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Your Guide to Tout Wars 2023!

Here’s one-stop for the schedule of drafts and auctions, links to the draft boards, and links to How Did I Do links from the Touts:

3/19: Tout Head to Head (2:30 pm ET) Draft Board
Recap: Ariel Cohen (podcast) | Michael Govier | Greg Jewett | Frank Ammirante | Joe Gallina (podcast)

3/19: Tout NL (9 am ET) Draft Board
Recaps: Peter Kreutzer | Steve Gardner | Phil Hertz/Dave Adler | Grey Albright | Eric Halterman

3/18: Tout Mixed Auction (2:30 pm ET) Draft Board
Recaps: Scott Pianowski | Zach Steinhorn | Alex Chamberlain | Scott Swanay | Scott Engel | Scott Chu (podcast) |

3/18: Tout AL (9 am ET) Draft Board
Recaps: Mike Podhorzer | Jeff Erickson | Jason Collette | Rob Leibowitz |

3/6/23: Tout Mixed 15: Draft Board
Recaps: AJ Mass | Rudy Gamble | DJ Short and Shelly Verougstraete | Scott White | Ryan Bloomfield/Ray Murphy/Brian “Bubba” Entrekin Live Stream | Mike Gianella (need free basic subscription) |

2/28/23: Tout Mixed 12: Draft Board
Recaps: Andy Behrens | Jen Piacenti | Chris Towers | Matt Trussell | Tim McCullough | Sara Sanchez/Alex Fast |

2/21/23: Tout Draft and Hold: Draft Board
Recaps: Michael Stein | Brad Johnson (strategy piece) | Mike Alexander |

Also, follow all the March 18-19 festivities live on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio!

Tout Wars Draft and Hold is over!

Check out the draft board here.

Nando Di Fino talks about his team with Derek VanRiper on their podcast.

Michael Stein’s article about his team.

James Anderson writes about all his industry leagues, including Tout Draft and Hold.

Brad Johnson writes about his draft.

Tout Wars Mixed 15 Draft is Finished!

See the full draft results here. Click tabs for different leagues.

Scott White writes about his draft here.

Rudy Gamble writes about how his draft went here.

Charlie Wiegert’s recap (part 1) is right here. And like the Godfather, it has a part 2 right here.

Mike Gianella’s story of his draft at Baseball Prospectus out from behind the paywall.

Tout Wars 2021: Here Are Your Champions

The season is in the bag, and surprisingly no playoff games to enliven our Monday. Here’s a quick rundown of the 2021 winners:

AL: Glenn Colton and Rick Wolf win their third Tout AL title.

NL: Fred Zinkie wins his second consecutive Tout NL title, and fifth Tout title overall.

Mixed Auction: Jeff Zimmerman wins his second Tout Mixed Auction title, and third Tout title overall.

H2H: Frank Stampfl wins his first Tout title.

Mixed Draft 12: Alex Fast win the first ever Tout Mixed Draft 12 title.

Mixed Draft 15: Adam Ronis wins his third Mixed Draft 15 championship.

Draft and Hold: Alan Harrison and Matt Williams share the glory, the first ever tied-after-the-tiebreaker co-championship.

Tout Daily: Ryan Bloomfield topped this year’s field. (Teams gained entry to the finals by winning each week, which is why Carty has so many entries. He won multiple weeks.)

Tout Head 2 Head Coverage is Here, Chat and Draft Board

Follow the draft board here. The reserve rounds will be here.

No radio coverage of this one, but the transcript of the Derek VanRiper chat below.

[Mar 15, 2:45 PM] DerekVanRiper: Hello!
[Mar 15, 2:45 PM] DerekVanRiper: I had to prep some chicken for quinoa chicken soup…exciting times here at home in Madison.
[Mar 15, 2:50 PM] KingerThePW: What time is this draft supposed to start?
[Mar 15, 2:51 PM] DerekVanRiper: 3p ET
[Mar 15, 2:54 PM] DerekVanRiper: Very curious to see how the league adjusts to the scoring settings for today.
[Mar 15, 2:54 PM] rotoman: Hi Derek, I just gave you magical moderator powers, in case you need them.
[Mar 15, 2:54 PM] DerekVanRiper: Thanks, Peter!
[Mar 15, 2:54 PM] Chamberlain: it looks like fantrax successfully imported the scoring settings, or else the similarities are but a pleasant coincidence
[Mar 15, 2:55 PM] rotoman: You may see me here later, but I’m zonked from hearing the auction call some 280 times in the last five hours.
[Mar 15, 2:55 PM] DerekVanRiper: Totally understandable
[Mar 15, 2:56 PM] Guest7477: Very interested to see how a delayed season would affect pitcher adps
[Mar 15, 2:56 PM] rotoman: You heard it about 330 times yesterday afternoon. How did you stand it?
[Mar 15, 2:56 PM] DerekVanRiper: I played music over it during the Mixed Auction
[Mar 15, 2:57 PM] DerekVanRiper: I think the going once/going twice/sold audio in every auction room can lag a little anyway, so it doesn’t help me much.
[Mar 15, 2:57 PM] rotoman: The big thing with the pitchers is the guys injured now regain their standing, depending on when you expect the games to resume.
[Mar 15, 2:57 PM] rotoman: Very wise, Derek.
[Mar 15, 2:57 PM] Guest7477: i just wonder if the end pitch count for most big arms will be like 160 ip instead of 210+

Continue reading “Tout Head 2 Head Coverage is Here, Chat and Draft Board”

Finally!

A link to the Draft and Hold standings is now in the Tout Data section of the right sidebar at toutwars.com. Click the Draft and Hold link and you’ll be taken to the standings for the league (and a lot more about it) at onRoto.com.

And take a moment to congratulate Mike Sheets, who has a formidable lead over Matt Modica and Ariel Cohen. Sorry for the delay fellas.