Mastersball.com‘s comments and charts are in, now that the May 4 FAAB is completed. Read it here!
Mike Gianella covers Tout Wars and LABR FAAB claims for the week. Read it here!
Category: FAAB
Tout Wars FAAB Reports for April 27!
The Mastersball crew charts and comments on this week’s big moves. Rob Leibowitz goes AL, Brian Walton NL, Zach Steinhorn on Mixed Auction, and Perry Van Hook on Mixed Draft. The big buys were Jimmy Paredes, Addison Russell and John Axford.
Mike Gianella does deep analysis of Tout Wars moves (and LABR, too) over at Baseball Prospectus, including an intriguing digression on Mjölnir, Thor’s hammer in both Norse mythology and Marvel comics.
Your April 20 FAAB REPORT LINKS For TOUT WARS!
Mastersball.com takes on Tout NL, AL, Mixed Draft and Mixed Auction, with commentaries from Todd Zola, Brian Walton, Zach Steinhorn and Perry Van Hook.
Mike Gianella has some notes about Tout NL, as well as some LABR leagues.
April 13 Tout Wars FAAB Reports
This week’s AL, NL, Mixed Auction and Mixed Draft claims, commented on by the Mastersball staff.
Baseball Prospectus’s Mike Gianella looks at this week’s Tout AL and NL moves. As well as LABR!
Dueling Tout FAAB Reports
This year you’ll have two sources of notes about the weekly FAAB and claims from Tout Wars.
Long time compilers, Mastersball, continue their ongoing series of FAAB grids and comments, about each week’s buys and claims.
This year, Baseball Prospectus resumes a series it has run in the past, commenting on the week’s moves each Tuesday from a few different expert leagues.
Mixed Draft Redemption Schedule
This year, for the first time, Tout Wars Mixed Draft owners will be able to redeem the draft day “price” of a player for FAAB dollars, if a player he owns goes on the Disabled List. The rule reads, in part:
If a player who was bought in the auction is placed on a major league disabled list, 7-day, 15-day or 60-day, his Tout Wars team may release him and ask his SWAT to add the player’s auction salary back to this year’s FAAB. In the Mixed Draft league, players will be given dollar values based upon the prices paid in the Mixed Auction league. For instance, the first player drafted will take the value of the most expensive player taken in auction. Similarly, the 20th player drafted will have the price of the 20th most expensive player bought in auction, regardless of position.
The Redemption Price List can be found here.
Final Mastersball.com SWAT report: September 22, 2014
The last Bidmeister run came at midnight last night, and players were bought with whatever FAAB remained. As it does each week, mastersball.com has compiled the bids and the results, with commentary about the action. You can read it here.
This week they’ve combined the Tout Wars and LABR reports. Even if you don’t care much about LABR, it’s worth getting past the LABR portion for Todd Zola’s take on FAAB rules and procedures.
We’ll be talking about some of these this winter at Tout Wars Headquarters. I’ve never played with a 1000 unit budget, but look forward to hearing people’s experiences dealing with it.
Mastersball.com FAAB Report, Sept. 15, 2014: Don’t Ignore the Ratios
Mastersball tracks all the week’s FAAB in the four Tout Wars leagues, and then Lord Zola goes the extra mile, demonstrating that even in the season’s final weeks there is movement (or potential for movement) in all the categories.
There is.