The Dates:
March 24 at 7pm: Tout Wars Head 2 Head
March 25 at 9am: Tout Wars AL
March 25 at 3pm: Tout Wars Mixed Auction
March 26 at 10am: Tout Wars NL
Who’s playing? Click here.
The Place:
Rock ‘N’ Reilly’s Irish Rock Pub in the Renaissance Hotel.
Home of the FNTSY Sports Network.
218 West 35th Street, NYC (on the rooftop on the fifth floor)
See you there!
The 20th Annual Tout Wars Baseball Experts Leagues are getting ready to rumble.
The Mixed Draft League will take place March 7th, at 8pm, and be covered live by Colton and the Wolfman on SiriusXM radio as well as here at ToutWars.com.
Tout Weekend is March 24-26, in New York City. The schedule:
March 24, evening: Tout Head 2 Head Auction.
March 25, morning: Tout AL Auction
March 25: afternoon: Tout Mixed Auction Auction
March 25, night: Party at Foley’s New York, West 33rd Street
March 26, morning: Tout NL Auction.
League changes this year, see…
Nando DiFino moving into Tout AL
Ron Shandler moving into Tout Mixed Auction
Brent Hershey moving into Tout Mixed Auction
Jeff Zimmerman moving into Tout Mixed Auction
David Gonos moving into Tout Mixed Draft
and the arrival of four new Touts in H2H:
Clay Link: Rotowire.com
Dr. Roto: Scout Fantasy, Host, Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio
Kyle Elfrink
Vlad Sedler: Rotowire.com, BaseballHQ, FantasyGuru Elite
You can see the full league rosters here.
Welcome aboard!
Post mortems are tough. You try to explain your team, your thinking, your approach, and you constantly run the risk of sounding like you’re talking about your fantasy team! Which is a no-no, of course.
Jeff Erickson gives his 2016 Tout Wars team a post mortem. It was an ugly season for Jeff, and he fearless wades into the mess to explain why. SPOILER ALERT: Hitting.
But he does such good, honest job it’s worth the read to learn how to do your own post-mortem. Read it here. It’s on the free side of Rotowire.
Jonathan Pierce won Doubt Wars NL, and he won Doubt Wars Mix, too, the first time a single player has won two Doubt leagues in the same year.
Doubt Wars players put together dream rosters after the Tout Wars auctions are done, pricing players at $1 more than their Tout Wars price. Draft day rosters are held all season long, and then combined with the Tout Wars draft day roster to form one big roto standings.
The team with the highest average rank in the TW 5×5 categories is the champion.
The highest Tout Wars finisher in Doubt was Scott Pianowski, who finished third overall. He finished sixth in Tout’s full season Mixed Auction league.
Pierce’s team had four 20/20 hitters and a solid rotation led by Noah Syndergaard, Kenta Maeda and Anthony DeSclafani.
For a second time, congratulations Jonathan!
Jonathan Pierce has edged out If You Build It They Will Come for the 2016 Doubt Wars NL championship.
Doubt Wars players put together dream rosters after the Tout
Wars auctions are done, pricing players at $1 more than their Tout Wars price. Draft day rosters are held all season long, and then combined with the Tout Wars draft day roster to form one big roto standings.
The team with the highest average rank in the TW 5×5 categories is the champion.
This year’s highest finishing Tout NL owner was champion Todd Zola, who finished fifth overall in Doubt Wars.
Pierce’s team was built around big seasons from Wil Myers, Gregory Polanco, Wilson Ramos and Trevor Story, plus Tanner Roark, Noah Syndergaard and Anthony DiSclafani. (Update: This story was originally and incorrectly published with the roster from Pierce’s Doubt Mixed team. Sorry about that.)
Congratulations Jonathan Pierce!
Look for the Doubt Wars Mixed results in the next day or so.
Though Tout Wars leagues are not money leagues, one way to measure a tout’s success is to pay the winners as if there were money involved.
Each year we charge each entry an imaginary $100, then divide the purse to the top 33 percent of the winners, with first place earning 50 percent and each place behind that half as much. In 15 team leagues the payouts are $674, $287, $93, -$3, -$51. In 12 team leagues the payouts are $540, $220, $60, $-20.
With his rookie win in Tout H2H, Jeff Zimmerman has the highest average win per season, slightly ahead of Adam Ronis, who has two firsts and fourth in his three season.
Ronis is tied with Fred Zinkie, on average. Zinkie has three firsts, two seconds and a fourth in his six seasons. Zinkie’s winning total is second overall, a little behind Tout Wars’ six time champion Larry Schechter.
Head over to the chart to see how the Touts are doing.
More recaps are on their way.
AL: Michaels
NL: Gianella (free at Baseball Prospectus)
Mix Draft: Ronis (mp3, 10mb, interview with Nando Di Fino on FNTSY Sports Network, embedded)
H2H: Zimmerman (free at Rotowire) | Zimmerman (free at RotoGraphs) | Kreutzer | Hershey (preseason post, he finished second, so its of interest)
Jeff Zimmerman is officially the Tout Wars H2H champion. Followed closely behind by Brent Hershey.
To see the final H2H standings visit onRoto.com.
