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Category: Draft Results
When Are The Tout Wars Auctions This Weekend?
The Tout Wars auctions (and Tout X draft) are being hosted at City Crab, a restaurant on the corner of 19th Street and Park Avenue South in New York City. You can visit us there.
The Tout AL, NL and Mixed Auctions (with Tout X coverage) will be covered live, on site, by SiriusXM radio.
With a live chatroom and spreadsheet from the auctions here at toutwars.com.
The official schedule of Tout Wars events
Friday 8pm (March 20): Party with the touts at the Playwright Celtic Pub, 732 Eighth Ave. (near 47th Street). Third floor. Password is TOUT to enter.
Saturday 9am (March 21): Tout Wars AL Auction, City Crab
Saturday 3pm (March 21): Tout Wars Mixed Auction, City Crab
Saturday 4pm (March 21): Tout Wars X draft/auction, City Crab
Saturday 8pm (March 21): Party at Foleys! (18 West 33rd Street, NY). Guinness will be etching glasses!
Sunday 10am (March 22): Tout Wars NL Auction, City Crab
Tout Mixed Draft Roundups
MLB.com’s Zach Steinhorn | Fantasy Fix’s Alan Harrison
The Touts: Grey Albright | Paul Sporer | Perry Van Hook | Rudy Gamble | Eno Sarris | Adan Ronis | Ray Murphy
Live Blog Tout Wars Mixed Draft: March 10 at 8pm, Done!
Countdown to Tout Wars Mixed Draft!
Game time is March 10, at 8pm.
Live radio coverage on SiriusXM, with Colton and the Wolfman.
We’ll have links here to the live spreadsheet, from RTsports.com, shortly.
2015 Tout Wars MIXED DRAFT
Tout Wars mandates that each year’s draft order is determined by last year’s finish. Since draft picks are not necessarily valued in the order they come, owners are polled for their preferences of pick. The following is the draft order they’ve selected:
Tim McLeod (100) 2014 Champion
Brent Hershey (100)
Perry Van Hook (100) Explains why he moved down one spot.
Adam Ronis (100)
Tom Kessenich (100)
Rick Wilton (100) Returning. Last result was ninth place finish in Tout AL in 2010.
Grey Albright (89)
Ray Murphy (100)
Eno Sarris (85)
Greg Ambrosius (83)
Paul Sporer (93)
Rudy Gamble (100) New to Tout Wars.
Paul Greco (99)
Charlie Wiegert (95)
Anthony Perri (100)
Doubt Wars AL: The Final Standings
Rick Wolf and Glenn Colton had a year for the ages. They crushed the Doubt Wars competition again this year, as they did in 2013, too. Only this time they also won Tout Wars. Very impressive performances for the boys from Fantasy Alarm.
On the civilian side, the Ohio Wolverines edged Freedman’s Bureau for the top spot. Here are the full standings (gray teams are actual Tout Wars draft day stats).
The Ohio Wolverines winning roster (click to enlarge):
You Gotta Doubt! Most selected Doubt Wars players
Doubt Wars takes the temperature of Tout Wars. A look at the most selected players shows which players thought Tout Wars undervalued most. The listed Doubt Wars price is $1 more than the Tout Owner paid.
National League of Doubt (39 DW Teams)
1. Mike Olt, $6 (20 DW owners)
2. Rex Brothers, $7 (19)
3. Chris Owings, $8 (16)
4. Jenry Mejia, $2 (15)
5. Dillon Gee, $5 (14)
5. Junior Lake, $9 (14)
5. Mike Morse, $7 (14)
5. Peter Bourjos, $7 (14)
9. Jim Henderson, $12 (13)
9. Mark Trumbo, $23 (13)
Other players that at least 10 Doubt owners selected were Dee Gordon ($8), Alex Wood ($10), Travis D’Arnaud ($10), Ervin Santana ($9), AJ Pollock ($10), Dan Uggla ($9), Scooter Gennett ($4) and Starlin Castro ($16).
The 39 DW Team had 897 roster slots, and rostered 220 different players. (25 percent)
American League of Doubt (34 DW Teams)
1. Grady Sizemore, $7 (13 DW owners)
1. Mike Moustakas, $11 (13)
3. Jose Altuve, $19 (12)
4. Alejandro De Aza, $11 (11)
4. Yordano Ventura, $10 (11)
6. Aaron Hicks, $3 (10)
6. Asdrubal Cabrera, $14 (10)
6. Erasmo Ramirez, $4 (10)
6. Felix Hernandez, $26 (10)
6. Jose Quintana, $7 (10)
6. Michael Pineda, $5 (10)
6. Sergio Santos, $5 (10)
Other players that at least 9 Doubt AL owners selected were Jesse Crain ($2), Adam Eaton ($16), Billy Butler ($21), Dustin Ackley ($9), Ivan Nova ($9) and Mike Zunino ($5).
A total of 232 different players were taken by AL Doubters to fill 782 roster slots. (29 percent)
Mixed League of Doubt (49 DW Teams)
1. Trevor Rosenthal, $17 (20 DW owners)
2. Justin Verlander, $21 (17)
3. Corey Kluber, $7 (13)
4. David Ortiz, $18 (12)
4. Nolan Arenado, $8 (12)
4. Yan Gomes, $7 (12)
7. Cole Hamels, $10 (11)
7. Chris Archer, $6 (11)
7. Jason Heyward, $21 (11)
7. Yordano Ventura, $7 (11)
Other players that 10 Doubt Mixed owners chose were Billy Butler ($12), Dee Gordon ($1), Khris Davis ($8), Victor Martinez ($6), and Will Venable ($5).
A total of 312 different players were taken by Mixed Doubters to fill 1127 different roster slots. (27 percent)
Conclusion
Was Mike Olt was the most underpriced player in Tout Wars this year? Or is he the player who elicits the most divisive range of opinions? Or are both things true?
I’m not sure there’s a clear answer to that sort of question, but these lists do seem to be populated by players of whom there is disagreement. Â Players to consider more closely before making up your mind.
TOUT Mortems: How Do They Like Their Drafts 2014?
The Tout Wars auctions are in the books. The lobby of SiriusXM once again looks like a sophisticated and refined business space, rather than a Phi Epsilon Tout frat basement. (But what happened to the Keith Richards and Paul McCartney autographs on the wall?) All the partygoers made it home from Foleys safely, though there were close calls. And some people are writing about their teams.
The spreadsheet with all results is here.
NL: Gardner Kreutzer Gianella Zola Hertz || RotoAdvice
AL: Jason Collette Podhorzer Erickson Leibowitz Michaels Behrens Erickson and Liss Shandler || RotoAdvice
MIXED AUCTION: Swanay Gonos 1 Guilfoyle Flowers Singman Heaney Zinkie Steinhorn Davitt Gonos 2|| Michaels
MIXED DRAFT: Van Hook Minnix Sporer Ronis Murphy
The Baseball Prospectus Flags Fly Forever podcast Episode 12 has extended Tout Wars discussion about NL, AL and Mixed Auction, featuring Bret Sayre, Mike Gianella and Mauricio Rubio.
You can hear of more by following #toutwars on Twitter.