Mastersball.com takes on Tout NL, AL, Mixed Draft and Mixed Auction, with commentaries from Todd Zola, Brian Walton, Zach Steinhorn and Perry Van Hook.
Mike Gianella has some notes about Tout NL, as well as some LABR leagues.
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Tout Daily: No one could catch Pianowski.
Michael Beller gave it the best shot, landing atop this week’s Tout Daily by Fanduel standings, riding big games from Max Scherzer, Russell Martin and Alex Rodriguez. But Pianowski remains atop the leaderboard after two weeks of play.
Three players, Jake Cieley, Chris Liss and Charlie Wiegert, have finished in the Top 10 in each of game’s first two weeks. Scott Engel has the second best total halfway through Phase 1.
How did Beller do it?
Can Anybody Catch Scott Pianowski?
Find out tonight, as 36 Touts chase the leader, in this week’s installment of Tout Daily presented by Fanduel!
And get a preview of who Lawr Michaels is picking at Mastersball.com.
April 13 Tout Wars FAAB Reports
This week’s AL, NL, Mixed Auction and Mixed Draft claims, commented on by the Mastersball staff.
Baseball Prospectus’s Mike Gianella looks at this week’s Tout AL and NL moves. As well as LABR!
LINK: A Madman’s Notes
Zach Steinhorn details some of the ironies of the early Tout Mixed Auction season.
Tout Daily: Week 1 Results
Scott Pianowski (Mixed Auction) kicked butt in the first week of the Tout Daily contest, besting Gene McCaffrey’s (Tout NL) squad by 10.75 points. How’d he do it?
Piano scored big with Oakland’s Drew Pomeranz (17 points), and Miami’s Dee Gordon (12.5) points, and Giancarlo Stanton (10.75 points).
McCaffrey got a fine game out of San Diego’s Brandon Morrow (yes, both leaders went low end on their starting pitching) (14 points), got a monster from the Reds Joey Votto (16.75 points), and a fine game mostly in extra innings from the Red Sox Xander Bogaerts (7 points).
For his success, Pianowski gets $60 added to his FanDuel account, while McCaffrey adds $48 to his. And the two are the leaders in week one of the four week race for eligibility in Phase One of the championship contest, which is to run in late August.
Other first week money winners were: Scott Engel ($42, Mixed Auction), Jake Ciely ($36, Tout X), Patrick Mayo ($30, Tout X), Lenny Melnick ($24, Tout NL), Rob Leibowitz ($18, Tout AL), Chris Liss ($18, Tout AL), Charlie Wiegert ($12, Mixed Draft) and Rob Murphy ($12, Mixed Draft). You can find the full results of Week 1 here.
Here is the running LEADERBOARD. Bookmark it!
Week 2 of Phase 1 comes next Friday, April 17th. Go Touts!
Here’s this week’s winning roster. Could you have done better? (click to enlarge)
Dueling Tout FAAB Reports
This year you’ll have two sources of notes about the weekly FAAB and claims from Tout Wars.
Long time compilers, Mastersball, continue their ongoing series of FAAB grids and comments, about each week’s buys and claims.
This year, Baseball Prospectus resumes a series it has run in the past, commenting on the week’s moves each Tuesday from a few different expert leagues.
X Marks the Opening
How are things going in the first week in Tout X? Lawr Michaels checks in.