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Tout Wars 2015: This Year’s Mixed Draft Lineup

toutwarslogo-newsmallThe 2015 Mixed Draft will take place in early March, date and time to be announced soon. We’re working to coordinate SiriusXM coverage of the draft, if possible.

There is one new rule for the Tout Wars Mixed Leagues. The reserve list will expand from four to six players this year.

This year’s owners, in order of last year’s finish, adjusted for new members Wilton and Gamble. The number in parenthesis is the amount of FAAB each team starts with. Draft order and FAAB budget are based on Tout Wars rules. Draft order will be announced later.

Tim McLeod (100) 2014 Champion
Perry Van Hook (100)
Brent Hershey (100)
Ray Murphy (100)
Adam Ronis (100)
Tom Kessenich (100)
Anthony Perri (100)
Paul Greco (99)
Rick Wilton (100) Returning. Last result was ninth place finish in Tout AL in 2010.
Charlie Wiegert (95)
Paul Sporer (93)
Grey Albright (89)
Eno Sarris (85)
Greg Ambrosius (83)
Rudy Gamble (100) New to Tout Wars.

Tout Wars 2015: National League Lineup Is Announced

toutwarslogo-newsmallThe 2015 National League auction will take place on March 22 at 10am in New York City. The location will be announced later this month. The draft will be carried live by SiriusXM radio.

This year’s owners, in order of reserve round pick. The number in parenthesis is the amount of FAAB each team starts with. Reserve order and FAAB budget are based on Tout Wars rules.

Tristan Cockcroft (100) 2012, 2013, 2014 Champion
Steve Gardner (100)
Phil Hertz (100)
Mike Gianella (100)
Derek Carty (100)
Ray Guilfoyle (100) Transfer from Mixed Auction
Lenny Melnick (100)
Todd Zola (93)
Brian Walton (93)
Peter Kreutzer (92)
Scott Wilderman (89)
Gene McCaffrey (86)

Tout Wars 2015: American League Owners Are Announced

toutwarslogo-newsmallThe 2015 American League Auction will take place on March 21 at 9am in New York City. The location will be announced later this month. The draft will be carried live by SiriusXM radio.

This year’s owners, in order of reserve round pick. The number in parenthesis is the amount of FAAB each team starts with. Reserve order and FAAB budget is based on Tout Wars rules.

Rick Wolf/Glenn Colton (100) 2014 Champions
Rob Leibowitz (100)
Lawr Michaels (100)
Jeff Erickson (100)
Seth Trachtman (100) transfer from NL
Ron Shandler (100)
Larry Shechter (100)
Steve Moyer (90)
Jason Collette (90)
Mike Podhorzer (87)
Andy Behrens (76)
Chris Liss (68)

Tout Wars 2015: Mixed Auction Lineup is Announced!

toutwarslogo-newsmallThe 2015 Mixed Auction will take place on March 21 at 3pm in New York City. The location will be announced later this month. The draft will be carried live by SiriusXM radio.

There is one new rule for the Tout Wars Mixed Leagues. The reserve list will expand from four to six players this year.

This year’s owners, in order of reserve round pick. The number in parenthesis is the amount of FAAB each team starts with. Reserve order and FAAB budget is based on Tout Wars rules.

Derek VanRiper (100) 2014 Champion
Fred Zinkie (100)
Zach Steinhorn (100)
Tim Heaney (100) won coin flip
Al Melchior (100) lost coin flip
Scott Pianowski (100)
Eric Mack (100)
Scott Engel (100) transfer from Mixed Draft
Scott Swanay (95)
Nando DiFino (93)
Paul Singman (88)
Patrick Davitt (85)
Cory Schwartz (84)
Ray Flowers (69)
David Gonos (68)

Solds: Steinhorn and Schwartz on a new category proposal

Every fall we solicit rules change suggestions from the team owners in Tout Wars. Despite our recent move replacing BA with OBP, which some love and some hate, we’re generally more interested in tinkering with the procedures, making them more fair, easier, and hopefully innovative. A major rules change, like replacing Saves with Saves + Holds (or some permutation of such) will be considered seriously, but the default position, as with replay, is with the status quo. There has to be a good reason to make the change.

I bring this up because this year there has been a strong sentiment among some owners to switch from Saves to Saves + Holds (Solds, Ray Flowers called it), which led Zach Steinhorn to write a 411 post about some work Cory Schwartz put together yesterday. Cory gets at just what seems so dicey about Holds as a category, and makes a pretty good case for sticking with the closers.

Rotowire’s Derek VanRiper Explains How He Won Tout Mixed Auction.

Over at Rotowire’s blog.

Good health and good pitching pickups on the waiver wire were a part of it, but to get the full measure check out the full post. His showing of draft prices and season earnings for each roster spot is instructive.

The Tout Wars Leaderboard is Updated!

NOTE: The link has been fixed.

The Top 5 All Time Tout Wars Earners (based on $100 entries divided among top teams each season):

Larry Schechter $2,920
Fred Zinkie $1,632
Mike Lombardo $1,579
Jason Grey $1,380
Tristan Cockcroft $1,253

Top 5 Earners since 2010:

Fred Zinkie $1,632
Tristan Cockcroft $1,553
Larry Schechter $1,420
Steve Gardner $736
Jason Grey $600

See all the results at The Tout Wars Leader Board.