Ottoneu Arbitration Omnibus

For those rare few of you who follow me personally, you may have noticed that I’ve written an ottoneu topic about once a week. This is, in fact, by design. Presently, the topic du jour is “arbitration,” which ends on Friday, November 14.

However, I appear to have exhausted all topics related to arbitration – at least those that interest me. Fortunately, I am a fan of omnibuses (omnibi?), and it seems like the perfect time to create one for ottoneu arbitration. If you still need to make or tinker with your arbitration choices, the following content should prove educational.

There are two systems of arbitration: voting and allocation. Most leagues use allocations. An asterisk indicates that the article is intending for voting leagues. I’ve organized the omnibus into sections: intro, intermediate, and advanced.

Intro To Arbitration

*Ottoneu Arbitration: Startegies For the First Offseason Activity* – Fellow ottoneu-ist Chad Young describes the classic form of arbitration where owners are asked to vote off one player on each team. While most leagues use allocations, this is a great place to start if yours still uses the voting system.

New And Improved Ottoneu Arbitration Process – Sir Young explains the allocation system in full detail along with  the motivation behind creating it.

Ottoneu Arbitration Guide – Chad posits three of the most popular voting tactics: vote often, keep players keepable (but just barely), and avoid prospects.

Intermediate Level

Ottoneu Arbitration: A Guide For 2014 – In my first stab at ottoneu related writing, I outline my own tactics and considerations. At a high level, you can make your dollars felt over time by bidding on values or try to push players into the draft pool. Don’t forget to account for scarcity, stability, prospects, resource allocation, and collaboration.

*Ottoneu Arbitration: Examples From The Original League* – With this season’s coverage focused on allocations leagues, let’s turn back to yesteryear for some voting league examples. Chad provides his process for selecting which player to nominate on a given roster. As an added bonus, it’s funny to see the names he selected and winnowed away. At the time, a $5 Danny Espinosa made the short list for one team while a $1 Edwin Encarnacion did not.

Ottoneu Arbitration: Who’s Getting Hit? – Chad takes a look at which players are getting the most attention during arbitration season. Unsurprisingly, a few names have proven most popular. Chad does a good job analyzing the selections, including which ones were smartest.

Ottoneu Arbitration: First Pass – I reveal my process and first round of selections in the league FanGraphs Staff Two. In the comments, we discuss the relative merits of clustered ($3 to one player) versus spread ($1 to three players) allocations.

Tinkering With Ottoneu Arbitration Selections – Fast forward a few weeks for an update to my “First Pass.” As the title suggests, this article focuses on how to tinker with your selections once other owners have made theirs. In short, ask yourself “what is my goal” and then identify which players don’t fit.

Advanced Level

Avoid Rookies With Your Ottoneu Allocations – This is a favorite topic of Chad’s and one in which I generally agree. He provides the math along with a nice two-by-two table that clearly illustrates the upside/downside of allocating to prospects.

Puzzling Through Ottoneu Arbitration – I turned to the readers for their thoughts and opinions via an arbitration puzzle. In this post, I select the most poignant comments for a slightly different perspective on how to approach allocations.

Ottoneu Tactics: Who To Arbitrate, Early Trade Thoughts: In this piece, I examine the tactic of targeting owners by quality. The basic premise: the best owners in your league might deserve a full $3 allocation even if their players don’t necessarily merit the attention.





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Chad Youngmember
9 years ago

Man, that “examples from the original league” thing…some of my choices look downright prescient (not being ready to buy in on Moore, Jennings among them) and others (passing on E5)…ugh…