Month: March 2011

Tout Warriors Toot About Their Teams

AL: Mastersball/Zola | MLB.com | Rotowire | Mastersball/Lawr | ESPN (Audio, 10+ mins in) | Baseball Prospectus (subscribers) | BaseballHQ | Rotoworld

NL: MLB.com | Askrotoman | Rotowire | Yahoo | Rotothinktank | USA Today | Mastersball | ESPN (Audio, 10+ mins in) | FantasyPros911

Mix: Yahoo | fantasybaseball.com | Hardball Times | FantasybaseballSherpa | Si.com | MLB.com | Rotoexperts | Wall Street Journal | KFFL/Heaney | KFFL/Minnix

Tout Mixed Draft 2011--Defending champ Andy Behrens and contenders at work

The perspectives of others

Tout vet Mike Salfino looks at how Yankee and Met players fared for wsj.com

Enjoy some photos from the drafts

This year’s Tout NL spreadsheet keeper John Toczydlowski shares some thoughts about Tout Weekend.

The crew at MLB.com made a video.

Eric Mack wishes he’d followed his own draft advice at Tout Wars.

 

TOUT NL DRAFT: Done!

See the draft spreadsheet here.

Click the console below for a replay of the the live blog.

TOUT MIXED Draft Live Blog, 3pm here: IT’S OVER!

The live blog is done. Click the console below to relive the auction with Jason Collette and a cast of many. The final spreadsheet with the draft’s full results is here.

Cover It Live blog here for Tout Wars AL auction, March 19 at 9 am

Look for radio coverage at Sirius/XM and mlb.com. Look for the live blog here.

LISS: Preparing for an Expert League Auction

Rotowire’s Chris Liss tells how he has prepared for this year’s Tout Wars NL auction in the Bats blog at the NYtimes.com

I’ve just added an extra buck to my Stephen Drew maximum bid.

NEW Tout Wars Leaderboard

Find out who the most and least successful players in Tout Wars history are with the new Tout Wars Leaderboard.

Look on the HIstory page at Toutwars.com for information about the methodology.

DRAFT PREP: Know Your League!

By Nick Shlain, special to toutwars.com

Each auction is unique, and none more so (if something can be more unique, at all) than the CBSsports Analysts Auctions. CBSsports’ holds their auctions in mid-February, before the start of spring training, and the onslaught of news about players that come with that. Perhaps because of that the CBS analysts draft has some other qualities of note.

Roto Think Tank’s Mike Gianella (rotothinktank.blogspot.com), a former CBS Analsyts champion (2009 AL, 2010 NL) and third place finisher in 2010 Tout Wars, was kind enough to correspond with me about this year’s auction.
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