The commentary from Mastersball.com.
Mike Gianella at Baseball Prospectus weighs in.
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September Call Ups: FAAB Commentaries for September 5!
Mastersball’s commentary on five Tout Wars leagues can be found here, including Tout NL leading Todd Zola’s rationale for picking up Adam Morgan this week.
Mike Gianella’s comments on Tout AL, Tout NL and LABR Mixed are right here.
August 15 Tout Wars FAAB Reports Posted Now!
Mastersball weighs in on all five TW Leagues, plus Todd offers a nice hat tip to our friends at Baseball HQ.
Mike Gianella’s FAAB report at Baseball Prospectus covers AL and NL Tout, as well as LABR Mixed (with references to the Tout wars prices in mixed).
August 8 Tout FAABaganza Commentaries.
The big trading-deadline FAAB bids have been made. Who are the winners? Who are the losers?
Mastersball has all the action here.
George Bissell of Baseball Prospectus takes on Tout AL and NL, plus LABR mixed, with his commentary here.
This Tout Wars FAAB Links for August 1!
Mastersball on all the week’s moves here.
Mini FAAB Reports for July 18!
A second FAAB run, three days after the last, but there is still action, especially for a man named Pomeranz. Todd Zola and his henchmen at Mastersball have comments on five leagues.
Mike Gianella tackles the Pomeranz issue, too, with charts, plus all the other moves in Tout AL and NL, with some mixed league discussion too at Baseball Prospectus.
Jeff Erickson Tops Tout Daily Field with Strasburg and Pham!
The top two Tout Daily teams last night rostered Stephen Strasburg and Thomas Pham, and when the two players combined for 32 points those teams gained an edge. (Only Hector Santiago (18) and Chris Taylor (18) scored more points on the night, and no team owned them both.)
But after that the two leaders went about accumulating points in different ways.
Winner Jeff Erickson also got strong contributions from Paul Goldschmidt, Randal Grichuk, Stephen Piscotty, and Jonathan Villar. Of this group only Piscotty was owned by more than 5 percent of RTSports.com teams last night.
Jeff also had no players who scored a zero, and got double-digit points from the night’s most expensive pitcher, Madison Bumgarner, even though he failed to win his game.
The second place finisher, Eno Sarris, did get a win from his second pitcher. But Carlos Carrasco only scored .66 more points than Bumgarner.
Sarris also suffered from a no-point night oh-fer from Travis d’Arnaud, but still finished a solid second because of strong performances by Yasiel Puig, Travis Shaw, Howie Kendrick, and Addison Russell. Only Kendrick was owned by more than two percent of RTSports.com owners.
The rest of the night’s results sent the Period 4 competition topsy turvy, as only Todd Zola and Bret Sayre repeated in the Top 10 from the previous week.
Zola, the only player to finish in the Top 10 all three weeks so far, has a huge lead on the whole field, leading Erickson by 16 points and ahead of the rest of the pack by 23. You can see the whole leaderboard here.
While anything can happen, the final week of Period 4 looks to be a battle among Zola, Erickson, and Mike Gianella, Howard Bender, Eno Sarris, Tom Kessenich, Brian Walton and Derek VanRiper for the three Golden Tickets.
Of that group only Jeff Erickson and Brian Walton already have tickets into the Tout Daily Finals, on August 26th. Check back next Friday to ToutWars.com for the Tout’s picks for that night, and Saturday morning for the Period 4 final results.
Tout Wars All Star Break FAAB Commentaries.
From the crew at Mastersball, notes on five Tout Wars leagues.
Mike Gianella’s FAAB Notes at Baseball Prospectus are up. They’re presently behind the paywall, but they’re usually available for everyone. I’ll let him know and we can hope they’ll be available later.