Month: March 2016

THIS is Tout Weekend!

A scene from the Tout NL 2015 auction.
A scene from the Tout NL 2015 auction.

Where will the best and brightest fantasy baseball writers and broadcasters be this weekend?

Many will be in New York City, for the annual Tout Wars weekend of drafts and parties.

This year’s drafts are being held in the studio at SiriusXM and aren’t open for the public, but you can follow along live on the SiriusXM fantasy sports channel, and on the live blog and spreadsheet at toutwars.com.

When are the drafts? Where and when are the parties?

The SCHEDULE:

Tout H2H: March 18, 7pm. Doors open at 6pm. Ron Shandler is auctioneer. Joe Pisapia has the spreadsheet. Mike Gianella is on chat.

Tout AL: March 19, 9am. Doors open at 8am. Brian Feldman is auctioneer. Paul Sporer is on spreadsheet. Al Melchior is doing chat.

Tout Mix Auction: March 19, 3pm. Doors open at 2pm. Jeff Erickson is auctioneer. Ray Murphy has the spreadsheet. Jason Collette is on chat.

Foley’s NY Party: March 19, 8pm. 18 West 33rd Street. Party with the pros!

Tout NL Auction: March 20, 10am. Doors open at 9am. Brian Feldman is the auctioneer. Steve Moyer is on spreadsheet. Jason Collette will chat.

The live blog for each auction will be available at toutwars.com, where there will also be a link to the live spreadsheet. You can access the live spreadsheet now at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12AvDtjmYjr-mlFHXIUkFRDK3EBs_Zy-iJzPZNqRONfQ/edit?usp=sharing. Until the weekend comes, nothing is happening.

Here’s the Menu of Champions at Foleys on Saturday night:

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Tout Wars Mixed Draft: We have winners!

The stat service Tout Wars uses has a Toy Box, a place league member can go to mess around with different data. Like, whose team was the best over the past two weeks? Five weeks? Two and a half months.

It also allows you to create projected standings based on Clay Davenport’s and BaseballHQ’s projections and current rosters.

Tout Mixed Draft drafted last night, and here are the projected standings (click to enlarge):

Clay Davenport’s projections, good for Wilton, bad for Murphy:

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While BaseballHQ’s projections have a different look, especially for Murphy:

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Tout Wars Mixed Draft Live 2016 Live Blog! March 8 at 8pm!

You can follow along watching the Draft Room at onRoto.com.

Tout Wars Mixed Draft Order Is Now Set!

With Tout Wars Mixed Draft a week away, team owners were asked which draft positions they favored and order was set based on their preferences. Precedence was given to teams in order of last year’s finish. The draft will be held at 8pm on March 8, 2015.

There will be a live spreadsheet with draft results available here at toutwars.com, and Glenn Colton and Rick Wolf will broadcast the event live on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports channel.

2016 Tout Wars MIXED DRAFT

Tout Wars mandates that each year’s draft order is determined by last year’s finish. Since draft picks are not necessarily valued in the order they come, owners are polled for their preferences of pick. The draft order is now set (corrected to show Van Hook preference for No. 8 over No. 4):

1. Rudy Gamble (1000)
2. Patrick Mayo (1000) Transfer from Tout X
3. Adam Ronis (1000) 2015 Mixed Draft Champion
4. Tim McLeod (1000) 2014 Mixed Draft Champion
5. Eno Sarris (1000)
6. Craig Mish (1000) Transfer from Tout X
7. Greg Ambrosius (1000)
8. Perry Van Hook (1000)
9. Tom Kessenich (910)
10. Tim McCullough (1000) Transfer from Tout X
11. Anthony Perri (740)
12. Rick Wilton (490)
13. Stacie Stern (1000) New to Tout Wars
14. Charlie Wiegert (790)
15. Ray Murphy (990)