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The New League: Tout Wars Head To Head Lineup is Announced

Head To Head is the latest fantasy baseball format to get the Tout Wars treatment. The innaugural auction will take place on March 18th, kicking off Tout Wars Weekend in New York City.

The 12-team league welcomes newcomers Jeff Zimmerman, Howard Bender and Jeff Mans playing 5×5 style against returning Tout Wars vets, playing 22 weekly H2H contest and three roto periods (first half, second half, overall) in which 11 games in each are at stake. The first place team in the roto period goes 11-0, the second goes 10-1, 10th place goes 2-9, etc.

Head to Head League scoring and rules are being finalized and will be announced later this week.

The order below represents reserve-round draft order. The numbers in parentheses are the FAAB budgets for each team.

2016 Tout Wars HEAD TO HEAD

Doug Anderson (1000)
Jake Ciely (1000)
Andrea LaMont (1000)
Michael Beller (1000)
Jeff Boggis (1000)
Stephania Bell (1000)
Paul Sporer (1000)
Brent Hershey (1000)
Peter Kreutzer (780) Transfer from Tout NL
Jeff Mans (1000) New to Tout Wars
Howard Bender (1000)  New to Tout Wars
Jeff Zimmerman (1000) New to Tout Wars

Announcing the 2016 Tout Wars Mixed Draft Lineup

Adam Ronis returns to defend his 2015 crown, with Rudy Gamble champing at the bit for a rematch. They are joined by Tout Wars newcomer Stacie Stern, who is general manager of Head to Head sports and a regular on SiriusXM radio (SiriusXM will carry the Draft live on Rick Wolf and Glenn Colton’s March 8 show at 8pm), and three Touts from last year’s inaugural Tout X league, Patrick Mayo, Craig Mish, and Tim McCullough.

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 not yet set, players are listed in the selection order of picks:

Adam Ronis (1000) 2015 Mixed Draft Champion
Rudy Gamble (1000)
Patrick Mayo (1000) Transfer from Tout X
Perry Van Hook (1000)
Tim McLeod (1000) 2014 Mixed Draft Champion
Craig Mish (1000) Transfer from Tout X
Greg Ambrosius (1000)
Eno Sarris (1000)
Ray Murphy (990)
Tom Kessenich (910)
Charlie Wiegert (790)
Tim McCullough (1000) Transfer from Tout X
Anthony Perri (740)
Rick Wilton (490)
Stacie Stern (1000) New to Tout Wars

Tout Wars Mixed Auction Lineup is Announced.

For the third time in five years, Fred Zinkie heads into a Tout Wars Mixed Auction throwing out the first nomination. He hasn’t shown quite the same dominance in the even-numbered years as he has in the odd. Could that open up some opportunity?

Newcomers to Tout Mixed Auction, Bret Sayre (won Tout X last year), and Gene McCaffrey, from the NL league, hope to make a difference.

Players are listed in the order they will choose in the reserve draft after the auction. The numbers in parentheses are the amount of FAAB each team starts the season with.

2016 Tout Wars MIXED AUCTION

Fred Zinkie (1000) 2011, 2013, 2015 Mixed Auction Champion
Bret Sayre (1000) 2015 Tout X Champion
Scott Swanay (1000)
Tim Heaney (1000) won coin flip
Zach Steinhorn (1000)
Cory Schwartz (1000) 2012 Mixed Auction Champion
Scott Pianowski (1000)
Ray Flowers (1000)
Scott Engel (1000)
Gene McCaffrey (960) 2001 NL Champion, Transfer from NL
Al Melchior (910)
David Gonos (890) 2008 Mixed Auction Champion
Joe Pisapia (890)
Derek VanRiper (840) 2014 Mixed Auction Champion
Nando DiFino (720)

2016 Tout Wars NL Lineup Announced

Mike Gianella, the 2015 Tout NL champ, will toss out the first nomination in the March 20th Tout NL auction in New York City (and live on SiriusXM radio). There are two newcomers to the league this year, as Grey Albright moves over from the Mixed Draft league and Andy Behrens arrives from Tout AL.

The numbers in parentheses are the number of FAAB units each team starts with. Teams are penalized 10 units for each point they score fewer than 60 points in the previous year’s standings.

2016 Tout Wars NL Only

Mike Gianella (1000) 2015 NL Champion
Tristan Cockcroft (1000) 2012, 2013, 2014 Champion
Grey Albright (1000) Transfer from Mixed Draft
Derek Carty (1000)
Ray Guilfoyle (1000)
Phil Hertz (1000)
Lenny Melnick (1000) 2002 NL Champion (with partner Irving Swilling)
Scott Wilderman (1000) 2003, 2006 NL Champion
Andy Behrens (1000) 2010 Mixed Auction Champion, Transfer from AL
Brian Walton (920) 2009 NL Champion
Steve Gardner (890) 2011 NL Champion
Todd Zola (860)

2016 Tout Wars AL Lineup Announced

Chris Liss, the 2015 Tout AL champ will have first pick in the reserve rounds that follow the March 19th Tout AL auction in New York City (and live on SiriusXM radio). One newcomer to the league this year, as Patrick Davitt moves over from the Mixed Auction league.

The numbers in parentheses are the number of FAAB units each team starts with. Teams are penalized 10 units for each point they score fewer than 60 points.

2016 Tout Wars AL ONLY

Chris Liss (1000) 2015 AL Champion, 2009 Mixed Auction Champion
Mike Podhorzer (1000) 2013 Mixed Draft Champion
Rick Wolf/Glenn Colton (1000) 2014 AL Champions
Jeff Erickson (1000)  2007 AL Champion
Jason Collette (1000)
Ron Shandler (1000) 1998 and 2000 AL Champion. 1998 NL Champion.
Patrick Davitt (1000) Transfer from Mixed Auction
Larry Shechter (950) 2011, 2012, 2013 AL Champion. 2005, 2006, 2007 Mixed Auction Champion
Rob Leibowitz (930)
Seth Trachtman (930)
Steve Moyer (850)
Lawr Michaels (790) 2001, 2009 AL Champion

The Tout Wars Leaderboard Has Been Updated.

Who has been the most successful Tout Wars owner the last five years? Fred Zinkie.

Who has been the most successful Tout Wars owner the last ten years? Larry Schechter.

Who are the all time top 10 earners in Tout?

TOUT WARS LEADER BOARD Years AVG $ p/yr All Time P/L
Larry Schechter 11 $256 $2,820
Fred Zinkie 5 $461 $2,306
Mike Lombardo 5 $316 $1,579
Tristan Cockcroft 9 $164 $1,473
Jason Grey 11 $125 $1,380
Ron Shandler 18 $53 $946
John Coleman 5 $170 $849
Sam Walker 6 $140 $840
Trace Wood 6 $140 $840
Chris Liss 7 $115 $804

You can find all this info and more in the Tout Wars Leaderboard, which has now been updated to include the 2015 finishes.

How is the Leaderboard calculated? Each team is attributed a $100 entry fee into the league. The winnings for each league are distributed to the top one third of the teams in the league, based on a proportional formula.

 

Your Doubt Wars Champions 2015!

doubtwarslogoDoubt Wars is a contest we run immediately after the Tout Wars drafts in March.

Contestants are asked to submit full roto rosters made up of players with the standard $260 budget, at their Tout Wars draft prices plus $1.

The idea is for contestants to find the best draft day bargains.

Doubt Wars is also a chance to compete against the Touts. Can you put together a better team, based on draft day rosters, than they can?

This year, a technical glitch meant that Doubt Warriors made their rosters paying the Tout Wars draft price, which gave them $23 more to play with. The result was that, compared to the 2014 Doubt Wars, the civilians did far better against the Touts in 2015.

In 2016, the civilians will pay the Tout Price + $1. The Touts are not punching bags.

The pricing issue did not affect the competition among civilians. Here are this year’s winners:

DOUBT WARS NL: John Sullivan, playing as Roll2.

DOUBT WARS AL: Eric Mulkowsky, playing as Mr. Coffee

DOUBT WARS MIX: Nicholas Palczak, playing as Otto’s Army.

The leaderboards are here under three tabs.

These are the Champions of Doubt Wars!

They should send us their mailing info so we can send them books and magazines and online memberships. But that’s not why we do this, is it?

Congratulations Doubt Warriors! You are the champions!

Lovingly,
Tout Wars

Tout Wars Post Season Analysis Links

Rudy Gamble, on finishing second in Tout Wars Mixed Draft.

Fred Zinkie, on winning Tout Wars Mixed Auction

Zach Steinhorn, on falling short in Tout Wars Mixed Auction.

Mike Gianella, on winning Tout Wars NL.

Mike Gianella and Bret Sayre’s Flags Fly Forever podcast, on Tout NL. Fred Zinkie is on this show, too.

Ray Flowers, on finishing in the middle of the pack in Tout Wars Mixed Auction.

Peter Kreutzer, on finishing last in Tout Wars NL.