Category: About Tout Wars

The Tout Wars Market

Derek Carty writes for Baseball Prospectus and has been a Tout Warrior since 2010. He is part of a startup called FantasySquared, which is a new game that creates small stock markets that allow fantasy team owners to trade shares in their fellow owners’ teams, perhaps backing the winning team in their league as their own team fades.

The website has just launched, and one of the first leagues available for public trading is Tout Wars. You can sign up at the site and start building your portfolio right away. Rotoman bought a couple hundred shares of his team to win, because he’s confident, and 100 shares of Lenny’s team, because he bid up Rotoman’s prime stud hitter target, Hunter Pence, until he was out of reach.

Derek shared the implied odds thus far for all three Tout Wars leagues. Is there really wisdom in crowds? We’ll find out better once a critical mass has joined the site. But here’s the results of a small sampling: Continue reading “The Tout Wars Market”

Tout Wars Spreadsheets

The unofficial results are here. Use the tabs to find each league. We’re fixing mistakes and cleaning things up right now, so thanks for your forebearance. The rapid pace had us typing faster than we could think, especially in the mixed draft.

UPDATE: Tidied up a bit. Working on filling in the blanks, including mixed reserves.

A Rules Clarification…

Following some questions, we’ve changed the language in the Constitution to reflect the idea that:

A player is eligible at all positions he played 15 or more games at in the major leagues. If the only position he played 15 or more games was DH, he’s DH/Util eligible only for the draft.

If a player didn’t appear at any major league position at least 15 or more times, he’s then eligible at the single position other than DH he played most at all levels he played the year before combined, unless he didn’t play 15 or more games at any other fielding position. In which case he’ll be DH/Util eligible only for the draft.

The Roster Changes…

With one week until the draft, Joe Sheehan withdrew from this year’s Tout Wars AL, setting in motion a series of changes.

1) Chris Liss moves from the NL to the AL.

2) Derek Carty moves from the Mixed to the NL.

3) Zach Steinhorn, of mlb.com and mastersball.com, joins the Mixed league.

For a complete list of who is playing where, visit the Players page.