Category: AL

The Tout Wars Market

Derek Carty writes for Baseball Prospectus and has been a Tout Warrior since 2010. He is part of a startup called FantasySquared, which is a new game that creates small stock markets that allow fantasy team owners to trade shares in their fellow owners’ teams, perhaps backing the winning team in their league as their own team fades.

The website has just launched, and one of the first leagues available for public trading is Tout Wars. You can sign up at the site and start building your portfolio right away. Rotoman bought a couple hundred shares of his team to win, because he’s confident, and 100 shares of Lenny’s team, because he bid up Rotoman’s prime stud hitter target, Hunter Pence, until he was out of reach.

Derek shared the implied odds thus far for all three Tout Wars leagues. Is there really wisdom in crowds? We’ll find out better once a critical mass has joined the site. But here’s the results of a small sampling: Continue reading “The Tout Wars Market”

The Roster Changes…

With one week until the draft, Joe Sheehan withdrew from this year’s Tout Wars AL, setting in motion a series of changes.

1) Chris Liss moves from the NL to the AL.

2) Derek Carty moves from the Mixed to the NL.

3) Zach Steinhorn, of mlb.com and mastersball.com, joins the Mixed league.

For a complete list of who is playing where, visit the Players page.

2012 Rules Changes in Tout: Swingman Baby!

We’ve always looked at Tout Wars as an incubator for new ideas about how to play fantasy baseball. The game is a living thing, and we take seriously a responsibility to try out new rules that we think have an opportunity to be of use in other leagues.

After a far ranging rules talk among league participants by email and on this website last fall, we decided this year to clarify some previously enacted rules and introduce one significant new wrinkle: The Swingman. Continue reading “2012 Rules Changes in Tout: Swingman Baby!”

TOUT WARS AL 2012: Your Lineup

This year’s Tout Wars AL slate, in order of the first round of reserve picks. The number after their names is the amount of FAAB money they start with this year. # indicates a TW AL rookie. [UPDATE: Reserve Order Fixed!]

Larry Schechter (100)

Jeff Erickson (100)

Joe Sheehan (100)

Rob Leibowitz (100)

Matthew Berry (100)

Rick Wolf/Glenn Colton (100)

Jason Collette (100)

Andy Behrens (100) #

Ron Shandler (99)

Steve Moyer (96)

Mike Siano (87)

Lawr Michaels (85)

The Tout Wars AL Draft will be held on March 24 at 9am. Follow details here at toutwars.com and #toutwars.

 

The 2011 TOUT AL Hypothetical Standings

 

I first came upon Hypothetical Standings in the legendary reports of stat service pioneer Jerry Heath. The idea is simple: Compute the standings based on the Draft Day rosters of teams, using the actual stats they accumulated this year to see just how much of their success or failure came via the draft, and concomitantly how well their inseason moves helped their chances.

These draft day rosters don’t tell you why the teams that did poorly failed. It could have been injuries or buying Adam Dunn. The point is that these are the teams each owner bought in the auction, and how they would have ended up in a Draft and Hold league.

Continue reading “The 2011 TOUT AL Hypothetical Standings”