There are live links now to each of the league’s standings, transactions and stats in the right nav.
If you want to see what this week’s FAAB results are you can check the View Bidmeister Results item in the Transaction Logs menu at 12:01 am Monday morning.
The Tout Wars auctions are in the books. The lobby of SiriusXM once again looks like a sophisticated and refined business space, rather than a Phi Epsilon Tout frat basement. (But what happened to the Keith Richards and Paul McCartney autographs on the wall?) All the partygoers made it home from Foleys safely, though there were close calls. And some people are writing about their teams.
The spreadsheet with all results is here.
NL: Gardner Kreutzer Gianella Zola Hertz || RotoAdvice
AL: Jason Collette Podhorzer Erickson Leibowitz Michaels Behrens Erickson and Liss Shandler || RotoAdvice
MIXED AUCTION: Swanay Gonos 1 Guilfoyle Flowers Singman Heaney Zinkie Steinhorn Davitt Gonos 2|| Michaels
MIXED DRAFT: Van Hook Minnix Sporer Ronis Murphy
The Baseball Prospectus Flags Fly Forever podcast Episode 12 has extended Tout Wars discussion about NL, AL and Mixed Auction, featuring Bret Sayre, Mike Gianella and Mauricio Rubio.
You can hear of more by following #toutwars on Twitter.
Competing in Tout Wars NL Auction in 2014
In order of reserve round pick (available FAAB in parenthesis)
* new to league this year
Tristan Cockcroft (100)
Mike Gianella (100)
Todd Zola (100)
Gene McCaffrey (100)*
Steve Gardner (100)
Seth Trachtman (100)*
Brian Walton (100)
Phil Hertz (100)
Peter Kreutzer (100)
Lenny Melnick (97)
Scott Wilderman (93)
Derek Carty (89)
Tout Wars NL Auction will be held on March 22 at 9am in NY, and broadcast on SiriusXM.
Competing in Tout Wars AL Auction in 2014
In order of reserve round pick (available FAAB in parenthesis)
* new to league this year
Larry Schechter (100)
Mike Podhorzer (100)*
Joe Sheehan (100)
Jeff Erickson (100)
Rick Wolf/Glenn Colton (100)
Lawr Michaels (100)
Andy Behrens (97)
Jason Collette (95)
Rob Leibowitz (91)
Steve Moyer (90)
Ron Shandler (90)
Chris Liss (89)*
Tout Wars AL Auction will take place March 23rd in NYC at 10am ET.
Competing in Tout Wars Mixed Auction in 2014
In order of reserve round pick (available FAAB in parenthesis)
* new to league this year
Fred Zinkie (100)
David Gonos (100)
Scott Swanay (100)
Eric Mack (100)
Tim Heaney (100)
Patrick Davitt (100)
Scott Pianowski (100)*
Ray Guilfoyle (100)*
Nando DiFino (100)
Al Melchior (99)
Zach Steinhorn (94)
Paul Singman (93)
Derek Van Riper (89)
Cory Schwartz (83)
Ray Flowers (76)
Tout Wars Mixed Auction will be held March 22 at 3pm ET in New York City, broadcast live on SiriusXM.
While we’re putting the final touches on the 2014 Tout Wars league rosters, we wanted to make one significant announcement regarding the league rules. This year all four Tout Wars leagues will use On Base Percentage (instead of Batting Average) in their 5×5 scoring.
Last year’s experiment with OBP in the Tout Wars Mixed Draft and Tout Wars Mixed Auction leagues was a success. The patients survived, for one, and more importantly the owners in those two leagues adjusted without any obvious difficulty.
Expansion into the only leagues involves one further bit of business. The change means that Tout Wars will no longer be quite as good a draft price guideline as it was for leagues that use batting average. It was this issue that caused us to wait a year, and it was this issue that was forefront in our discussions this year about making the change. An online poll we ran in December, however, helped guide us to a decision.
Half the respondents who hadn’t played OBP thought we should make the change. And the vast majority of those who have played with OBP thought we should make the change.
We know the transition will be uncomfortable for some, but we feel strongly that having bases on balls count for hitters (as they count against pitchers in WHIP) is a very positive step in the evolution of fantasy baseball. We hope that our making the change now will make it easier for leagues that want to modernize their categories to make the jump sooner rather than later.
Tout poohbahs Ron, Lawr, Jeff and Peter all play in the XFL, a mixed keeper league that adopted OBP in 2003. We all feel that the tires have been kicked, any wrinkles have been pressed, and OBP is the stronger way to play. Â And just as we did when we adopted 5×5 rather than the still (back then) prevalent 4×4, we hope you’ll come along if it makes sense for your league. As support service providers we’ll be including OBP in our materials this year, and we think you’ll start to see 5×5 (OBP) pricing become more common immediately and going forward.
Have a happy new year, and please welcome OBP!
Tout Wars
Each of the winners will receive: A package of Ron Shandler’s 2014 Baseball Forecaster, the 2014 Mastersball Platinum Package , Rotoman’s 2014 Fantasy Baseball Guide, the 2014 Rotowire Baseball Guide and the 2014 Patton $ Software and Data.
UPDATED: Oct. 5, 2013 at 6pm, with additional teams in the spreadsheet, and the NL champ’s name spelled correctly. UPDATED January 17, 2014 Spelled AL Civilian Champ’s first name correctly.
DOUBT WARS AL: Glenn Colton/Rick Wolf.
Civilian Champ: Andrew Pappas.
Runners Up: Eugene Freedman, Noah Hirsch
DOUBT WARS MIXED: Tim George
Pro Champ: Paul Singman
Runners Up: Jon Hrobuchek, Brent Crossman
DOUBT WARS NL: Jeffrey Pelletier
Pro Champ: Tristan Cockcroft, Todd Zola
Runners Up: Scott Katz, Justin Dowling
Tristan Cockcroft finished second to Todd Zola in the Draft Day Standings for Tout Wars, but his strong ERA and WHIP elevated him past Todd in Doubt Wars. Tristan, however, finished 200 innings short of the Tout Wars minimum. We didn’t anticipate that in Doubt Wars, but it seems less an issue for a Pro team than a Civilian team. Tristan certainly wasn’t gaming Doubt Wars.
Here are the standings for each league (click to enlarge):
DOUBT WARS AL
DOUBT WARS MIXED
DOUBT WARS NL
If you would like to download the spreadsheet compiling the final standings, please click here.
Going into the last game of the season David Gonos needed two of three things to happen to pass Fred Zinkie:
David Price gets the win.
His hitters (Pierzynski, Martin and Loney) to hit two homers
His hitters (Pierzynski, Martin and Loney) to score two runs
Zinkie’s only defense was Ian Kinsler. If he scored a run, Gonos’ hitters would need to score three.
But it didn’t happen. David Price was masterful, got the win, shutting down Texas hitters, and Loney didn’t power the Tampa offense. Fred Zinkie held on for his second championship in three year!
In other news, David Gonos did set a new league record for strikeouts, breaking Tim Heaney’s 2011 record.
While Fred Zinkie of all people set new league records for ERA and WHIP, eclipsing David Gonos’ (2010) and Nick Minnix’ (2011) records.
Congratulations!
