Month: May 2015

Tout Daily Winner for May 8, 2015? Jake Ciely!

Jake_CielyIn a close victory over Tom Kessenich and Lawr Michaels, Jake Ciely took first place in this week’s Tout Daily contest.

Behind Gio Gonzalez’s solid win against the Braves, and strong contributions from Brian McCann, Edwin Encarnacion, Justin Upton, Josh Donaldson, and Jayson Werth, Ciely holds the lead in Phase 2 of the five phase contest that culminates on August 28th with a 15 team championship.

The top three teams in each phase win a ticket to championship. First phase ticket holders are Scott Pianowski, Adam Ronis, and Jeff Erickson.

Kessenich, who didn’t play in Phase 1, got off quickly in Phase 2 behind Aaron Sanchez’s strong start, and shared Encarnacion, Upton and Donaldson with Ciely. His offense was topped by Anthony Gose’s strong game.

Michaels shared Gio Gonzalez and Upton with Ciely, but his offense was powered by Cory Spangenberg’s and Bryce Harper’s monster games. See the whole contest results here.

You can see the contest leaderboard here.

For more info about Tout Daily, click here.

A closer look at Jake Ciely’s winning team.

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Who Is Winning Tout Wars Mixed Auction? May 7, 2015 Edition

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Zach Steinhorn (@ZachMLB) is! By a lot!

Zach’s only weakness, if you can call it that, is Stolen Bases. He’s riding on the broad shoulders of Anthony Rizzo, Brandon Moss, Justin Upton, Kolten Wong, and Josh Reddick on the offensive side of things. Star pitchers include Chris Archer, Mike Leake and Ian Kennedy, with Glen Perkins, David Robertson and Bret Cecil closing.

Who Is Winning Tout Wars Mixed Draft! May 7, 2015 Edition

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Greg Ambrosius (@GregAmbrosius) is! But he’s just a nip ahead of Adam Ronis (@AdamRonis), with Perry Van Hook within shouting distance.

Greg is riding fantastic starting pitching from Sonny Gray, Madison Bumgarner, Dan Haren, Shelby Miller, Max Scherzer and Jonathan Niese, while waiting for Kenley Jansen to return and help Drew Storen shore up the saves.

Team Ambrosius’s offense is led by Anthony Rizzo, Dee Gordon, and Nelson Cruz. Not bad!

Tout Wars FAAB Summary Looks FAABulous! for May 4.

Mastersball.com‘s comments and charts are in, now that the May 4 FAAB is completed. Read it here!

Mike Gianella covers Tout Wars and LABR FAAB claims for the week. Read it here!

Tout X Standings for April, Strategy for May!

Bret Sayre stayed ahead of the hard-charging Andrea LaMont to hold onto the lead after the first four-week Tout X event.

Month two begins today, with teams creating new salary cap teams from the Shandler Park price list.

Sayre writes about how he put his May team together over at Baseball Prospectus.

Here’s how they finished after the season’s first four weeks:

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How Sayre Did It:

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Scott Pianowski Wins Tout Daily by FanDuel Phase 1!

Scott-Pianowski-YahooScott Pianowski finished first for the second time in four weeks in Tout Wars Daily by FanDuel, to finish first in the inaugural Phase of the contest, and wins a ticket to the Championship Day, on which the 15 Phase winners will compete for $2000 in prize money.

Pianowski rode St. Louis starter Lance Lynn, and got solid performances from Joey Votto, Dee Gordon, and Joc Pederson for the win. He was trailed in Week 4 by Jeff Erickson and Al Melchior. You can see all the entries and results right here.

The other two Championship Ticket winners in Phase 1 are Week 3 champ Adam Ronis and three-time Top 10 finisher Jeff Erickson. They closely edged out Lenny Melnick, who along with all the other touts will begin with a clean slate for Week 1 of Phase 2, starts next Friday, May 8th. See the Tout Daily Leaderboard here.

Here’s Pianowski’s Week 4 winner:

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