$2 gets you in the door at FanDuel in a game of 160, that pays $4 for each entry in the top 72. It’s a great way to try out daily fantasy baseball, with a decent chance to win a little.
Follow the link to sign up! http://fanduel.com/tout-challenge And play against Adam Ronis, Al Melchior, Gene McCaffrey, Jake Ciely, Todd Zola, Lawr Michaels and others in tonight’s challenge!
Todd Zola and the crew at Mastersball list the bids and write about them every week, and this week, too.
Jeff Erickson surveys the leagues he plays in FAAB results, which included Tout NL.
Mike Gianella’s BP FAAB round up is now posted at http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=26451.
When the dust cleared it was Lenny Melnick atop the heap in the Tout Daily by Fanduel, Phase 2 Week 3 contest, well ahead of Lawr Michaels. Michaels, however, remains the leader in Phase 2, with one week remaining. The top 3 teams in each Phase earn a ticket to the August 28 Championship week, in which $2,000 of prizes will go to the top 5 finishers.
Melnick, of course, had the week’s top pitcher, Gerrit Cole, as well as Kendrys Morales’s (owned by 2.4 percent of teams) surprisingly huge week (15.75 points). He also had Evan Longoria and AJ Pollock, which was enough to give him a nine point win.
Michaels also had Longoria, as well as the week’s second most favorited pitcher, Max Scherzer, and solid contributions from Logan Morrison and Steve Souza, plus across the board goodness. Only Brad Miller failed to contribute to his team.
Here’s the contest leaderboard, sorted by the Phase 2 leaders.
Here’s the winning squad:
Three teams beat all 23 touts in last night’s #toutchallenge at FanDuel.
demps2001 had big nights from James Shields, Nick Hundley, David Ortiz, Maikel Franco, Troy Tulowitzki, and Kole Calhoun, to finish first overall.
strombone1 featured Shields, Mark Reynolds, Ian Desmond, Bryce Harper, and Nelson Cruz.
frankiep2323 rode on the backs of Trevor Bauer, Nick Hundley, Willin Rosario, Maikel Franco, and Bryce Harper.
Doug Anderson, otherwise known as rotodaddy, rostered Shields, Franco, Desmond, Giancarlo Stanton, and Calhoun.
Phil Hertz was the other tout to finish in the Top 10, finishing seventh overall.
The rest of the touts who finished in the Top 50:
Adam Ronis
Scott Swanay
Lawr Michaels
Seth Trachtman
Gene McCaffrey
Peter Kreutzer
Join us on May 26th for another #toutchallenge!
Mastersball.com’s experts take on the four Tout Wars roto leagues with commentary and charts. I wish Brian Walton had pointed out that Kreutzer’s all-in bid would have been $28, just half of his winning $56 bid.
Mike Gianella goes all Fonzie over at Baseball Prospectus, covering the week’s transactions. Eh!
Plus, you get bonus LABR coverage in both pieces.
Face off tonight against 23 grizzled and hungry Touts in this week’s #toutchallenge. Use this link to sign up (http://partners.fanduel.com/processing/clickthrgh.asp?btag=a_7152b_984), and see how you fare in a one-day fantasy baseball contest!
Want to know who you’re playing against? Here’s a list of tonight’s Touts and their Fanduel names.
After six weeks of play, Mike Podhorzer is in first place in Tout Wars AL. He’s there, just two and a half points ahead of Rob Leibowitz, by virtue of an almost perfect offense, which has 58.5 of a potential 60 points.
Not only are Mike’s big bets on offense, like Prince Fielder, Hanley Ramirez and Jose Bautista, producing, but he’s getting outsized production from $1 endgame buys Devon Travis and Jose Iglesias.
The pitching staff, built around closers Koji Uehara and Sean Doolittle, with Scott Kazmir, Colby Lewis and CC Sabathia, has been good enough so far.
Mike’s team will be tested in coming weeks, having recently lost Alex Avila and Ike Davis to injury. Leibowitz and Jeff Erickson, who is also close, will be laying in wait for any stumble.
Get the complete standings and rosters here.
A snafu tangled the results of Tout Daily last night, when nine non touts were invited to play by mistake. Three of them finished in the Top 10, making a shambles of the official winnings screen. Here are the official results, with point totals and weekly winnings.
10.(t) Andrea LaMont 38.5 $12
Brian Walton 38.5 $12
8. Andy Behrens 38.75 $18
7. Scott Swanay 39.66 $18
6. Patrick Mayo 40.25 $24
5. Steve Moyer 40.91 $30
4. Gene McCaffrey 44.75 $36
3. Stephania Bell 49.16 $42
2. Seth Trachtman 51.5 $48
1. Chris Liss 54.91 $60
Seth Trachtman, second place finisher, started with Madison Bumgarner, who didn’t strike out many Reds but shut them down while his teammates ran up their big score. Trachtman also rostered Posey, but his team was otherwise powered by less-owned players, like Bryce Harper (14%), JJ Hardy (2%), Justin Turner (2%) and David DeJesus (2%). It seems there are any number of ways to compile a competitive team.
The top three finishers in each of the five phases will win a ticket to the Tout Daily By Fanduel final on August 28th, when fifteen entries will compete for $2,000 in prizes.
The Phase 1 winners were Scott Pianowski, Adam Ronis and Jeff Erickson.
