Mastersball.com‘s comments and charts are in, now that the May 4 FAAB is completed. Read it here!
Mike Gianella covers Tout Wars and LABR FAAB claims for the week. Read it here!
Category: News
Tout X Standings for April, Strategy for May!
Bret Sayre stayed ahead of the hard-charging Andrea LaMont to hold onto the lead after the first four-week Tout X event.
Month two begins today, with teams creating new salary cap teams from the Shandler Park price list.
Sayre writes about how he put his May team together over at Baseball Prospectus.
Here’s how they finished after the season’s first four weeks:
How Sayre Did It:
Scott Pianowski Wins Tout Daily by FanDuel Phase 1!
Scott Pianowski finished first for the second time in four weeks in Tout Wars Daily by FanDuel, to finish first in the inaugural Phase of the contest, and wins a ticket to the Championship Day, on which the 15 Phase winners will compete for $2000 in prize money.
Pianowski rode St. Louis starter Lance Lynn, and got solid performances from Joey Votto, Dee Gordon, and Joc Pederson for the win. He was trailed in Week 4 by Jeff Erickson and Al Melchior. You can see all the entries and results right here.
The other two Championship Ticket winners in Phase 1 are Week 3 champ Adam Ronis and three-time Top 10 finisher Jeff Erickson. They closely edged out Lenny Melnick, who along with all the other touts will begin with a clean slate for Week 1 of Phase 2, starts next Friday, May 8th. See the Tout Daily Leaderboard here.
Here’s Pianowski’s Week 4 winner:
Tout Wars FAAB Reports for April 27!
The Mastersball crew charts and comments on this week’s big moves. Rob Leibowitz goes AL, Brian Walton NL, Zach Steinhorn on Mixed Auction, and Perry Van Hook on Mixed Draft. The big buys were Jimmy Paredes, Addison Russell and John Axford.
Mike Gianella does deep analysis of Tout Wars moves (and LABR, too) over at Baseball Prospectus, including an intriguing digression on Mjölnir, Thor’s hammer in both Norse mythology and Marvel comics.
Adam Ronis is This Week’s Tout Daily Leader!
Ronis also won the Week 3 of Phase 1 contest, edging Tristan Cockcroft, who bounced back after two very soft weeks. You can see all the results right here.
Ronis feasted on Gerrit Cole’s fine game versus Arizona and Anthony Rizzo’s monster game in Cincinnati, and generally good performances across the board.
Cockcroft also rode Rizzo’s mashing, as well as Michael Pineda’s excellent tilt versus the Mets.
After three weeks of Phase 1, no team has finished in the money (Top 10) more than two times.
16 teams have yet to finish in the Top 10 once.
The Top 3 finishers in the four-week Phase 1 will get tickets to the Tout Daily championships on August 28th. Ronis, week 1 winner Scott Pianowski, and Jake Ciely are currently in the top three positions. See the complete leaderboard here.
Here’s Ronis’s winning squad:
LINK: A Madman’s Notes
Zach Steinhorn details some of the ironies of the early Tout Mixed Auction season.
X Marks the Opening
How are things going in the first week in Tout X? Lawr Michaels checks in.
Getting Ready for Tout Daily
The first Tout Wars Daily game, hosted by FanDuel, begins this Friday.
So far 32 34 36 Tout Wars members have signed up.
Each (plus any others who sign up tonight) will receive an invitation tomorrow to the Friday game, then pick nine-member teams against a salary cap for Friday play.
We’ll have all the weekly results here, plus analysis of that week’s winner, and the Year to Date Leaderboard, each week all season long at ToutWars.com.
The Touts are playing for $6,000 in prizes this year, plus the chance to be crowned Tout Wars Daily Champion 2015.
Please stay tuned!