Baseballprospectus.com’s Jason Collette survey’s this week’s Tout Wars claims.
Category: FAAB
FAAB Rules! Or, the Rules of FAAB.
Mike Gianella takes a look at how the Tout FAAB rules played a part in how Tout teams bid on the Biggest Day of the Year!
To add some context, we implemented the rule change for the transaction period following the ML interleague trading deadline because we wanted teams to be able to bid more than they had in their budget, including contingent bids. The Aug 2 rules allowed that.
In every other Tout Wars week, teams aren’t allowed to bid, for their main bid plus contingent bids, more than they have, total.
What is interesting is that in every other week of the year, nobody notices the contingent bid restriction. Also of note is that some owners this year asked us to simplify the rules and play like other leagues play.
I’m interested in hearing about how other leagues play. In the variety of leagues I play in there is a variety of ways FAAB or Waiver Dollars are dealt with. I’m of the opinion that whatever you all decide upon is fine, but there is a real virtue to restricting the total bids any team can make, actual and contingent, to the total amount of FAAB (Waiver Dollars) they have.
Why? I think it’s more strategic. Mid tier teams can strategize and capitalize on their analysis of other team’s needs. In a system that allows teams to stack contingent bids using all their available Waiver Dollars, mid level teams don’t have a chance.
But it’s okay if think they don’t deserve a chance. I agree to disagree.
Todd Zola Has Dough!
Todd plays in Tout NL, but his advice in this story about FAAB applies to any league.
Nick Minnix on Chris Tillman, Who He FAABed in TW Mixed
He explains why here.
Brian Walton: FAABing Juan Guttierez, a tale of two championships
Tout NL Leader by a lot writes at creativesports.com about why football just isn’t that important to him right now.
Tout AL 7/27 Swat
GREY
Rel Mills. $Claim R Rowland Smith ($19. Next Moyer 6 Peterson 5 Sheehan 2. Vickery: $7)
BERRY
Rel R Hill. Claim C Meredith.
PETERSON
May not reclaim Matt Harrison, who is still on the 15 day DL.
DL Westbrook. $Claim Matt Palmer ($1. Next: $0. Vickery: $1)
Res Wise. Activate Gordon.
Cut Cunningham, if necessary.
WALKER
Rel W Balentien. Res Anderson. $Claim C Gimenez ($4. Next: Collette $4. Vickery: $4)
Res Linebrink. $Claim J Sowers ($1. Next: $0. Vickery: $1)
MOYER
Res Cormier. Act Ryan Perry.
SHEEHAN
Rel Dellucci. $Claim B Wallace ($1. Next: none Vickery: $1)
COLLETTE
$Claim M Saunders. ($24. Next: Siano 20, Grey 19, Peterson 15, Erickson 15, Michaels 7, Berry 6, Moyer 6. Vickery: $21)
COLTON
Res Griffey. Activate K Millar.
Res Brignac. Claim Valencia.
Res Olsen. Claim Coke.
CUTS: Olsen, Crowe
ERICKSON
Res Kotsay. $Claim E Peterson ($13. Next: Colton 4, Sheehan 1. Vickery: $5)
Res C Davis. $Claim D Barton ($7. Next: Sheehan 2, Colton 2. Vickery: $3)
Res Millwood. Claim Tony Pena.
CUT: Kotsay
SHANDLER
Res WOod. Cut Freel. $Claim LaRoche ($69. Next: Colton $60, Collette 32, Peterson 25, Moyer 21, Siano 20, Grey 19. Vickery: $61)
Res Mazzaro. Act Laffey.
SIANO
Cut Salazar. Act C Guillen.
MICHAELS
losing bid
Tout Mixed 7/27 Swat
trades:
Petera trades Oswalt and Ross and $3 FAAB to Schechter for Damon and Jones (sounds like a law firm).
FAAB:
Dennis
Matthews $1 (41 vickery)
Kastner
Pearce $5 (12 vickery)
Liss
Laffey $6 (7 vickery)
Melky $5 (9 vickery)
LaPorta $4 (7 vickery)
Hoyos
Park $1 (3 vickery)
Clippard $1 (3 vickery)
Delwyn Young $2 (3 vickery)
Pliml
Gomes $1 (15 vickery)
Moss $1 (1 vickery)
Staman $5 (7 vickery)
Petera
M. Saunders $1 (8 vickery)
Karabell
Lugo $8 (7 vickery)
Coste $1 (7 vickery)
Schechter
Gutherie $1 (4 vickery)
Salfino
VandenHurk $4 (6 vickery)
French $4 (5 vickery)
Behrens
Cahill $1 (17 vickery)
Van Hook
Hart $1 (2 vickery)
Roberts
Dillard $2 (4 vickery)
Rowand-Snith $1 (3 vickery)
Tout NL 7/27 SWAT
A. Trades
– HERTZ trades Joe Blanton, $15 FAAB; ZOLA trades Dexter Fowler, Luke Gregerson.
B. 60-day DL Redemption:
– KREUTZER cashes in on Anibal Sanchez – originally $3, but after the All-Star break, so half-value. All fractions rounded up – so he gets $2 in return.
C. Free Agents
WILDERMAN
– Picks up Matt Holliday for $94 (Wilderman 94; Ravitz 42; Kreutzer 54; Lombardo 89; Cockcroft 94; Pianowski 25); drops Greg Norton.
WALTON
– Picks up Julio Lugo for $30 (Ravitz 27; Hertz 14; Leibowitz 13; Lombardo 29; Pianowski 25; Walton 52); drops Joe Beimel.
HERTZ
– Pick up Matt Daley for $0; drop Oscar Salazar
– Pick up Alex Cora for $1 (Hertz 3; Leibowitz 0); drop Anderson Hernandez.
– Pick up Tyler Clippard for $5 (Hertz 5; Kreutzer 0; Lombardo 0; Pianowski 1 (cont); Walton 4); drop Yusmeiro Petit.
– Drop Garrett Mock as result of trade.
LEIBOWITZ:
– Pick up Cory Sullivan for $0; DL Jordan Zimmermann.
LOMBARDO:
– Pick up Luis Rodriguez for $0; drop Jordan Schafer.
– Pick up Kevin Hart for $0; drop Jason Motte.
– Pick up Livan Hernandez for $0; drop Mike Ekstrom.
MELNICK:
– Pick up Jhoulys Chacin for $0 (Melnick 0, Walton 0); DL Manny Corpas.
PIANOWSKI:
– Pick up Ramon Vazquez for $0 (Wilderman 0; Leibowitz 0; Pianowski 0); fills open spot.
– Pick up Jose Lobaton for $0; DL Ramon Hernandez.
– Pick up Chan Ho Park for $1; drop Jeff Karstens.
– Pick up Rick VandenHurk for $1 (Wilderman 0; Kreutzer 0; Pianowski 6); fills open spot.