Category: Tout Mixed

Fred Zinkie’s Mixed League FAAB report: Trade Deadline Version

The interleague nonwaiver trade deadline doesn’t mean as much to Mixed Leaguers as it does in AL and NL leagues, but that’s because many of the changes are more subtle. Read Fred Zinkie’s account of this week’s FAABonanza in Tout Wars mixed here.

Jason Collette’s Tout MIXED midseason review

If you were a subscriber to baseballprospectus.com you could have read Jason Collette’s midseason Tout Wars roundups two weeks ago. Jason and BP, however, are making them available to us all now, for which we are thankful. Jason Collette’s column appears at every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at baseballprospectus.com.

Playing in Tout Wars is a rewarding experience because of the exposure the league gets. It, like the LABR (League of Alternative Baseball Reality), are the two best gauges fantasy players have to see how the “experts” apply their knowledge at the draft table. It is one thing to read the work each of them publishes online, but it is another to see what they do with their imaginary money, or in the case of playing in high-stakes leagues such as the ones in the NFBC leagues, real money.

Last week, we looked at the AL-Only league and how Larry Schechter and Jeff Erickson have turned their profits into the top spots in the standings and how others have suffered some serious losses from the prices they paid at the draft table either due to bad valuations or bad luck related to injuries. Monday, we saw how Brian Walton has been able to build a commanding 23 point lead in the NL-Only league on the strength of his two bargain closers in Ryan Madson and Craig Kimbrel. This week, we look at the 15 team mixed league to see how it is shaking out at the break.

Here are the current standings for the 15 team Mixed League:

  1. Fred Zinkie – 114 points
  2. Tim Heaney – 109 points
  3. Gene McCaffrey – 102.5 points
  4. Nick Minnix – 102 points Continue reading “Jason Collette’s Tout MIXED midseason review”