If you checked in early to the Tout Daily by RTSports.com scoring last night, Ron Shandler was in the lead. And if you checked in late, after his team was done, he was also in the lead, and clearly would remain so as long as the Mariners didn’t take the lead and give Nate Karns a victory.
The Ms didn’t, and Ron held on against the Karns-owning Jason Collette, finishing far ahead of a pack led by Steve Gardner, 10 points behind.
Ron built his team around the popular and cheap Rich Hill facing the Rays, owned by 38 percent of teams, and the not-so-popular Chris Tillman, owned by just five percent, against the Tigers. Tillman scored 18 points, same as Chris Sale, the superstar of the night, who cost $3,700 more.
Shandler’s offense was lead by Bryce Harper, Travis Shaw and Jimmy Rollins, and he notably rostered Kevin Plawecki, the highest scoring Met in what proved to be a popular and unproductive stack in Colorado.
Second-place finisher Jason Collette avoided the stack in Colorado completely, and prospered with solid if unspectacular games from Khris Davis, Yan Gomes, Jackie Bradley and Francisco Lindor backing up Chris Sale’s domination of the Yankees.
Pitchers in the top 10 finishing teams last night were Tillman, Sale, Hill, Karns, Jeff Samardzija, and Junior Guerra,
Halfway through Period 2 of the Tout Daily contest, Shandler is 6.33 points ahead of Jeff Boggis, with Adam Ronis, Scott Engel, and Patrick Davitt close behind. You can see the leaderboard here.
The top three finishers in each of five four-week periods will earn a golden ticket to the Tout Daily finals, held August 26th, after which this year’s champion will be declared.
Follow along all season on Fridays, with pregame picks during the day at toutwars.com and all the action all night at RTSports.com.