Month: April 2012

MLB Adds Swingman!

Following Tout Wars lead, MLB—via the new collective bargaining agreement—has added the Swingman. Here’s the story, from Deadspin.

Meanwhile, Brian Walton sings praise to the virtues of a limited reserve list and the swingman at KFFL.

This Week’s FAAB Reports

Mastersball starts a new weekly FAAB feature, with bid breakouts and commentary, here.

Steve Gardner’s weekly FAAB report is here.

And click the individual league links in the right nav bar for standings, rosters and all transactions.

Week 2 Transactions

David Gonos looks at the mixed league, while Steve Gardner surveys FAAB action in NFBC and LABR as well as Tout Wars.

You can always find links to the most recent NL, AL and Mixed Tout Wars transactions in the right navigation bar at toutwars.com. In fact, at midnight on Sunday night, you can View Bidmeister Bids and see how all the Tout Warriors bid in each league.

Crowded Response to Scarcity Issue: Tout Warriors Speak Out

Todd Zola asked the universe of Tout Wars participants to talk about “scarcity,” for this week’s Lord’s Roundtable at KFFL. Many spoke out.

Read Todd’s followup.

Rotowire on Sirius XM: Vickery and Hector Santiago in Tout AL

Jeff Erickson (85), Andy Behrens (51) and Chris Liss (45) talk about their bids this week on Hector Santiago, how Vickery changed them, and just how good Santiago might be. Plus a bonus: A theory that other White Sox closers manque have lost all their lustre.

Rotowire on SiriusXM…

The Bidmeister!

Tout Wars uses the onRoto stat service, and you can follow along with each league via the public page links in the right navbar here at toutwars.com.

At onRoto you’ll find the standings and rosters for each league and all team. You’ll also find the weekly Bidmeister logs, under Transactions Logs in the League Pages.

The Bidmeister is onRoto’s exemplary automated FAAB system. Each week team owner’s enter blocks of bids, starting each by designating a player on the active roster to reserve, release or disable, then listing free agents and bid prices for each. Of particular interest this week was Jeff Erickson’s approach in Tout AL. Of his $100 annual FAAB budget Jeff bid $85 in block 1 and $15 in block 2.

Because Tout Wars uses a modified Vickery bidding system, Jeff actually paid $52 for Hector Santiago ($1 more than Andy Behrens’ bid), and $10 for Vicente Padilla (the floor for bids of more than $10 that aren’t challenged by a bid of $9 or more.) Jeff now has a bullpen.

Lawr Michaels snuck through Fernando Rodney for $16.

Jeff Erickson:

  1. dis DMcGowan Tor:
    1. pur HSantiago CWS 85
    2. pur FRodney TB 23
    3. pur VPadilla Bos 15
    4. pur FMorales Bos 5
    5. pur LMendoza KC 1
    6. pur TWilhelmsen Sea 1
    7. pur JHowell TB 1
    8. pur JMcGee TB 0
  2. rel CRuffin Sea:
    1. pur FRodney TB 15
    2. pur VPadilla Bos 15
    3. pur FMorales Bos 5
    4. pur LMendoza KC 1
    5. pur TWilhelmsen Sea 0
    6. pur JHowell TB 0
    7. pur JMcGee TB 0
  3. res KFukudome CWS:
    1. pur JHannahan Cle 0
    2. pur RBrignac TB 0