can start making trades. But before we walk away from arbitration, let’s take a look at what happened.

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Since the end of the season, I have been looking at players whose first– and second-halves were starkly different based on either points per game or points per inning pitched. We’ve covered one pitcher going each direction and a hitter who fell off a cliff, so today we turn our attention to a bat that broke out in the second half: Daylen Lile.

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Calling people losers seems unkind, but they did, in fact, lose positional eligibility. Is there a better word to use? Position Eligibility Forfeiters? Decliners? I dunno. I am rolling with losers. It was just yesterday that we looked at players who gained positions in 2025; today we turn our attention to players who lost eligibility.

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Every year, some player gains or loses eligibility and I totally miss it. Sometimes it’s because I didn’t have that player on any of my rosters and so I never noticed when they gained a new position. Sometimes it’s because I had a guy locked into a position this year and didn’t realize they weren’t playing their for their real team. To make sure I am caught up, I spend a little time pulling a positional eligibility change report – a list of all players who gained or lost a position (or both) in 2025.

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Over the course of the season, I wrote 17 Ottoneu Hot or Cold Right Now articles. These articles, which Lucas Kelly and I tried to get out weekly, cover players who are being added, being dropped, being auctioned or just performing particularly well or particularly poorly. The goal is to analyze why the player is Hot or Cold at the moment and offer advice on what you should do. I have been writing these for a number of years now, but have never written a recap. That changes today.

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Over the last couple of weeks, I wrote about 1st and 2nd half splits, looking at one big gainer (Mike Burrows) and one big faller (Kodai Senga). Today, I turn my attention to the plate, with a first look at a hitter who fell off.

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I hate reviewing these bold predictions because, by their very nature, bold predictions are often wrong and so it is kind of depressing to go back and see just how wrong I was. I said as much when I wrote my bold predictions in March, and noted that my hope was they would be useful, even if wrong:

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Last week, I wrote about Mike Burrows, as he was the single largest gainer in Ottoneu FanGraphs points per IP between the first and second halves of the season, among pitchers with at least 30 IP as a starter in both halves. Today, I wanted to look at that same list and cover the pitcher who was the single largest faller among that same population. Except, I am not going to.

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Happy Arbitration Day, to those who celebrate! Today is the day Ottoneu Arbitration opens, both for vote off leagues and allocation leagues. If you are new to Ottoneu and not familiar with arbitration, there is a ton of information here – a quick Google search for “FanGraphs Ottoneu Arbitration” will bring up a decent number of results, but – before we get to the All Stars mentioned in the title – here are some of the best links.

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Ottoneu points leagues aren’t the same as 4×4 or 5×5. But there’s a subtle difference between H2H and season-long points leagues, as well. In season-long leagues, you have limits on games played for each position and innings pitched by your pitchers. That has relatively limited impact on bats, but it could theoretically impact the value of pitchers pretty significantly.

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