Category: Draft Results

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.

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Tout Wars Mixed Draft Analysis Part 2, by the Sporting Hippeaux

For Gene McCaffrey, Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3.

Tout Wars Mixed Draft Analysis Part 2.

It makes one wonder, Sporting Hippeaux, where’s Part 1? Here it is. Tout Wars Mixed Draft Analysis Part 1.

Hey, Ian Dury, where’s Parts 1 and 2?

Tout Warriors Toot About Their Teams

AL: Mastersball/Zola | MLB.com | Rotowire | Mastersball/Lawr | ESPN (Audio, 10+ mins in) | Baseball Prospectus (subscribers) | BaseballHQ | Rotoworld

NL: MLB.com | Askrotoman | Rotowire | Yahoo | Rotothinktank | USA Today | Mastersball | ESPN (Audio, 10+ mins in) | FantasyPros911

Mix: Yahoo | fantasybaseball.com | Hardball Times | FantasybaseballSherpa | Si.com | MLB.com | Rotoexperts | Wall Street Journal | KFFL/Heaney | KFFL/Minnix

Tout Mixed Draft 2011--Defending champ Andy Behrens and contenders at work

The perspectives of others

Tout vet Mike Salfino looks at how Yankee and Met players fared for wsj.com

Enjoy some photos from the drafts

This year’s Tout NL spreadsheet keeper John Toczydlowski shares some thoughts about Tout Weekend.

The crew at MLB.com made a video.

Eric Mack wishes he’d followed his own draft advice at Tout Wars.

 

TOUT NL DRAFT: Done!

See the draft spreadsheet here.

Click the console below for a replay of the the live blog.

TOUT MIXED Draft Live Blog, 3pm here: IT’S OVER!

The live blog is done. Click the console below to relive the auction with Jason Collette and a cast of many. The final spreadsheet with the draft’s full results is here.

Tout AL: Jason Collette’s Draft Day Accounting

In this story for RotoTimes, Jason Collette takes inventory on how each Tout AL team’s draft day roster has performed.

This approach has the virtue of isolating what it was that teams did right (and wrong) on draft day, whether these things were in their control or not.

Most interestingly, only Jason Grey’s runaway leading team has posted a positive value since draft day, and that is just +$2.

Also of interest is the big draft day hit Mike Siano’s team has taken, in large part by paying $29 for Grady Sizemore on draft day. But, as Jason points out, Mike dealt Sizemore to Jeff Erickson the day before Sizemore crashed and burned for the season (for Cliff Lee–ouch), so it was Erickson who who paid most of the price. That doesn’t show in these numbers.

There are a lot of components to a fantasy baseball season. Draft day is one part. Jason’s survey gives some idea how important a good draft is to fielding a winning team. And how tough it is to overcome cataclysmic injury, unless you’re Mike Siano.

TOUT NL: Midseason Report

Ask Rotoman is here to kick some second half butt. That’s the message the frontrunners in Tout NL, Brian Walton and Nate Ravitz, should take away from this midseason report. They should be afraid, very afraid. Kreutzer isn’t in last place any more.

Granted, this is what happens when an active participant writes the midseason report. Hopped up on a two-week run that netted him something like 20 points, and brought him out of the basement and into the middle of the pack, the so-called Rotoman is psyched up by the reemergence of Lance Berkman, the chance that Aramis Ramirez won’t be a nightmare from here on out, that the heretofore worthless but free spirited Yunel Escobar will be invigorated out from under Bobby Cox’s authoritarian and crushing breath. If all that happens, it won’t be enough.

But the reemergence of Edinson Volquez, who has looked so good during his minor league rehabs, and the continued brilliance of Chris Carpenter and Roy Halladay, could be enough to get this team into running. And speaking of running, what happens if Carlos Beltran actually can run a little? Rotoman’s team gets a lot better, that’s for sure. Continue reading “TOUT NL: Midseason Report”