Use the form on the Doubt Wars 2018 page to register.
Your team should be ready for entry a little while later.
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Tout Wars Write Ups
Commentary about all the Tout Wars auctions and drafts of 2018 is here. We’ll be updating this as pieces come up in the next week or two, so check back for more writeups and links.
NL: Behrens | Gardner | Walton | Albright |
Mixed Auction: Swanay | VanRiper/Heaney podcast | Flowers | Zinkie |Shandler | Sayre | Melchior podcast| Pianowski | Hershey | Heaney | Steinhorn
Mixed Draft: Gamble | Short | White | Ronis (podcast) and part 2 |
AL: Michaels | Podhorzer | Liss | Dennis | Erickson | Leibowitz | Davitt |
Tout Wars Radio Mixed Auction/NL
LINK: Rock ‘n’ Roll All Night Steve Moyer
Scott Engel and Steve Moyer bonded over their love for the band KISS’s first album. When Steve died recently, Scott put together a tribute.
http://rotoexperts.com/264088/rock-roll-night-rotisserie-baseball-every-day-remembering-steve-moyer/
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How To Cross A Border: Extreme Vetting Edition
Tim McLeod is on his way to New York City for his first in-person Tout Wars auction. Tim did win Tout Mixed Draft a while back.
He posted a story about crossing the border from his native Canada into New York State today on Facebook.
The price of Francisco Mejia just went up $3.
Coming Up! Tout Weekend 2018
Tout Weekend is fast approaching. This year teams competing in the four Tout Wars auction leagues will need the luck of the Irish, as all four auctions are taking place on March 17. Yes, St. Patrick’s Day.
The location is Richmond County Bank Ballpark, home of the Staten Island Yankees. In the home dressing and exercise rooms, particularly.
The schedule:
Tout Wars Party: Friday March 16, 2018. 7pm at Foleys NY, at 18 West 33rd Street. Come one, come all.
Tout Mixed Auction: Saturday March 17, 2018. 9am at RCBB. Auctioneer: Jeff Erickson
Tout NL: Saturday March 17, 2018. 10am at RCBB. Auctioneer: Brian Feldman
Tout AL: Saturday March 17, 2018. 3pm at RCBB. Auctioneer: Joe Pisapia
Tout H2H: Saturday March 17, 2018. 4pm at RCBB. Auctioneer: Todd Zola
SiriusXM Fantasy Sports will be carrying live coverage of the four auctions, which can also be followed live on the auction spreadsheet (link to come), and Twitter (@toutwars).
The event will be open to a limited number of guests. If you’re interested in attending, let a Tout know. Only people on the guest list will be admitted to the park. There will be food and drinks available for purchase by guests.
Thanks to the Yankees for inviting us, and Andrea LaMont and Lenny Melnick for working out the details.
LINK: Jeff Zimmerman, two-time Tout Champ, looks at the stats teams can buy on waivers
We missed this FanGraphs’ piece from February, which uses Tout Wars 2017 stats to ask and answer the question of how many stats do teams find in their original rosters, and how much is added later?
Tout Warrior Steve Moyer Has Died
Steve Moyer never won a Tout Wars title, but he was there at the leagues’ founding in 1998, and his contributions were an important part of Tout’s history. In 2001 we held the AL and NL auctions in his baseball memorabilia-filled basement in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania. Why? Because he thought we should, and he was right.
We have set up a GoFundMe to benefit Steve’s two daughters. Please feel free to contribute if you’re so moved, or to share it if you cannot. Thanks.
You can read memorials by Lawr Michaels and Peter Kreutzer at rockremnants.com, and by Ron Shandler and Steve Gardner and no doubt others on Facebook. The official obituary is here.