The Mastersball crew sifts through the week’s FAAB winners and losers in all five Tout Wars leagues every Monday.
Mike Gianella gives a closer look at the Tout NL FAAB process each week on Tuesday, as well as LABR AL and Mixed.
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April 17, 2017 Tout Wars FAAB Reports
Mastersball covers all of this week’s Tout leagues transactions and LABR, too.
While Mike Gianella at Baseball Prospectus tackles Tout AL and NL, and LABR mixed (which might be a little like Tout mixed).
Week 1 FAAB Commentaries
They’ve just started playing and already there are FAAB commentaries.
Mastersball writes up all the leagues here.
Mike Gianella’s AL and NL coverage at Baseball Prospectus is here.
Both Masters and Mike also write up some LABR leagues, if you want more!
The Touts Talk About Their Drafts!
The (spreadsheet) with auction results is here. Use the tabs for each league.
Steve Gardner wrote a general piece about Tout Weekend. Jake Ceily with lessons learned from the Tout auctions. Howard Bender on strategy, and Sporer and Zinkie at Tout.
Tout Mixed Draft: Gonos | Gamble | Ronis | White | Murphy (baseballHQ subscribers only)
Tout Head 2 Head: Bender | Ciely | Link | Bell (by Mason) | Kreutzer
Tout AL: Leibowitz | Erickson | Liss | Davitt | Michaels
Tout Mixed Auction: Zimmerman (previews Replacement Level | Player evaluations | Final Standings | League Tendencies) | Flowers | Zinkie and Steinhorn | Shandler | Melchior | VanRiper | Heaney/VanRiper Podcast | Sayre | Pianowski | Swanay
Tout NL: Gianella | Albright | Behrens | Cockcroft | Gardner | Walton
Why Jeff Erickson Came in Last in Tout Wars in 2016. By Jeff Erickson
Post mortems are tough. You try to explain your team, your thinking, your approach, and you constantly run the risk of sounding like you’re talking about your fantasy team! Which is a no-no, of course.
Jeff Erickson gives his 2016 Tout Wars team a post mortem. It was an ugly season for Jeff, and he fearless wades into the mess to explain why. SPOILER ALERT: Hitting.
But he does such good, honest job it’s worth the read to learn how to do your own post-mortem. Read it here. It’s on the free side of Rotowire.
Post Mortems: How The Touts’ Seasons Went
More recaps are on their way.
AL: Michaels
NL: Gianella (free at Baseball Prospectus)
Mix Draft: Ronis (mp3, 10mb, interview with Nando Di Fino on FNTSY Sports Network, embedded)
H2H: Zimmerman (free at Rotowire) | Zimmerman (free at RotoGraphs) | Kreutzer | Hershey (preseason post, he finished second, so its of interest)
Tout Wars on the Last Day of the 2016 Season, Probably.
Today is the last day of the 2016 season, unless either or both St. Louis and Detroit win, in which case there might be a playoff and makeup game played on Monday. And then, if things go right (or wrong, depending on your perspective) there could be another playoff game on Tuesday. It’s all delineated in this story at mlb.com.
With that in mind, here’s a look at today’s action, with links to the onRoto pages where you can see the live standings (click Live Scoring in the left nav of each league’s page to see up-to-the-minute results):
Tout Head 2 Head: Jeff Zimmerman is up 3-2 in pitching over Andrea LaMont, and tied 2-2 in hitting. But it’s close! If Jeff wins a single “game” today, he is league champ. If he loses both pitching and hitting, Brent Hershey will likely win in a tie-breaker.
Tout Mixed Draft: While you would rather be Adam Ronis, up two points on Rudy Gamble, there are a number of tight pitching categories that could turn for both teams, depending on how they do today (and tomorrow, and Tuesday). It ain’t over, but Ronis, last year’s champ, is up, over Gamble, last year’s second place finisher, for now.
Tout Mixed Auction: Zach Steinhorn is up five and a half points over Fred Zinkie. If Zinkie were to pass Steinhorn in strikeouts (he’s only seven behind) Steinhorn could conceivably collapse his way out of the lead. The only problem? Steinhorn has three starters today, Zinkie none. Game to Steinhorn, probably.
Tout NL: This is one to watch. Todd Zola is ahead of Derek Carty by three points, but there are points to win and lose for one or both of them in almost every category. Todd, like Ronis in Mixed Draft, is surely glad to be up, but this one is too close to call.
Tout AL: It’s possible to conceive a scenario in which Patrick Davitt catches Seth Trachtman as Trachtman swoons on the final day to lose his five and a half point lead. There are enough points in potential play to see how it could happen, but the odds of such a perfectly awful storm for Trachtman are very slight.
September 26 FAAB Reports!
We’re down to the final days, but we have some races and Mastersball has some comments about this week’s FAAB pickups.
Mike Gianella’s last notes from Baseball Prospectus this year.