The Touts Talk About Their Drafts!

The (spreadsheet) with auction results is here. Use the tabs for each league.

Steve Gardner wrote a general piece about Tout Weekend. Jake Ceily with lessons learned from the Tout auctions. Howard Bender on strategy, and Sporer and Zinkie at Tout.

Tout Mixed Draft:  Gonos | Gamble | Ronis | White | Murphy (baseballHQ subscribers only)

Tout Head 2 Head: Bender | Ciely | Link | Bell (by Mason) | Kreutzer

Tout AL: Leibowitz | Erickson | Liss | Davitt | Michaels

Tout Mixed Auction: Zimmerman (previews Replacement Level | Player evaluations | Final Standings | League Tendencies) | Flowers | Zinkie and Steinhorn | Shandler | Melchior | VanRiper | Heaney/VanRiper Podcast | Sayre | Pianowski | Swanay

Tout NL: Gianella | Albright | Behrens | Cockcroft | Gardner | Walton

Tout Mixed Draft Winners! Preseason Style.

Our stat provider, onRoto.com, has a feature that allows us to apply two sets of projections to the current rosters, and see the year’s “final” standings before the season even starts.

Gary Davenport’s projections like Greg Ambrosius and Anthony Perri:

While the BaseballHQ projections tip to Anthony Perri and Greg Ambrosius, with a helping of Ray Murphy:

It’s probably a comfort to two-time defending champ Adam Ronis (and everyone other than Ambrosius, Perri and Murphy, that last year’s projected standings had him finishing 10th and ninth respectively. That’s why we let them play.

See you on Opening Day!

How To Follow Tout Wars Mixed Draft Tonight, March 7!

The live spreadsheet is here.

Colton and the Wolfman are covering the draft from 8pm to Midnight tonight on SiriusXM.

Rotoman will be talking about the draft live on the Tout Wars Facebook page.

Tim McLeod will be chatting from inside the draft room on his Facebook page.

Come join us!

Coming Up! Tout Wars Mixed Draft. Tuesday, March 7 at 8pm!

Yes, the gladiators are donning their cheat sheets, warming up their CPUs, making last minute checks on playing time. The Tout Wars Mixed Draft is this Tuesday night at 8pm.

You can follow along with Colton and the Wolfman, on SiriusXM at 8pm.

There will be a live spreadsheet link right here, to follow along, and join us on the Tout Wars Facebook page, for tracking and conversation.

You’ll find a list of this year’s players right here.

We look forward to seeing you!

Come Watch the Touts Auction, At Rock ‘N’ Reilly’s in New York City.

The Dates:

March 24 at 7pm: Tout Wars Head 2 Head

March 25 at 9am: Tout Wars AL
March 25 at 3pm: Tout Wars Mixed Auction

March 26 at 10am: Tout Wars NL

Who’s playing? Click here.

The Place:

Rock ‘N’ Reilly’s Irish Rock Pub in the Renaissance Hotel.
Home of the FNTSY Sports Network.
218 West 35th Street, NYC (on the rooftop on the fifth floor)

See you there!

Instead of candles and glasses, imagine draft sheets and laptops and the hungriest fantasy baseball experts in the world. All weekend long! You’re invited.

Your 2017 Tout Wars Contenders, Revealed!

The 20th Annual Tout Wars Baseball Experts Leagues are getting ready to rumble.

The Mixed Draft League will take place March 7th, at 8pm, and be covered live by Colton and the Wolfman on SiriusXM radio as well as here at ToutWars.com.

Tout Weekend is March 24-26, in New York City. The schedule:

March 24, evening: Tout Head 2 Head Auction.

March 25, morning: Tout AL Auction

March 25: afternoon: Tout Mixed Auction Auction

March 25, night: Party at Foley’s New York, West 33rd Street

March 26, morning: Tout NL Auction.

League changes this year, see…

Nando DiFino moving into Tout AL
Ron Shandler moving into Tout Mixed Auction
Brent Hershey moving into Tout Mixed Auction
Jeff Zimmerman moving into Tout Mixed Auction
David Gonos moving into Tout Mixed Draft

and the arrival of four new Touts in H2H:

Clay Link: Rotowire.com
Dr. Roto: Scout Fantasy, Host, Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio
Kyle Elfrink
Vlad Sedler: Rotowire.com, BaseballHQ, FantasyGuru Elite

You can see the full league rosters here.

Welcome aboard!

Why Jeff Erickson Came in Last in Tout Wars in 2016. By Jeff Erickson

Post mortems are tough. You try to explain your team, your thinking, your approach, and you constantly run the risk of sounding like you’re talking about your fantasy team! Which is a no-no, of course.

Jeff Erickson gives his 2016 Tout Wars team a post mortem. It was an ugly season for Jeff, and he fearless wades into the mess to explain why. SPOILER ALERT: Hitting.

But he does such good, honest job it’s worth the read to learn how to do your own post-mortem. Read it here. It’s on the free side of Rotowire.

Jonathan Pierce Wins Doubt Wars Mixed Too!

doubtwarslogoJonathan Pierce won Doubt Wars NL, and he won Doubt Wars Mix, too, the first time a single player has won two Doubt leagues in the same year.

Doubt Wars players put together dream rosters after the Tout Wars auctions are done, pricing players at $1 more than their Tout Wars price. Draft day rosters are held all season long, and then combined with the Tout Wars draft day roster to form one big roto standings.

The team with the highest average rank in the TW 5×5 categories is the champion.

The highest Tout Wars finisher in Doubt was Scott Pianowski, who finished third overall. He finished sixth in Tout’s full season Mixed Auction league.

See the results here.

Pierce’s team had four 20/20 hitters and a solid rotation led by Noah Syndergaard, Kenta Maeda and Anthony DeSclafani.

 

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For a second time, congratulations Jonathan!