They’ve just started playing and already there are FAAB commentaries.
Mastersball writes up all the leagues here.
Mike Gianella’s AL and NL coverage at Baseball Prospectus is here.
Both Masters and Mike also write up some LABR leagues, if you want more!
Using Clay Davenport’s projections applied to the Tout AL rosters, Mike Podhorzer is going to win Tout AL big this year, finishing 10 ahead of Larry Schechter and nearly 20 ahead of Rob Leibowitz. Here’re the projected results, thanks to onRoto.com‘s Toy Box.
But onRoto doesn’t project the standings based on rest of year projections using only one projection system. They also run them with the BaseballHQ rest of season projections. With BaseballHQ, Podhorzer and Schechter are closer, much closer, but there is also an alsoran, Patrick Davitt, who becomes a contender in a seriously tight race.
Guess we better let them play it out.
That could be the headline if the final Tout NL standings at the end of the season are the same as the projected standings heading into the season. The projected standings are based on the players taken in the Tout NL auction using baseballHQ.com‘s projections.
onRoto.com, the Tout Wars stat service, offers projected standings based on rest of the year stats from two sources. In the other standings, based on Clay Davenport’s projections, onRoto owner Scott Wilderman is projected to finish first, with Gianella in second, but we should disregard those. Wilderman uses the Davenport projections to make up his bidding list.
The (spreadsheet) with auction results is here. Use the tabs for each league.
Steve Gardner wrote a general piece about Tout Weekend. Jake Ceily with lessons learned from the Tout auctions. Howard Bender on strategy, and Sporer and Zinkie at Tout.
Tout Mixed Draft: Gonos | Gamble | Ronis | White | Murphy (baseballHQ subscribers only)
Tout Head 2 Head: Bender | Ciely | Link | Bell (by Mason) | Kreutzer
Tout AL: Leibowitz | Erickson | Liss | Davitt | Michaels
Tout Mixed Auction: Zimmerman (previews Replacement Level | Player evaluations | Final Standings | League Tendencies) | Flowers | Zinkie and Steinhorn | Shandler | Melchior | VanRiper | Heaney/VanRiper Podcast | Sayre | Pianowski | Swanay
Tout NL: Gianella | Albright | Behrens | Cockcroft | Gardner | Walton
Our stat provider, onRoto.com, has a feature that allows us to apply two sets of projections to the current rosters, and see the year’s “final” standings before the season even starts.
Gary Davenport’s projections like Greg Ambrosius and Anthony Perri:
While the BaseballHQ projections tip to Anthony Perri and Greg Ambrosius, with a helping of Ray Murphy:
It’s probably a comfort to two-time defending champ Adam Ronis (and everyone other than Ambrosius, Perri and Murphy, that last year’s projected standings had him finishing 10th and ninth respectively. That’s why we let them play.
See you on Opening Day!
The live spreadsheet is here.
Colton and the Wolfman are covering the draft from 8pm to Midnight tonight on SiriusXM.
Rotoman will be talking about the draft live on the Tout Wars Facebook page.
Tim McLeod will be chatting from inside the draft room on his Facebook page.
Come join us!
Yes, the gladiators are donning their cheat sheets, warming up their CPUs, making last minute checks on playing time. The Tout Wars Mixed Draft is this Tuesday night at 8pm.
You can follow along with Colton and the Wolfman, on SiriusXM at 8pm.
There will be a live spreadsheet link right here, to follow along, and join us on the Tout Wars Facebook page, for tracking and conversation.
You’ll find a list of this year’s players right here.
We look forward to seeing you!
