OSN Member ASL06 reported to us today that OneSeason will be performing an IPO reset at the close of trading hours on Friday. Here is the official announcement. Kudos to OneSeason for keeping the IPO list in line with who active users want to see IPO’d. Kudos to ASL for the quick announcement as well in the OSN Forums. Maybe hook up ASL for his hard work with an IPO request for Mike Bibby? Ok, that’s stretching it, I know.

OneSeason and Stats.com have done their part in getting the Rookies available for request on OneSeason, now it’s our turn…..Vote ‘Em Up!!

Matthew Stafford

Mark Sanchez

Michael Crabtree

He has moved his way up the list over the past months, finally had his IPO day yesterday, he is set for release today. Noone cares. In fact, people don’t care so much, noone has noticed that his picture isn’t even him. That’s Jake Plummer. Apparently OneSeason could give 2 shits about Aaron Rodgers too. We know they’re Bears/Seahawks fans there in the OS Headquarters. F the Packers! F Aaron Rodgers!

It is not right that the best young player in Major League Baseball is 10th on the request list. Ichiro and B.J. Upton are the two active baseball players that are scheduled to IPO before him and neither of them deserve to be, at least not until Japan can trade. HRAM is only 25 years old and is not going away anytime soon. He has proven that he can do it in the major leagues and he is the first pick in almost all fantasy drafts. Baseball is in right now as shown by recent volume figures and the success of DWRT and LNCM this past week.

Also, please remove all basketball players from your list. No one cares anymore. The season is almost over and there are plenty of good ballers out there. All future IPO’s should be either baseball or football, NOT basketball.

David Wright hit the market today, 4/7/09 debuting with only 641 shares. He came out of the box on fire, as most people in the forums predicted. He was selling no problem around $20, and at the time of this writing, he has fallen back down into the $16’s. I thought he would end up in the $8-$9k Market Cap at the close of the market today. He is currently at $10,500. What are your thoughts on the short and long term prospects of David Wright? And who is the fine ass chick smashing cosmos on his arm?

Here is an email I received today from a random user who’s been around a couple months. The best part about this email, is that this person isn’t a member of the forums that I can find anywhere. Welcome to the world of OneSeason JJM.

Enjoy This OSN!

Hey Bull pup,

JJM

Don’t worry newbie, the OSN has your back! Thanks for the email!

In another surprise move, Johan Santana was put into the IPO Pipeline right around 6pm eastern time. This is the third IPO in a row to be announced without an off day and yet again it was right in the middle of east coast rush hour! Today was also the first day that OneSeason had implemented the “Are you fan enough?” feature. When announced, this feature brought mixed reviews, but ultimately the Nation endorsed it. Unfortunately, the first test of the new way of requesting IPO’s went horribly wrong. Everyone got the alerts and rushed to their computers only to realize that it was impossible to request! Error messages popped up everywhere, for some the question didn’t appear, and for others the site just sat idle in the loading stage. To add to the frustration, OneSeasonPro.com users were able to request IPO shares through their site within the first five minutes before the glitch was fixed. All in all, it was not a good debut for the new Captcha.

My response? Who gives a shit? People were flipping out unnecessarily. I mean, are we really all that desperate for $20 bucks? I think we can manage missing an IPO here and there. This has been said over and over on the forums and in the chat but I will reiterate it here using BullPup’s favorite expression. OneSeason is right in the middle of building a house. They currently only have the frame and floors up and we are walking around making sure it doesn’t fall down and no one falls through the floor. Well today, there was a crack right down the middle of the kitchen. This is exactly why there is no aggressive ad campaign, they are not ready yet. Imagine how bad it would look if OneSeason was aggressively trying to attract new users and shit like this went down. If you can’t picture it, the results would be disastrous.

I know people hate to hear it, but patience is a virtue. We should all be super pumped that Mike and the boys are rolling this thing along slowly. If they wanted to make a quick buck and bail they could have easily dropped a couple million into advertising and this thing would have skyrocketed, but it wouldn’t have lasted. By adding new features, and testing them out with us, we are giving them invaluable feedback that ultimately will be beneficial in the long run. So for now, if you missed out on the STNA IPO, don’t worry about it. If you really want him just buy a couple shares. If things go as planned, it will all be worth it someday.

Matt Ryan was released to the hounds tonight after a long day of waiting around. Ryan has settled into the bottom four of all football IPOs and is the lowest valued of all quarterbacks. Just behind Jay Cutler. QB’s are usually the highest valued of the football SOI’s and Matty Ice is coming into only his second pro season. In his rookie year he lead the Falcons to the playoffs. He is a born leader, has all the skills, and will only get better as he continues to mature. Matty is only the fourth “post hoo” football SOI and could have a lot of potential going into the upcoming football season. OS users tend to like the sexy young stars and RYAN is definitely in that category. I see him staying in the bottom of the football pool for a while but once football fever strikes and fantasy football comes around he could see some considerable gains.

Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte is going the next IPO to hit the pipe line unless Matty Ryan can make a quick fourth quarter comeback. Seeing as we are out of season and running backs generally don’t do as well I do not have high hopes for this IPO. We have a few OSN members who are going to load up from the beginning, but once they run out of cash I see Forte falling quickly. This could be a great time to get in on him. He is the focal point of the Bears offense and had a great rookie season. Chicago has some pretty die hard fans and as OneSeason continues to grow and football season gets closer Forte could definitely out pace the market.

The Magic Formula

Last night, Mike confirmed what we have been telling people for months when the IPOs started rolling out with more regularity. Nothing has changed with the IPO Algorithm. It still triggers based on the same conditions that it always has. We know it’s a combination of several things, but how they weigh we’ll never know. But, there was 100% no denying proof, straight from Mike, that the IPO algorithm has not changed.

It’s you, you ball bag. What a worthless SOI. Your own city hates you. Nearly the entire OneSeason community hates you. Seriously. Who even requested you be traded? Over Griffey Jr? Over Magic? Over about 100 more people I could name off the top of my head? This guy is always hurt. Always acting like a little bitch. I would love nothing more than for people to remove him from their list, and he never get IPO’d. This won’t happen though. Ladies and Gentleman, I present to you, your first 4k MC IPO-SOI, on the close of the market, first day of trading. Tracy McGrady.

Big Papi is awating his turn at the plate

Larry Bird hit the market today with shares trading, between $12.00-$15.00 range. Larry is landing *just* under where people were speculating he would, indicating he’s a good buy. Legends will always be the best investments to make. They don’t get their eyes poked, putting them out for the year, they don’t have crappy performances in the playoffs, and they don’t get fined or suspended. Their legacies are already set. I believe all legends should rise and dip on nearly the same rate. As new legends are added, they will just reorganize themselves in the market, get their places set and be permanently in that order. Gretzy hasn’t found his place yet, and he won’t until OneSeason opens up shop, offically, in Canada. What are your thoughts on legends? What kind of 3rd party games can YOU come up with using legends?

OSN Analyst Timmy304

We are officially BIRD watching!

After much anticipation, BIRD is the next IPO to be released into the market. Not only has this been the most anticipated IPO since GTZY, but besides MGIC it might be a while before we have another legend released into the market. Even before DNCN’s IPO was announced we already had a contest to guess BIRD’s total market value and total shares traded on his day of release (go check out Dancenham’s contest to win a nation shirt). Everyone is looking to get a piece of BIRD.

BIRD will also be another landmark for the dreaded IPO alerts. Many people decided as soon as Bob’s tool went free there was no reason to pay for alerts anymore; however, others have decided that they will wait for BIRD to be released to ensure they will receive his shares. Also, as nearly everyone knows now, OneSeason has declared to expect a smaller maximum per person which has been around 0.4%-0.5% and most have expected the timestamp would become longer and longer to allow the casual OneSeason user to be part of the IPO market. However, we saw DNCN’s latest timestamp was around the 4 minute mark. Even with the small maximum it is very possible we see the latest timestamp to receive BIRD less than 2 minutes.

So get your F5 button ready for the tornado and test all of your premium IPO alerts, because you do not want to be on the outside looking in for this highly anticipated IPO. Everyone get on your perch and wait impatiently for Larry Legend to be announced.

Larry Legend Love the Nation

Larry Legend Loves the Nation

More great contests in the Nation’s forums.

Alright guys, I hope your all as fired up as I am for the upcoming BIRD IPO

Im so hyped up that I’m going to release WANS (win a nation shirt) #3!!

contest rules:

Guess BIRDs Total Market Value on his first day as an SOI (his MV at closing)

Tie Breakers will be:

1. total shares traded
2. total shares owned (screen shot needed and only needed if tie breaker goes this far. most owned will win)

example:

BIRD 50,000
1000 shares traded

**contest open until BIRD hits the live market.
**shipping info will be needed to be PM’d to me(if you win) for your shirt.
**one entry per OSN user.
**all entries are final - NO EDIT BUTTONS

go get ‘em and good luck

Get registered for the Nation’s forums and take part in this and many other great contests!

~Dancenham