See the full draft results here. Click tabs for different leagues.
Scott White writes about his draft here.
Rudy Gamble writes about how his draft went here.
Charlie Wiegert’s recap (part 1) is right here. And like the Godfather, it has a part 2 right here.
Mike Gianella’s story of his draft at Baseball Prospectus out from behind the paywall.
Doubt Wars is the game everyone likes to play in order to compete against the Touts themselves. Read about the rules here.
We’ve been very slow compiling the results to determine who last year’s winners were, but they’ve now been published. See the spreadsheets (3 tabs) here.
This year’s winners?
AL: Tout Michael Rathburn edged out Tout AL Champ Jeff Zimmerman for first place in Doubt Wars. Strike Back’s Michael Lester is the Civilian champ.
NL: Inverted Ws’s Mark Mason won Doubt NL.
Mixed: Vandelay Industries Keith Johnson beat out the Touts from both Tout Mixed Auction and Tout Mixed Draft.
Congratulations to all the winners, and for everyone else, Wait for this year!
Each year we publish links to the Touts writings and ruminations about what happened in the season that just ended. Here they are for 2021:
Draft and Hold: Michael Stein |
NL: Fred Zinkie | Phil Hertz |
Mixed Auction: Zach Steinhorn |
Head to Head: Frank Stampfl |
What were they thinking? Listen to them, read them:
Mixed Draft 12 (Draft board): Entrekin/Fast (podcast) | Flowers | Towers | Behrens | Fast (podcast) | Melchior ($) | Entrekin |
Mixed Draft 15 (Draft board): White | Short | Gamble | Verougstraete | Van Hook | Wiegert |
Draft and Hold (Draft Board): Williams/Anderson (podcast) | Sheets | Hegglund | Hegglund/Gianella (podcast) |
AL (Draft Board): Erickson | Liss | Bloomfield | Podhorzer | Gianella | Gianella/Hegglund (podcast) |
Mixed Auction 15 (Draft Board): Karabell | Swanay | Steinhorn | Sayre |
NL (Draft Board): Kreutzer | Albright | Zinkie | Cockroft/Zola |
Head to Head (Draft Board):
Mixed Draft: Scott White |
NL: Peter Kreutzer | Fred Zinkie |
AL: Mike Gianella |
Mixed Auction: Zach Steinhorn |
Draft and Hold: John Hegglund | Michael Stein | Brad Johnson |
Head 2 Head: Ariel Cohen |
After 55 games or so our fantasy baseball seasons are just getting started. A front-runner or three has emerged, but there is still plenty of time for a slow starter to catch up. Still, big jumps in the standings points tend to come less frequently and the game’s long season exerts its muscular force.
Not this year. With five days left to the regular season, and the possibility of a Monday doubleheader between the Cardinals and Tigers, let’s see who is leading in each of the leagues.
TOUT DAILY: We already have a winner: Mike Gianella.
TOUT WARS DRAFT AND HOLD: Brad Johnson has a 7.5 point lead over Michael Florio, with Michael Stein and Craig Mish just behind him.
TOUT WARS HEAD TO HEAD: Ian Kahn, last year’s champ, is just ahead of Andrea LaMont and Ariel Cohen. But Ian is off to a slow start this week.
TOUT WARS MIXED AUCTION: 2014 champ Derek VanRiper leads 2017 champ Jeff Zimmerman by 10.5 points.
TOUT WARS MIXED DRAFT: Scott White, who tied with Tim Mcleod last year, is trying to hold off 2014 champion McLeod, leading today by 2.5 points. Perennial contenders Rudy Gamble and Adam Ronis are in a knot with Tom Kessenich and Perry Van Hook 10-15 points back.
TOUT WARS AL: 2015 champ Chris Liss has run away with it and is 16 points ahead of Glenn Colton/Rick Wolf’s team.
TOUT WARS NL: Two-time champ (2011, 2018) Steve Gardner has an 8 point lead over league newcomer but three-time mixed auction champ Fred Zinkie.
Good luck to all in the final days of this year’s races. If you’d like to follow along with the races click these links: AL | NL | Mixed Auction | Mixed Draft | H2H | Draft and Hold.
We’ll announce the Tout Wars winners as they clinch.
If you’ve played Doubt Wars you’ll want to sign up for this year’s contest, which will go live later today.
If you haven’t played Doubt Wars a description is here.
So is the link to the signup form. Registration is closed.
