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Tout Wars 2015: Mixed Auction Lineup is Announced!

toutwarslogo-newsmallThe 2015 Mixed Auction will take place on March 21 at 3pm in New York City. The location will be announced later this month. The draft will be carried live by SiriusXM radio.

There is one new rule for the Tout Wars Mixed Leagues. The reserve list will expand from four to six players this year.

This year’s owners, in order of reserve round pick. The number in parenthesis is the amount of FAAB each team starts with. Reserve order and FAAB budget is based on Tout Wars rules.

Derek VanRiper (100) 2014 Champion
Fred Zinkie (100)
Zach Steinhorn (100)
Tim Heaney (100) won coin flip
Al Melchior (100) lost coin flip
Scott Pianowski (100)
Eric Mack (100)
Scott Engel (100) transfer from Mixed Draft
Scott Swanay (95)
Nando DiFino (93)
Paul Singman (88)
Patrick Davitt (85)
Cory Schwartz (84)
Ray Flowers (69)
David Gonos (68)

Solds: Steinhorn and Schwartz on a new category proposal

Every fall we solicit rules change suggestions from the team owners in Tout Wars. Despite our recent move replacing BA with OBP, which some love and some hate, we’re generally more interested in tinkering with the procedures, making them more fair, easier, and hopefully innovative. A major rules change, like replacing Saves with Saves + Holds (or some permutation of such) will be considered seriously, but the default position, as with replay, is with the status quo. There has to be a good reason to make the change.

I bring this up because this year there has been a strong sentiment among some owners to switch from Saves to Saves + Holds (Solds, Ray Flowers called it), which led Zach Steinhorn to write a 411 post about some work Cory Schwartz put together yesterday. Cory gets at just what seems so dicey about Holds as a category, and makes a pretty good case for sticking with the closers.

Rotowire’s Derek VanRiper Explains How He Won Tout Mixed Auction.

Over at Rotowire’s blog.

Good health and good pitching pickups on the waiver wire were a part of it, but to get the full measure check out the full post. His showing of draft prices and season earnings for each roster spot is instructive.

The Tout Wars Leaderboard is Updated!

NOTE: The link has been fixed.

The Top 5 All Time Tout Wars Earners (based on $100 entries divided among top teams each season):

Larry Schechter $2,920
Fred Zinkie $1,632
Mike Lombardo $1,579
Jason Grey $1,380
Tristan Cockcroft $1,253

Top 5 Earners since 2010:

Fred Zinkie $1,632
Tristan Cockcroft $1,553
Larry Schechter $1,420
Steve Gardner $736
Jason Grey $600

See all the results at The Tout Wars Leader Board.

Tout Wars Records Fall

In Tout Mixed Draft, which is in only its second year, Perry Van Hook set a new record for RBI (987), impressive in a down year. Perry also set a new record for Stolen Bases, with 211. Scott Engel set new records for Strikeouts (1448) and WHIP (1.131), while champ Tim McLeod set a record for the lowest ERA (3.166).

In Tout Mixed Auction, champ Derek Van Riper set a new record for OBP, with 3.523, and Strikeouts, with 1439. Ray Guilfoyle set records for ERA (2.696) and WHIP (1.106), and Ray Flowers rounded out the rewriting of the pitching record books with a record for Saves, with 135.

in Tout NL, Steve Gardner established the first record for On Base Percentage, with a .3386 record. Phil Hertz set a new record low for WHIP, with 1.131.

In Tout AL, Glenn Colton and Rick Wolf’s team set a new record for high points on the season, with 106, as well as the first On Base Percentage record (.3334), and new marks for ERA (2.96) and WHIP (1.161).