Category: NL

Tout Owners Write (and sometimes talk) About Their Teams

AL: Matthew Berry and Nate Ravitz talk about Berry’s Team, Lawr Michaels recap, Jeff Erickson’s recap, Chris Liss’s recap, Mike Siano’s recap, Andy Behrens’ recap, Jason Collette’s recap, Jason Collette compares his LABR and Tout Wars teams, Rob Leibowitz’s recap, Ron Shandler’s fanalytic recap,  Lawr Michaels on strategy,

MIXED: Corey Schwartz recap, Fred Zinkie recap, Derek Van Riper’s recap, Zach Steinhorn’s recap, Lawr Michaels offers mixed league players some advice, Nando Di Fino’s notes, Eric Mack’s recap, David Gonos’s recap, Nick Minnix recap, Tim Heaney recap (strategy), Tim Heaney draft reactions, Paul Singman’s recap, New York doesn’t stay open late enough for Ray Flowers,  Ray Flowers recap,

NL: Derek Carty recap, Peter Kreutzer Recap, Peter Kreutzer Precap, Scott Pianowski recap, Steve Gardner writes a NL survey with some AL bits, and reviews his own NL team, Mike Gianella’s recap, Nate Ravitz and Matthew Berry talk about Nate’s team, Todd Zola’s recap,

The Tout Wars Market

Derek Carty writes for Baseball Prospectus and has been a Tout Warrior since 2010. He is part of a startup called FantasySquared, which is a new game that creates small stock markets that allow fantasy team owners to trade shares in their fellow owners’ teams, perhaps backing the winning team in their league as their own team fades.

The website has just launched, and one of the first leagues available for public trading is Tout Wars. You can sign up at the site and start building your portfolio right away. Rotoman bought a couple hundred shares of his team to win, because he’s confident, and 100 shares of Lenny’s team, because he bid up Rotoman’s prime stud hitter target, Hunter Pence, until he was out of reach.

Derek shared the implied odds thus far for all three Tout Wars leagues. Is there really wisdom in crowds? We’ll find out better once a critical mass has joined the site. But here’s the results of a small sampling: Continue reading “The Tout Wars Market”

The Roster Changes…

With one week until the draft, Joe Sheehan withdrew from this year’s Tout Wars AL, setting in motion a series of changes.

1) Chris Liss moves from the NL to the AL.

2) Derek Carty moves from the Mixed to the NL.

3) Zach Steinhorn, of mlb.com and mastersball.com, joins the Mixed league.

For a complete list of who is playing where, visit the Players page.

2012 Rules Changes in Tout: Swingman Baby!

We’ve always looked at Tout Wars as an incubator for new ideas about how to play fantasy baseball. The game is a living thing, and we take seriously a responsibility to try out new rules that we think have an opportunity to be of use in other leagues.

After a far ranging rules talk among league participants by email and on this website last fall, we decided this year to clarify some previously enacted rules and introduce one significant new wrinkle: The Swingman. Continue reading “2012 Rules Changes in Tout: Swingman Baby!”