This is the first one. It covers LABR, too, which is Steve’s league.
Another source of roster and move analysis can’t be bad. Go Steve!
Category: About Tout Wars
SABR’s F.X. Flinn presents the SABR Trophy
At NYC’s Foley’s on March 18th, SABR’s FX Flinn present SABR Trophies to AL Champ Jason Grey and Mixed League Champ Andy Behrens, and shares a bit of roto history, too.
Who Will Win Tout NL?
Who Will Win Tout Mixed?
Who Will Win Tout AL?
Tout Mixed Round by Round
2011 Tout Wars NL Round by RoundFantasy sports are engines of information. There are inputs, what the players do, and there are outputs, how us players anticipate what is going to happen. The player who best understands the information flow wins. That’s all there is to it.
But as we all know, separating real information from the static is a challenge. Not least so because our data are pretty limited. For a game based on stats and numbers, most of the records of what actually happened from year to year have gone the way of digital dust. They’re not out there any more. And this is exactly the sort of stuff that might help us understand better the way the games we play work.
Toz, of Rotothinktank.blogspot.com, was in the room for last Saturday’s Tout Mixed auction, and offers up a round by round record of all that went down. This is raw data, we don’t know what can be made of it, except that we need more.
Toz also did the .
If you have someone collecting similar data in your auction, please pass it along.
10 Year Ago at Tout Wars
In 2001, Tout Wars drafted in the basement baseball shrine at Baseball Info Solution’s Steve Moyer’s house in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. Â What I remember most is winning the first reserve pick in the NL draft and choosing can’t-miss pitching prospect Kurt Ainsworth over the surprising spring sensation third baseman named Albert Pujols (or as Steve informed us pedantically: Poo-holes). Take a trip down memory lane with us now…
Does anyone have a picture from the draft?
Tout Warriors Toot About Their Teams
AL: Mastersball/Zola | MLB.com | Rotowire | Mastersball/Lawr | ESPN (Audio, 10+ mins in) | Baseball Prospectus (subscribers) | BaseballHQ | Rotoworld
NL: MLB.com | Askrotoman | Rotowire | Yahoo | Rotothinktank | USA Today | Mastersball | ESPN (Audio, 10+ mins in) | FantasyPros911
Mix: Yahoo | fantasybaseball.com | Hardball Times | FantasybaseballSherpa | Si.com | MLB.com | Rotoexperts | Wall Street Journal | KFFL/Heaney | KFFL/Minnix
The perspectives of others
Tout vet Mike Salfino looks at how Yankee and Met players fared for wsj.com
Enjoy some photos from the drafts
This year’s Tout NL spreadsheet keeper John Toczydlowski shares some thoughts about Tout Weekend.
The crew at MLB.com made a video.
Eric Mack wishes he’d followed his own draft advice at Tout Wars.