Day: August 22, 2015

The Final Ticket! Head to Head Playoff Comes on Sunday!

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In Phase Five of Tout Daily, the unthinkable happened. Two teams, after four grueling weeks, tied for third place with 165.99 points. Neither, amazingly enough, finished in the Top 10 in Week 4 of Phase Five.

Meet Rudy Gamble and Steve Moyer.

We hadn’t anticipated this happening, which is no doubt why it did, but after much consideration and consultation, it was decided that a Head to Head playoff on Sunday would settle matters. Unless these very equally matched teams tie again, in which case they’ll go at it again on Tuesday.

How essential is this head to head playoff? One team, the winner, will earn a ticket to the Tout Daily Finals, on August 28th. $2,000 in prizes will be awarded to the top five finishers in the field of 15.

The other team, the loser, will go home.

Check in on Sunday for updates, and the final results (probably) Sunday night.

The Final 15! Engel and Pianowski Earn Second Tickets! Third Ticket in Dispute!

Scott Engel did not have a stellar week 4 of Phase Five of Tout Daily, but his lead going into the last week was so big he finished first easily overall, winning his second ticket to the finals.

Scott Pianowski had the seventh best finish for the week, which elevated him into second place for the Phase, and earned him his second ticket to the finals.

As for the Phase’s third ticket, Rudy Gamble and Steve Moyer have tied for the four weeks, each generating exactly 165.99 points. A fair and appropriate tiebreaker is being devised, to determine which of these teams will win the 15th ticket to the finals, the results to be announced soon.

stevegardnerAs for the week 20 contest, Steve Gardner rode Carlos Carrasco’s arm, and a big night from AJ Pollock, as well as solid performances from Joey Votto and Alcides Escobar, to a 10 point victory over Michael Beller. Gardner finished just 11 points out of third place, despite a disastrous week 3 in which his team totalled just two points.

Michael Beller overcame a weak performance from Wei-yin Chen, riding the thundering bats of Pollock, Marlon Byrd and Carlos Gonzalez to second place for the week.

Third place for the week went to Patrick Mayo, who had only one hitter finish with five or more points. That was the newly de-beareded Ben Paulsen, because Chris Sale’s big game and some smaller hitting was enough.

Here’s how Gardner did it for the week:

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One final bit of whimsy. The Top 3 finishers overall who did not win tickets to the finals:
Seth Trachtman, Brian Walton, and Jake Ciely. See the entire leaderboard here.