Again! Tristan takes the title for the third season in a row!
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Tout Wars American League Champs: Glenn Colton and Rick Wolf!
First-time winners walk home with a title that seemed clinched in August!
Tout Wars Mixed Auction: Crowns Derek Van Riper Champ
Derek Van Riper and Fred Zinkie and a handful of others battled through August and the first two weeks of September, but then Van Riper took a big step forward and won the Tout Wars Mixed Auction Crown.
Three time champ Fred Zinkie finished a distant second.
More to come.
Tout Wars Mixed Draft Final: Tim McLeod the Winner!
The official results are not official until the official stats update tomorrow morning, but the unofficial results are that Tim McLeod prevailed, moving from a Friday tie to a 111.5 to 109 victory over Perry Van Hook at season’s end.
We’ll have more when the results are official!
Tout Wars Mixed Draft Pennant Update!
Entering Monday’s action, or in other words, after 25 weeks of play, the Tout Wars Mixed Draft League pennant race was deadlocked. Both Perry Van Hook and Tim McLeod had 111 points each.
Since then, Perry has added a point, breaking out of a three way tie in Saves, and stands today at 112.
Tim McLeod, on the other hand, has seen his elite 57 point (out of 75) pitching staff take a beating. Felix Hernandez and James Paxton were creamed this week, while Madison Bumgarner was simply ineffectual. The bad performances were damaging psychically, but McLeod’s categorical leads were big enough to absorb the flood of earned runs and baserunners.
Going into Wednesday’s games he stands at 110.5, having gained half a point in wins (thank you Derek Holland) and lost a point in homers.
These two should be battling all week.
Final Mastersball.com SWAT report: September 22, 2014
The last Bidmeister run came at midnight last night, and players were bought with whatever FAAB remained. As it does each week, mastersball.com has compiled the bids and the results, with commentary about the action. You can read it here.
This week they’ve combined the Tout Wars and LABR reports. Even if you don’t care much about LABR, it’s worth getting past the LABR portion for Todd Zola’s take on FAAB rules and procedures.
We’ll be talking about some of these this winter at Tout Wars Headquarters. I’ve never played with a 1000 unit budget, but look forward to hearing people’s experiences dealing with it.
The Tout Wars Mixed Auction Reaping.
On September 1, there was a tangle of tributes scrapping for Mixed Auction supremacy.
But since then Derek Van Riper has been on a run. In the September standings he has scored 121 points, with Zach Steinhorn (104), Fred Zinkie (101.5), Ray Guilfoyle (95.5) and Al Melchior (95.5) trailing.
The contending teams have done well, but none so well as Derek. Today, before the start of the season’s final nine days, he leads Fred Zinkie by seven points.
Can Van Riper be caught?
Let’s take a closer look at the categories, and see who could gain, and if Derek can lose. The numbers are (points to be gained/points to be lost).
RUNS
Van Riper (0/0)
Zinkie (+2/-.5)
Steinhorn (+1/-2)
Melchior (0/-3)
Guilfoyle (+.5/-1.5)
HOME RUNS
Van Riper (0/0)
Zinkie (0/0)
Steinhorn (+1/0)
Melchior (0/0)
Guilfoyle (0/0)
RBI
Van Riper (0/-1) Eight ahead of Melchior.
Zinkie (0/0)
Steinhorn (0/0)
Melchior (+1/0) Eight behind Van Riper, who has five more RBI in September.
Guilfoyle (0/-1)
STOLEN BASES
Van Riper (+.5/-.5)
Zinkie (+.5/-.5)
Steinhorn (0/0)
Melchior (0/0)
Guilfoyle (0/0)
OBP
Van Riper (0/0)
Zinkie (+2/-1)
Steinhorn (+2/-2)
Melchior (+1/0)
Guilfoyle (+1/=1)
OVERALL HITTING
Van Riper (+.5/-1.5)
Zinkie (+4.5/-2)
Steinhorn (+4/-4)
Melchior (+2/-3)
Guilfoyle (+1.5/-3.5)
WINS
Van Riper (+1.5/-1)
Zinkie (0/-.5)
Steinhorn (0/-2.5)
Melchior (+1/0)
Guilfoyle (+1.5/-1.5)
SAVES
Van Riper (0/0)
Zinkie (0/0)
Steinhorn (0/0)
Melchior (0/0)
Guilfoyle (+1/0)
ERA
Van Riper (0/0)
Zinkie (+1/0)
Steinhorn (0/0)
Melchior (0/-1)
Guilfoyle (0/0)
WHIP
Van Riper (+3/-2)
Zinkie (0/-1)
Steinhorn (+1/0)
Melchior (+3/-1)
Guilfoyle (0/0)
STRIKEOUTS
Van Riper (0/0) Van Riper is only six K ahead of Davitt, but has 203 Ks this month, opposed to Patrick’s 130.
Zinkie (+2/-2) Zinkie has far fewer K this month than Heaney and Pianowski, but trails them by five and three respectively. There’s room for a miracle.
Steinhorn (+1/0)
Melchior (0/0)
Guilfoyle (0/0)
OVERALL PITCHING
Van Riper (+4.5/-3)
Zinkie (+3/-3.5)
Steinhorn (+2/-2.5)
Melchior (+4/-2)
Guilfoyle (+2.5/-1.5)
OVERALL OVERALL
Van Riper (+5/-4.5)
Zinkie (+7.5/-5.5)
Steinhorn (+6/-6.5)
Melchior (+6/-5)
Guilfoyle (+4/-5)
POINT RANGE (Max/Min)
Van Riper (123/113.5)
Zinkie (118.5/104.5)
Steinhorn (112/99.5)
Melchior (109/98)
Guilfoyle (106.5/97)
The bottom line here is that Van Riper can get out of harm’s way, but Zinkie has a chance to catch him. No one else does.
The Tout Wars Mixed Draft Horse Race!
It’s a match race. And it couldn’t be closer.
Tim McLeod has been the best Tout Mixed Draft team in September, while Perry Van Hook has been fifth best. Curiously, on September 1 Tim was in first place with 107 points, while Perry was in second with 105. Brent Hershey had a puncher’s chance back the, with 102.5 points.
Here’s what you need to know as we approach the last week (Likely possible gain/Likely possible loss):
RUNS:
Van Hook (+1/0)
McLeod (0/0) Tim is only nine runs ahead of Kessenich, but both have been equally productive this month.
HOME RUNS:
Van Hook (0/0)
McLeod (+2/-1)
RBI:
Van Hook (0/0)
McLeod (+1/0)
STOLEN BASES:
Van Hook (0/0)
McLeod (+1/0)
OBP:
Van Hook (0/0)
McLeod (0/0)
HITTING OVERALL
Van Hook (+1/0)
McLeod (+5/-1)
WINS
Van Hook (+.5/-.5)
McLeod (+2/-1.5)
SAVES
Van Hook (+2/-1)
McLeod (+.5/0)
ERA
Van Hook (0/-1)
McLeod (0/0)
WHIP
Van Hook (+1/-2)
McLeod (0/-1)
STRIKEOUTS
Van Hook (0/0)
McLeod (+1/0)
PITCHING OVERALL
Van Hook (+3.5/-4.5)
McLeod (+3.5/-2.5)
OVERALL OVERALL
Van Hook (+4.5/-4.5)
McLeod (+8.5/-3.5)
In no category are the two leaders competing against each other. Based on his current lead and his larger potential upside, McLeod has a slim edge, but this promises to be a nailbiter.