Who has been the most successful Tout Wars owner the last five years? Fred Zinkie.
Who has been the most successful Tout Wars owner the last ten years? Larry Schechter.
Who are the all time top 10 earners in Tout?
TOUT WARS LEADER BOARD
Years
AVG $ p/yr
All Time P/L
Larry Schechter
11
$256
$2,820
Fred Zinkie
5
$461
$2,306
Mike Lombardo
5
$316
$1,579
Tristan Cockcroft
9
$164
$1,473
Jason Grey
11
$125
$1,380
Ron Shandler
18
$53
$946
John Coleman
5
$170
$849
Sam Walker
6
$140
$840
Trace Wood
6
$140
$840
Chris Liss
7
$115
$804
You can find all this info and more in the Tout Wars Leaderboard, which has now been updated to include the 2015 finishes.
How is the Leaderboard calculated? Each team is attributed a $100 entry fee into the league. The winnings for each league are distributed to the top one third of the teams in the league, based on a proportional formula.
Doubt Wars is a contest we run immediately after the Tout Wars drafts in March.
Contestants are asked to submit full roto rosters made up of players with the standard $260 budget, at their Tout Wars draft prices plus $1.
The idea is for contestants to find the best draft day bargains.
Doubt Wars is also a chance to compete against the Touts. Can you put together a better team, based on draft day rosters, than they can?
This year, a technical glitch meant that Doubt Warriors made their rosters paying the Tout Wars draft price, which gave them $23 more to play with. The result was that, compared to the 2014 Doubt Wars, the civilians did far better against the Touts in 2015.
In 2016, the civilians will pay the Tout Price + $1. The Touts are not punching bags.
The pricing issue did not affect the competition among civilians. Here are this year’s winners:
DOUBT WARS NL: John Sullivan, playing as Roll2.
DOUBT WARS AL: Eric Mulkowsky, playing as Mr. Coffee
DOUBT WARS MIX: Nicholas Palczak, playing as Otto’s Army.
What looked to be a mano a mano duel between Adam Ronis and Rudy Gamble, is suddenly the story of a frontrunner being chased by three, yes three, teams.
To be sure, Ronis has enough of a lead that if he can maintain his point total a lot else has to go wrong for anyone to catch him. But now, instead of one team in his taillights he has three.
Ronis also has three and a half points, in steals, wins and WHIP, that could easily be lost. Were he to fall to 105, Gamble, Albright or the surprising (how did he get here) Perry Van Hook could catch him.
Van Hook has gained 7 points this week already, and could add perhaps three more with a perfect day. In one category, stolen bases, he and Ronis are tied.
You can hop over to onRoto and game out all the possibilities. There are a lot of them, if Ronis has a bad day.
In other news, it’s pretty safe to call the NL race for Mike Gianella, the AL race for Chris Liss, and the Mixed Auction race for Fred Zinkie. Congratulations to all three.
What’s at stake? An item on Foley’s menu in March, for one. (click to enlarge)
There are three days left in the season. Three games left for each major league team, though a massive storm plus a possible hurricane in the east may affect games in Baltimore (versus Yankees), Philadelphia (versus Miami) and New York (versus Washington). None of these series will matter in determining the playoffs, so rainouts on Sunday (or Saturday and Sunday) may not be rescheduled.
How are things looking in Tout Wars? Let’s start with the easy ones.
AL: Chris Liss leads Mike Podhorzer by 8.5 points. Liss’s volatility index gives him a range of 86-97 points. Podhorzer could finish with 79-88. The door is not completely shut, but everything has to go right for Podhorzer and completely wrong for Liss.
NL: Mike Gianella leads Tristan Cockcroft by 11 points. Gianella range is 87-95.5, while Cockcroft’s is 75-86. There is virtually no chance that Cockcroft can make up enough ground, no matter how badly Gianella’s team goes.
Mix Auction: Fred Zinkie leads Scott Swanay by 4 points, and Tim Heaney by 6. It’s good be Zinkie, for sure, but there are still lots of points in play. Zinkie has already gained three points in homers this week, but lost them in Runs, OBP, ERA and Saves, and is tied in Runs and Saves. There’s a lot of baseball left to be played here.
Mix Draft: Adam Ronis is 2 points ahead of Rudy Gamble, who is 3.5 points ahead of Grey Albright. Rudy has gained five points this week, which means he could give back five easily enough. He’s in a three-way tie in wins, with one ahead and one behind. One of the guys he’s tied with is Ronis. Crazy things could happen there. Gamble has five starts over the weekend, while Ronis has just two. There is also a four-way tie in saves. Gamble has Tolleson, Feliz and Robbie Ross(who has yet to get a save and wasn’t listed in the intial post), McLeod has Axford, Vizcaino, and Jepsen, Kessenich lost Huston Street and is left with Hector Rondon, and Paul Sporer has Andrew Miller and Cody Allen. Over three games, pretty much anything can happen in saves. Plus there are a mess of possibilities in ERA and Ratio. Keep your eye on this one folks! That said, Grey Albright doesn’t have much headroom, especially since Gamble and Ronis each stand to either gain or lose in the categories in which they’re tied, so it’s hard to see them both falling. Which makes Grey something of a spoiler, especially since he’s right behind Ronis in ERA and right behind Gamble in strikeouts, with his five red hot starters going.
