Doubt Wars Weekend! Play Against the Pros!

doubtwarslogoLast weekend, 39 fantasy baseball teams vied for three Tout Wars titles in three epic auctions held at Sirius XM headquarters in New York City.

This weekend, you get to pit your fantasy baseball knowledge against those Tout Warriors, in a game we call Doubt Wars.

Here’s how to play (CONTEST CLOSED FOR THIS YEAR):

Pick a league, either AL, NL or Mixed. Spreadsheet is here. Continue reading “Doubt Wars Weekend! Play Against the Pros!”

Tout Wars Auction Weekend: The Results Are In!

The spreadsheet is here, with all four league’s results. (Look for the tabs on the bottom or top of the page.

Comments on the auctions by the participants:

NL: Rotoman * Liss * Gardner * Melnick * Liss on YouTube (with Erickson) * Zola * Carty * Gianella

AL: Collette * Erickson * Siano * Berry * Erickson on YouTube (with Liss) * Behrens * Leibowitz * Michaels * Shandler

Mixed: Sherpa * Cory Schwartz’s Tout Ahem Projected Standings * Mack * Schwartz * Zinkie * Flowers * Gonos * Steinhorn * Minnix * Heaney
* Davitt
By others:

AL: Faketeams

NL: Rotoworld * faketeams

Both: Faketeams Shadowdrafts AL and NL Tout

Mixed: Ryan Carey Shadowdrafts *

If you’ve posted about the Tout Wars auctions (or draft) and don’t see a link here, please send it to webmaster (at) toutwars.com. Thanks.

Tout NL Live Blog! TRANSCRIPT!

[Mar 24 2013, 12:58 PM] meeson834: only an hour away! Im excited too see who will be the 1st one thrown out. Ill bet Kemp
[Mar 24 2013, 1:24 PM] TozRotoThink: Good morning everyone.
[Mar 24 2013, 1:25 PM] Tim McLeod: Lots of injuries in NL, should be very interesting today
[Mar 24 2013, 1:25 PM] Tim McLeod: Morning Toz
[Mar 24 2013, 1:26 PM] TozRotoThink: Morning sir…you have a busy blogging schedule, eh?
[Mar 24 2013, 1:26 PM] KaaashMan: Heya, yep should be.. what does Boggs/Motte go for, for one example.
[Mar 24 2013, 1:26 PM] Tim McLeod: Have a busy everything Toz
[Mar 24 2013, 1:26 PM] TozRotoThink: I hear that my friend. Well, despite being a couple of hours away, I’ll come and live blog with you.
[Mar 24 2013, 1:27 PM] Tim McLeod: excellent!
Continue reading “Tout NL Live Blog! TRANSCRIPT!”

Tout Wars Mixed Auction Live Blog! TRANSCRIPT

[Mar 23 2013, 6:44 PM] Chris Gale: So will there be punch and pie served at these festivities?
[Mar 23 2013, 6:45 PM] Scott Gilroy: Sandwiches, fruit and cookies actually
[Mar 23 2013, 6:46 PM] Chris Gale: Figures.
[Mar 23 2013, 6:52 PM] Scott Gilroy: Hey Justin
[Mar 23 2013, 6:52 PM] Jason Collette: We will be under way in approximately 15 minutes
[Mar 23 2013, 6:54 PM] sooverylame: who does the most trash talking in the room?
[Mar 23 2013, 6:57 PM] Jason Collette: In this room? That would be Eric Mack
[Mar 23 2013, 6:58 PM] sooverylame: Lol if he’s the Kevin Garnett in the room whos the carmelo ?
[Mar 23 2013, 6:59 PM] Jason Collette: His twin brother, Gonos Continue reading “Tout Wars Mixed Auction Live Blog! TRANSCRIPT”

Live AL Auction Blog! TRANSCRIPT.

[Mar 23 2013, 12:57 PM] admin: Hi all. We’re getting settled. Preliminaries are about to start.
[Mar 23 2013, 1:04 PM] Tim McLeod: Good morning folks. Good fortunes to all partaking this am
[Mar 23 2013, 1:08 PM] admin: Hi Tim. We’re just getting it all together.
[Mar 23 2013, 1:09 PM] Tim McLeod: Excellent
[Mar 23 2013, 1:13 PM] Scott Gilroy: Seems dark in there
[Mar 23 2013, 1:13 PM] Tim McLeod: Take your sunglasses off Scott!
[Mar 23 2013, 1:16 PM] admin: Schechter throws out Trout for $40. Crickets
[Mar 23 2013, 1:16 PM] Tim McLeod: no $41?
[Mar 23 2013, 1:16 PM] admin: Collette throws out Josh Hamilton for $25. Crickets.
[Mar 23 2013, 1:16 PM] Paul Sporer: wow
[Mar 23 2013, 1:16 PM] admin: Moyer throws out Scherzer (sabermetric darling) for 15.
[Mar 23 2013, 1:17 PM] admin: Colton/Wolf wins him for $21.
[Mar 23 2013, 1:17 PM] admin: Wieters for 19 to Erickson.
[Mar 23 2013, 1:18 PM] admin: Mariano 5, 10, 13, 15, 17, 18.
[Mar 23 2013, 1:18 PM] admin: Still going Continue reading “Live AL Auction Blog! TRANSCRIPT.”

Dave Gonos’s Mixed Auction Values

Foolish or famous?

That’s the question Dave Gonos asks as he publishes his mixed league dollar values the day before the Tout Wars Mixed Auction takes place in New York City. Want to follow along and see if Dave backs up his cheat sheet? See them here.

Mixed Draft: Touts Talking About Their Teams

Ray GuilfoyleMike PodhorzerGrey Albright (written by Rudy Gamble) –

Others talk too…

Mark “Dr. Roto” Bloom and new RotoExperts weekend host Gregg Sussman talk about Scott Engel‘s team.

Text Transcript: The Tout Mixed Draft Live Blog

Hosted by Jason Collette. This isn’t the prettiest presentation, but it’s easy to search.

[Mar 10 2013, 5:19 PM] toutwars: The live chat will begin at 5:30pm on March 11!
[Mar 10 2013, 6:58 PM] Tim Vermeulen: EST, I presume?
[Mar 10 2013, 9:40 PM] Jason Collette: you presume correctly
[Mar 11 2013, 7:34 PM] Scott Gilroy: Go Tim Mcloud!!
[Mar 11 2013, 9:50 PM] SiberianJay: Tim McLeod’s barmy army are here!
[Mar 11 2013, 9:50 PM] Scott Gilroy: Evening fellas
[Mar 11 2013, 9:50 PM] JeffErickson: Greetings everyone.
[Mar 11 2013, 9:52 PM] Scott Gilroy: Is Sirius Fantasy sports radio covering the draft?
[Mar 11 2013, 9:52 PM] Jason Collette: The radio is covering the 1st 2 hours
[Mar 11 2013, 9:52 PM] JeffErickson: Thanks to all the touts drafting, and everyone hear to check out the results. We hope this league takes off like the three live drafts.
[Mar 11 2013, 9:56 PM] Scott Gilroy: The winner of this league could get a shot at one of the Live auction leagues the next season. Make it a battle to move up
[Mar 11 2013, 9:57 PM] Jason Collette: and with that win comes the costs of travel to NYC 🙂 Continue reading “Text Transcript: The Tout Mixed Draft Live Blog”