A Tout ALer looks at a Tout Mixed trade of a starter for a reliever and notes that it’s all about the context.
Category: strategy
Tout NL Leader Brian Walton Looks at Reserve Lists
All the top prospects in the NL are already rostered, he notes in an article at KFFL.com, and many teams have lots of FAAB left. This doesn’t leave much room for maneuvering.
Tout Mixed: Nick Minnix Has a New Problem, for him
In a 15 team mixed league, what should you do when your hot prospects spend time in the minors? He chews it over here.
Tout Wars Mixed Draft Analysis Part 2, by the Sporting Hippeaux
For Gene McCaffrey, Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3.
Tout Wars Mixed Draft Analysis Part 2.
It makes one wonder, Sporting Hippeaux, where’s Part 1? Here it is. Tout Wars Mixed Draft Analysis Part 1.
Hey, Ian Dury, where’s Parts 1 and 2?
LISS: Preparing for an Expert League Auction
Rotowire’s Chris Liss tells how he has prepared for this year’s Tout Wars NL auction in the Bats blog at the NYtimes.com
I’ve just added an extra buck to my Stephen Drew maximum bid.
DRAFT PREP: Know Your League!
By Nick Shlain, special to toutwars.com
Each auction is unique, and none more so (if something can be more unique, at all) than the CBSsports Analysts Auctions. CBSsports’ holds their auctions in mid-February, before the start of spring training, and the onslaught of news about players that come with that. Perhaps because of that the CBS analysts draft has some other qualities of note.
Roto Think Tank’s Mike Gianella (rotothinktank.blogspot.com), a former CBS Analsyts champion (2009 AL, 2010 NL) and third place finisher in 2010 Tout Wars, was kind enough to correspond with me about this year’s auction.
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TOUT NL: Mike Gianella on why he finished in the “money” but didn’t win
What went right, what went wrong, with numbers.
Part 2. More about what went wrong.
Tout Mixed: Steve Gardner Makes a Race of It
Or maybe you could blame Andy Behren’s bad luck with Kevin Youkilis. In any case, there is a race for first.
In this week’s Fantasy Insider column writes about how he’s shaped his Tout Mixed team, and also takes a look at his other teams and the different ways their fortunes have been shaped by his moves and Lady Luck. Most readers will see their teams in one of his scenarios.