First up, Mastersball does without Perry Van Hook this week, but manages to highlight some interesting moments in this week’s FAAB bidding. How much did you bid for Eduardo Rodriguez in your leagues?
Mike Gianella gets to ponder that question in his FAAB report at Baseball Prospectus, and he gets to fiddle over the NL free agent pool, which has been left for dead in recent weeks.
Patrick Mayo won Round 2 of the Tout X contest at Shandler Park, and climbed to within nine points of overall contest leader Bret Sayre, who finished tied with Jeff Boggis for second with 50.5 points.
Mayo also trails Boggis, who has shown consistency with 50.5 points in each of the contests two periods so far, by 1 1/2 points.
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You can access the contest leaderboard here. Learn more about Tout X here.
Round 3 starts tonight. Take a look at who each team picked and at what cost right here, when it’s posted.
Brian Walton jumped out to an early lead in last night’s Tout Daily by FanDuel contest behind Cole Hamels’ pitching. Hamels was brilliant, as our Touts expected, except for two solo homers allowed to Troy Tulowitzki. Walton had Tulo, too.
Kolten Wong had a nice night, later, and Walton had him, too. Walton’s biggest problem was that Hamels was facing Chad Bettis, who had a perfect game through six and a no-hitter into the eighth. There was no W for Hamels, but Walton held on to win the night’s contest, finishing just ahead of Al Melchior and Lenny Melnick.
Despite finishing in the Top 10 in three of Phase 2’s four weeks, Walton finished sixth overall for the Phase.
Another team that finished Top 10 in three of the weeks was Lenny Melnick’s. Lenny ended up winning the Phase, with 182.24 points, easily ahead of Lawr Michaels (173.5) and Tom Kessenich (151.91), the other contestants who won tickets to the August 28 Tout Daily championship night.
Kessenich edged Seth Trachtman, who overcame a dismal P2:W1 to scratch to within three-quarters of a point for the third ticket.
For the Phase 2 Week 4 results, click here. For the complete Leaderboard, click here. For more about Tout Daily by FanDuel, click here.
Brian Walton’s winning team.
$2 gets you in the door at FanDuel in a game of 160, that pays $4 for each entry in the top 72. It’s a great way to try out daily fantasy baseball, with a decent chance to win a little.
Follow the link to sign up! http://fanduel.com/tout-challenge And play against Adam Ronis, Al Melchior, Gene McCaffrey, Jake Ciely, Todd Zola, Lawr Michaels and others in tonight’s challenge!
Todd Zola and the crew at Mastersball list the bids and write about them every week, and this week, too.
Jeff Erickson surveys the leagues he plays in FAAB results, which included Tout NL.
Mike Gianella’s BP FAAB round up is now posted at http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=26451.
When the dust cleared it was Lenny Melnick atop the heap in the Tout Daily by Fanduel, Phase 2 Week 3 contest, well ahead of Lawr Michaels. Michaels, however, remains the leader in Phase 2, with one week remaining. The top 3 teams in each Phase earn a ticket to the August 28 Championship week, in which $2,000 of prizes will go to the top 5 finishers.
Melnick, of course, had the week’s top pitcher, Gerrit Cole, as well as Kendrys Morales’s (owned by 2.4 percent of teams) surprisingly huge week (15.75 points). He also had Evan Longoria and AJ Pollock, which was enough to give him a nine point win.
Michaels also had Longoria, as well as the week’s second most favorited pitcher, Max Scherzer, and solid contributions from Logan Morrison and Steve Souza, plus across the board goodness. Only Brad Miller failed to contribute to his team.
Here’s the contest leaderboard, sorted by the Phase 2 leaders.
Here’s the winning squad:
Three teams beat all 23 touts in last night’s #toutchallenge at FanDuel.
demps2001 had big nights from James Shields, Nick Hundley, David Ortiz, Maikel Franco, Troy Tulowitzki, and Kole Calhoun, to finish first overall.
strombone1 featured Shields, Mark Reynolds, Ian Desmond, Bryce Harper, and Nelson Cruz.
frankiep2323 rode on the backs of Trevor Bauer, Nick Hundley, Willin Rosario, Maikel Franco, and Bryce Harper.
Doug Anderson, otherwise known as rotodaddy, rostered Shields, Franco, Desmond, Giancarlo Stanton, and Calhoun.
Phil Hertz was the other tout to finish in the Top 10, finishing seventh overall.
The rest of the touts who finished in the Top 50:
Adam Ronis
Scott Swanay
Lawr Michaels
Seth Trachtman
Gene McCaffrey
Peter Kreutzer
Join us on May 26th for another #toutchallenge!
Mastersball.com’s experts take on the four Tout Wars roto leagues with commentary and charts. I wish Brian Walton had pointed out that Kreutzer’s all-in bid would have been $28, just half of his winning $56 bid.
Mike Gianella goes all Fonzie over at Baseball Prospectus, covering the week’s transactions. Eh!
Plus, you get bonus LABR coverage in both pieces.
