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THIS is Tout Weekend!

A scene from the Tout NL 2015 auction.
A scene from the Tout NL 2015 auction.

Where will the best and brightest fantasy baseball writers and broadcasters be this weekend?

Many will be in New York City, for the annual Tout Wars weekend of drafts and parties.

This year’s drafts are being held in the studio at SiriusXM and aren’t open for the public, but you can follow along live on the SiriusXM fantasy sports channel, and on the live blog and spreadsheet at toutwars.com.

When are the drafts? Where and when are the parties?

The SCHEDULE:

Tout H2H: March 18, 7pm. Doors open at 6pm. Ron Shandler is auctioneer. Joe Pisapia has the spreadsheet. Mike Gianella is on chat.

Tout AL: March 19, 9am. Doors open at 8am. Brian Feldman is auctioneer. Paul Sporer is on spreadsheet. Al Melchior is doing chat.

Tout Mix Auction: March 19, 3pm. Doors open at 2pm. Jeff Erickson is auctioneer. Ray Murphy has the spreadsheet. Jason Collette is on chat.

Foley’s NY Party: March 19, 8pm. 18 West 33rd Street. Party with the pros!

Tout NL Auction: March 20, 10am. Doors open at 9am. Brian Feldman is the auctioneer. Steve Moyer is on spreadsheet. Jason Collette will chat.

The live blog for each auction will be available at toutwars.com, where there will also be a link to the live spreadsheet. You can access the live spreadsheet now at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12AvDtjmYjr-mlFHXIUkFRDK3EBs_Zy-iJzPZNqRONfQ/edit?usp=sharing. Until the weekend comes, nothing is happening.

Here’s the Menu of Champions at Foleys on Saturday night:

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Tout Wars Mixed Draft: We have winners!

The stat service Tout Wars uses has a Toy Box, a place league member can go to mess around with different data. Like, whose team was the best over the past two weeks? Five weeks? Two and a half months.

It also allows you to create projected standings based on Clay Davenport’s and BaseballHQ’s projections and current rosters.

Tout Mixed Draft drafted last night, and here are the projected standings (click to enlarge):

Clay Davenport’s projections, good for Wilton, bad for Murphy:

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While BaseballHQ’s projections have a different look, especially for Murphy:

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Tout Wars Mixed Draft Live 2016 Live Blog! March 8 at 8pm!

You can follow along watching the Draft Room at onRoto.com.

Tout Wars Mixed Draft Order Is Now Set!

With Tout Wars Mixed Draft a week away, team owners were asked which draft positions they favored and order was set based on their preferences. Precedence was given to teams in order of last year’s finish. The draft will be held at 8pm on March 8, 2015.

There will be a live spreadsheet with draft results available here at toutwars.com, and Glenn Colton and Rick Wolf will broadcast the event live on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports channel.

2016 Tout Wars MIXED DRAFT

Tout Wars mandates that each year’s draft order is determined by last year’s finish. Since draft picks are not necessarily valued in the order they come, owners are polled for their preferences of pick. The draft order is now set (corrected to show Van Hook preference for No. 8 over No. 4):

1. Rudy Gamble (1000)
2. Patrick Mayo (1000) Transfer from Tout X
3. Adam Ronis (1000) 2015 Mixed Draft Champion
4. Tim McLeod (1000) 2014 Mixed Draft Champion
5. Eno Sarris (1000)
6. Craig Mish (1000) Transfer from Tout X
7. Greg Ambrosius (1000)
8. Perry Van Hook (1000)
9. Tom Kessenich (910)
10. Tim McCullough (1000) Transfer from Tout X
11. Anthony Perri (740)
12. Rick Wilton (490)
13. Stacie Stern (1000) New to Tout Wars
14. Charlie Wiegert (790)
15. Ray Murphy (990)

The New League: Tout Wars Head To Head Lineup is Announced

Head To Head is the latest fantasy baseball format to get the Tout Wars treatment. The innaugural auction will take place on March 18th, kicking off Tout Wars Weekend in New York City.

The 12-team league welcomes newcomers Jeff Zimmerman, Howard Bender and Jeff Mans playing 5×5 style against returning Tout Wars vets, playing 22 weekly H2H contest and three roto periods (first half, second half, overall) in which 11 games in each are at stake. The first place team in the roto period goes 11-0, the second goes 10-1, 10th place goes 2-9, etc.

Head to Head League scoring and rules are being finalized and will be announced later this week.

The order below represents reserve-round draft order. The numbers in parentheses are the FAAB budgets for each team.

2016 Tout Wars HEAD TO HEAD

Doug Anderson (1000)
Jake Ciely (1000)
Andrea LaMont (1000)
Michael Beller (1000)
Jeff Boggis (1000)
Stephania Bell (1000)
Paul Sporer (1000)
Brent Hershey (1000)
Peter Kreutzer (780) Transfer from Tout NL
Jeff Mans (1000) New to Tout Wars
Howard Bender (1000)  New to Tout Wars
Jeff Zimmerman (1000) New to Tout Wars

Announcing the 2016 Tout Wars Mixed Draft Lineup

Adam Ronis returns to defend his 2015 crown, with Rudy Gamble champing at the bit for a rematch. They are joined by Tout Wars newcomer Stacie Stern, who is general manager of Head to Head sports and a regular on SiriusXM radio (SiriusXM will carry the Draft live on Rick Wolf and Glenn Colton’s March 8 show at 8pm), and three Touts from last year’s inaugural Tout X league, Patrick Mayo, Craig Mish, and Tim McCullough.

2016 Tout Wars MIXED DRAFT

Tout Wars mandates that each year’s draft order is determined by last year’s finish. Since draft picks are not necessarily valued in the order they come, owners are polled for their preferences of pick. The draft order is not yet set, players are listed in the selection order of picks:

Adam Ronis (1000) 2015 Mixed Draft Champion
Rudy Gamble (1000)
Patrick Mayo (1000) Transfer from Tout X
Perry Van Hook (1000)
Tim McLeod (1000) 2014 Mixed Draft Champion
Craig Mish (1000) Transfer from Tout X
Greg Ambrosius (1000)
Eno Sarris (1000)
Ray Murphy (990)
Tom Kessenich (910)
Charlie Wiegert (790)
Tim McCullough (1000) Transfer from Tout X
Anthony Perri (740)
Rick Wilton (490)
Stacie Stern (1000) New to Tout Wars

Tout Wars Mixed Auction Lineup is Announced.

For the third time in five years, Fred Zinkie heads into a Tout Wars Mixed Auction throwing out the first nomination. He hasn’t shown quite the same dominance in the even-numbered years as he has in the odd. Could that open up some opportunity?

Newcomers to Tout Mixed Auction, Bret Sayre (won Tout X last year), and Gene McCaffrey, from the NL league, hope to make a difference.

Players are listed in the order they will choose in the reserve draft after the auction. The numbers in parentheses are the amount of FAAB each team starts the season with.

2016 Tout Wars MIXED AUCTION

Fred Zinkie (1000) 2011, 2013, 2015 Mixed Auction Champion
Bret Sayre (1000) 2015 Tout X Champion
Scott Swanay (1000)
Tim Heaney (1000) won coin flip
Zach Steinhorn (1000)
Cory Schwartz (1000) 2012 Mixed Auction Champion
Scott Pianowski (1000)
Ray Flowers (1000)
Scott Engel (1000)
Gene McCaffrey (960) 2001 NL Champion, Transfer from NL
Al Melchior (910)
David Gonos (890) 2008 Mixed Auction Champion
Joe Pisapia (890)
Derek VanRiper (840) 2014 Mixed Auction Champion
Nando DiFino (720)

2016 Tout Wars NL Lineup Announced

Mike Gianella, the 2015 Tout NL champ, will toss out the first nomination in the March 20th Tout NL auction in New York City (and live on SiriusXM radio). There are two newcomers to the league this year, as Grey Albright moves over from the Mixed Draft league and Andy Behrens arrives from Tout AL.

The numbers in parentheses are the number of FAAB units each team starts with. Teams are penalized 10 units for each point they score fewer than 60 points in the previous year’s standings.

2016 Tout Wars NL Only

Mike Gianella (1000) 2015 NL Champion
Tristan Cockcroft (1000) 2012, 2013, 2014 Champion
Grey Albright (1000) Transfer from Mixed Draft
Derek Carty (1000)
Ray Guilfoyle (1000)
Phil Hertz (1000)
Lenny Melnick (1000) 2002 NL Champion (with partner Irving Swilling)
Scott Wilderman (1000) 2003, 2006 NL Champion
Andy Behrens (1000) 2010 Mixed Auction Champion, Transfer from AL
Brian Walton (920) 2009 NL Champion
Steve Gardner (890) 2011 NL Champion
Todd Zola (860)