Category: Mixed Auction

Tout Wars 2015: Mixed Auction Lineup is Announced!

toutwarslogo-newsmallThe 2015 Mixed Auction will take place on March 21 at 3pm in New York City. The location will be announced later this month. The draft will be carried live by SiriusXM radio.

There is one new rule for the Tout Wars Mixed Leagues. The reserve list will expand from four to six players this year.

This year’s owners, in order of reserve round pick. The number in parenthesis is the amount of FAAB each team starts with. Reserve order and FAAB budget is based on Tout Wars rules.

Derek VanRiper (100) 2014 Champion
Fred Zinkie (100)
Zach Steinhorn (100)
Tim Heaney (100) won coin flip
Al Melchior (100) lost coin flip
Scott Pianowski (100)
Eric Mack (100)
Scott Engel (100) transfer from Mixed Draft
Scott Swanay (95)
Nando DiFino (93)
Paul Singman (88)
Patrick Davitt (85)
Cory Schwartz (84)
Ray Flowers (69)
David Gonos (68)

Rotowire’s Derek VanRiper Explains How He Won Tout Mixed Auction.

Over at Rotowire’s blog.

Good health and good pitching pickups on the waiver wire were a part of it, but to get the full measure check out the full post. His showing of draft prices and season earnings for each roster spot is instructive.

Doubt Wars Mixed: Triplets Win! Triplets Win!

Not only do Bob Russo’s Triplets win the 64-team 2014 Mixed League Doubt Wars contest, they did so scoring 26 points. That’s an average finish in all categories of better than third!

The second-place Watch the Junk!, by contrast, had an average finish of 17th per category. Top Tout Warrior Zach Steinhorn had an average finish of 21st, third best overall.

The Triplets finished first in Runs, RBI, On Base Percentage, Homers, Wins, Strikeouts, ERA and WHIP!

Here are the standings (actual Tout Wars teams are shown in gray):

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And how did Bob’s Triplets approach perfection? Almost every player was a hit (click to enlarge):

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I wonder how Bob did in his regular leagues?

Tout Wars Mixed Auction: Crowns Derek Van Riper Champ

Derek Van Riper and Fred Zinkie and a handful of others battled through August and the first two weeks of September, but then Van Riper took a big step forward and won the Tout Wars Mixed Auction Crown.

Three time champ Fred Zinkie finished a distant second.

More to come.

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.

The Tout Wars Mixed Auction Reaping.

Screenshot 2014-09-20 13.39.16On September 1, there was a tangle of tributes scrapping for Mixed Auction supremacy.

But since then Derek Van Riper has been on a run. In the September standings he has scored 121 points, with Zach Steinhorn (104), Fred Zinkie (101.5), Ray Guilfoyle (95.5) and Al Melchior (95.5) trailing.

The contending teams have done well, but none so well as Derek. Today, before the start of the season’s final nine days, he leads Fred Zinkie by seven points.

Screenshot 2014-09-20 13.49.44Can Van Riper be caught?

Let’s take a closer look at the categories, and see who could gain, and if Derek can lose. The numbers are (points to be gained/points to be lost).

RUNS
Van Riper (0/0)
Zinkie (+2/-.5)
Steinhorn (+1/-2)
Melchior (0/-3)
Guilfoyle (+.5/-1.5)

HOME RUNS
Van Riper (0/0)
Zinkie (0/0)
Steinhorn (+1/0)
Melchior (0/0)
Guilfoyle (0/0)

RBI
Van Riper (0/-1) Eight ahead of Melchior.
Zinkie (0/0)
Steinhorn (0/0)
Melchior (+1/0) Eight behind Van Riper, who has five more RBI in September.
Guilfoyle (0/-1)

STOLEN BASES
Van Riper (+.5/-.5)
Zinkie (+.5/-.5)
Steinhorn (0/0)
Melchior (0/0)
Guilfoyle (0/0)

OBP
Van Riper (0/0)
Zinkie (+2/-1)
Steinhorn (+2/-2)
Melchior (+1/0)
Guilfoyle (+1/=1)

OVERALL HITTING
Van Riper (+.5/-1.5)
Zinkie (+4.5/-2)
Steinhorn (+4/-4)
Melchior (+2/-3)
Guilfoyle (+1.5/-3.5)

WINS
Van Riper (+1.5/-1)
Zinkie (0/-.5)
Steinhorn (0/-2.5)
Melchior (+1/0)
Guilfoyle (+1.5/-1.5)

SAVES
Van Riper (0/0)
Zinkie (0/0)
Steinhorn (0/0)
Melchior (0/0)
Guilfoyle (+1/0)

ERA
Van Riper (0/0)
Zinkie (+1/0)
Steinhorn (0/0)
Melchior (0/-1)
Guilfoyle (0/0)

WHIP
Van Riper (+3/-2)
Zinkie (0/-1)
Steinhorn (+1/0)
Melchior (+3/-1)
Guilfoyle (0/0)

STRIKEOUTS
Van Riper (0/0) Van Riper is only six K ahead of Davitt, but has 203 Ks this month, opposed to Patrick’s 130.
Zinkie (+2/-2) Zinkie has far fewer K this month than Heaney and Pianowski, but trails them by five and three respectively. There’s room for a miracle.
Steinhorn (+1/0)
Melchior (0/0)
Guilfoyle (0/0)

OVERALL PITCHING
Van Riper (+4.5/-3)
Zinkie (+3/-3.5)
Steinhorn (+2/-2.5)
Melchior (+4/-2)
Guilfoyle (+2.5/-1.5)

OVERALL OVERALL
Van Riper (+5/-4.5)
Zinkie (+7.5/-5.5)
Steinhorn (+6/-6.5)
Melchior (+6/-5)
Guilfoyle (+4/-5)

POINT RANGE (Max/Min)
Van Riper (123/113.5)
Zinkie (118.5/104.5)
Steinhorn (112/99.5)
Melchior (109/98)
Guilfoyle (106.5/97)

The bottom line here is that Van Riper can get out of harm’s way, but Zinkie has a chance to catch him. No one else does.

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.