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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Sign Up For Doubt Wars Is Now Closed!
This is the place. The rules are the same as last year. Put together a $260 team paying what the Touts paid, plus $1. Compete against other Doubt Wars players, and at the end of the year we’ll add in the real Touts, too.
Winners win some small but nice prizes, like the Fantasy Baseball Guide, a copy of the Baseball Forecaster from BaseballHQ and a platinum subscription to Mastersball.com. But the real goal is to beat the Touts.
The AL and NL leagues are full, and there are just a few remaining spots available in the Mixed league.
FIll in the form and we’ll start adding names to leagues tonight. When you log in to onRoto.com you should see your entry listed. Draft your team and you’re on your way.
NOTICE: Make sure you’re drafting 23 players, 14 hitters and 9 pitchers, for $260 or less, just as they do it in Tout Wars. Note: The software doesn’t enforce roster limits, and if you have too many players or spend too much money your rosters will be arbitrarily cut on Monday, when we go live. So please get it right!
Your team must be completely entered by Monday morning, April 3rd.
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
How To Follow Tout Wars Mixed Draft Tonight, March 7!
The live spreadsheet is here.
Colton and the Wolfman are covering the draft from 8pm to Midnight tonight on SiriusXM.
Rotoman will be talking about the draft live on the Tout Wars Facebook page.
Tim McLeod will be chatting from inside the draft room on his Facebook page.
Come join us!
Coming Up! Tout Wars Mixed Draft. Tuesday, March 7 at 8pm!
Yes, the gladiators are donning their cheat sheets, warming up their CPUs, making last minute checks on playing time. The Tout Wars Mixed Draft is this Tuesday night at 8pm.
You can follow along with Colton and the Wolfman, on SiriusXM at 8pm.
There will be a live spreadsheet link right here, to follow along, and join us on the Tout Wars Facebook page, for tracking and conversation.
You’ll find a list of this year’s players right here.
We look forward to seeing you!
Come Watch the Touts Auction, At Rock ‘N’ Reilly’s in New York City.
The Dates:
March 24 at 7pm: Tout Wars Head 2 Head
March 25 at 9am: Tout Wars AL
March 25 at 3pm: Tout Wars Mixed Auction
March 26 at 10am: Tout Wars NL
Who’s playing? Click here.
The Place:
Rock ‘N’ Reilly’s Irish Rock Pub in the Renaissance Hotel.
Home of the FNTSY Sports Network.
218 West 35th Street, NYC (on the rooftop on the fifth floor)
See you there!
Your 2017 Tout Wars Contenders, Revealed!
The 20th Annual Tout Wars Baseball Experts Leagues are getting ready to rumble.
The Mixed Draft League will take place March 7th, at 8pm, and be covered live by Colton and the Wolfman on SiriusXM radio as well as here at ToutWars.com.
Tout Weekend is March 24-26, in New York City. The schedule:
March 24, evening: Tout Head 2 Head Auction.
March 25, morning: Tout AL Auction
March 25: afternoon: Tout Mixed Auction Auction
March 25, night: Party at Foley’s New York, West 33rd Street
March 26, morning: Tout NL Auction.
League changes this year, see…
Nando DiFino moving into Tout AL
Ron Shandler moving into Tout Mixed Auction
Brent Hershey moving into Tout Mixed Auction
Jeff Zimmerman moving into Tout Mixed Auction
David Gonos moving into Tout Mixed Draft
and the arrival of four new Touts in H2H:
Clay Link: Rotowire.com
Dr. Roto: Scout Fantasy, Host, Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio
Kyle Elfrink
Vlad Sedler: Rotowire.com, BaseballHQ, FantasyGuru Elite
You can see the full league rosters here.
Welcome aboard!
Jonathan Pierce Wins Doubt Wars Mixed Too!
Jonathan Pierce won Doubt Wars NL, and he won Doubt Wars Mix, too, the first time a single player has won two Doubt leagues in the same year.
Doubt Wars players put together dream rosters after the Tout Wars auctions are done, pricing players at $1 more than their Tout Wars price. Draft day rosters are held all season long, and then combined with the Tout Wars draft day roster to form one big roto standings.
The team with the highest average rank in the TW 5×5 categories is the champion.
The highest Tout Wars finisher in Doubt was Scott Pianowski, who finished third overall. He finished sixth in Tout’s full season Mixed Auction league.
Pierce’s team had four 20/20 hitters and a solid rotation led by Noah Syndergaard, Kenta Maeda and Anthony DeSclafani.
For a second time, congratulations Jonathan!