Big bids in each league, but for different players. Read Mastersball.com’s analysis here.
Baseball Prospectus’s Mike Gianella, first place in Tout NL, has his analysis of the week’s Tout AL and NL moves. It’s free!
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Price is Right for Rick Wolf in Tout Daily Week 10!
On a night when many of baseball’s top hurlers took the mound, David Price led Rick Wolf’s Tout Daily at FanDuel squad to victory. On a night of weak scoring, Wolf’s offense was paced by Jose Abreu, Jacob Realmuto and Martin Prado, for a total 48.75 points.
Ron Shandler finished second, behind the arm off Jaime Garcia, and big contributions from Brian Dozier, Josh Reddick and Joey Butler.
Jeff Boggis led the 34 percent of Tout owners who ponied up for Clayton Kershaw, and finished third with big nights from Mike Trout’s and Pablo Sandoval’s bats.
Only two Touts picked David Price, who finished with 21 points on the night. The second, after Wolf, was Lenny Melnick, who finished fourth.
But perhaps the big story of the night were the 21 percent of owners who built their teams around Felix Hernandez, who ignominiously allowed eight runs while getting just one out, scoring -6.67 points. Fortunately for all, the one out was a strikeout. Of the nine teams that took King Felix, Gene McCaffrey and Craig Mish tied for best score, each ending up with 11.58 points.
After two weeks in Phase 3, week one winner Seth Trachtman remains in first despite not finishing in the money this week, with Derek VanRiper, who finished in the money both weeks, just behind him. For the leaderboard, click here.
For more about Tout Daily, click here.
Come play a daily game with the Touts on Tuesday night’s Tout Challenge!
This week’s winner:
June 8 Tout Wars FAAB Reports!
The Mastersball.com crew welcomes Mark Trumbo to the American League and and Joey Gallo to the majors. Big bidding ensued this week!
Mike Gianella’s BP report for Tout AL and NL is here.
Seth Trachtman Takes Tout Daily by FanDuel’s Week 9 Contest!
Seth Trachtman got only seven points from his pitcher, Charlie Morton, in Friday night’s Tout Daily contest, but an excellent offense across the board added up to a win in Week 1 of Phase 3 of the contest.
Even if Morton hadn’t earned the win in a wild game in Atlanta, Trachtman would have prevailed, behind huge games from Adam Jones and AJ Pollock, and solid performances from Jose Bautista, Paul Goldschmidt, Dustin Pedroia and Will Middlebrooks. Only Salvador Perez on his team failed to earn at least three points.
The next three teams, Paul Greco, Michael Beller and Andy Behrens all rostered favorite Jake Odorizzi for the evening, but their plans were dashed when he was removed after four and a third innings with an oblique strain. All three also had Adam Jones on their teams.
Trachtman takes the lead in Phase 3 of the five phase contest. Each Phase is four weeks. The three teams with the highest scores for the four weeks combined will earn tickets to the August 28th final, in which 15 teams will vie for $2,000 in prizes.
You can see the leaderboard here.
This week’s winning squad:
Five Beat All Touts in June 2nd #toutchallenge at FanDuel.
Despite rostering two Dodgers hitters (Kendrick and Ethier) who scored 0 total points in the team’s 9-8 win over Colorado, eggmantaxi took the June 2nd Tout Challenge behind a huge game from Chris Archer.
Four of the five teams that finished ahead of top tout Lawr Michaels had Archer. The other, like Michaels, had Lance Lynn.
The teams that beat the Touts: eggmantaxi, drew123, sportsprophet, fossa, and marshalld76.
The winning squad (click to enlarge):
The Touts who finished in the Top Half:
Lawr Michaels
Al Melchior
Charlie Wiegert
Scott Swanay
Adam Ronis
Jake Ciely
Doug Anderson
Todd Zola
June 1 FAAB Reports for Tout Wars!
First up, Mastersball does without Perry Van Hook this week, but manages to highlight some interesting moments in this week’s FAAB bidding. How much did you bid for Eduardo Rodriguez in your leagues?
Mike Gianella gets to ponder that question in his FAAB report at Baseball Prospectus, and he gets to fiddle over the NL free agent pool, which has been left for dead in recent weeks.
Tout X Roundup on June 1! Patrick Mayo Wins Round 2! Bret Sayre Overall Leader!
Patrick Mayo won Round 2 of the Tout X contest at Shandler Park, and climbed to within nine points of overall contest leader Bret Sayre, who finished tied with Jeff Boggis for second with 50.5 points.
Mayo also trails Boggis, who has shown consistency with 50.5 points in each of the contests two periods so far, by 1 1/2 points.
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You can access the contest leaderboard here. Learn more about Tout X here.
Round 3 starts tonight. Take a look at who each team picked and at what cost right here, when it’s posted.
Brian Walton Wins #toutdaily Battle, Loses War!
Brian Walton jumped out to an early lead in last night’s Tout Daily by FanDuel contest behind Cole Hamels’ pitching. Hamels was brilliant, as our Touts expected, except for two solo homers allowed to Troy Tulowitzki. Walton had Tulo, too.
Kolten Wong had a nice night, later, and Walton had him, too. Walton’s biggest problem was that Hamels was facing Chad Bettis, who had a perfect game through six and a no-hitter into the eighth. There was no W for Hamels, but Walton held on to win the night’s contest, finishing just ahead of Al Melchior and Lenny Melnick.
Despite finishing in the Top 10 in three of Phase 2’s four weeks, Walton finished sixth overall for the Phase.
Another team that finished Top 10 in three of the weeks was Lenny Melnick’s. Lenny ended up winning the Phase, with 182.24 points, easily ahead of Lawr Michaels (173.5) and Tom Kessenich (151.91), the other contestants who won tickets to the August 28 Tout Daily championship night.
Kessenich edged Seth Trachtman, who overcame a dismal P2:W1 to scratch to within three-quarters of a point for the third ticket.
For the Phase 2 Week 4 results, click here. For the complete Leaderboard, click here. For more about Tout Daily by FanDuel, click here.
Brian Walton’s winning team.
