Each year we publish links to the Touts writings and ruminations about what happened in the season that just ended. Here they are for 2021:
Draft and Hold: Michael Stein |
NL: Fred Zinkie | Phil Hertz |
Mixed Auction: Zach Steinhorn |
Head to Head: Frank Stampfl |
The season is in the bag, and surprisingly no playoff games to enliven our Monday. Here’s a quick rundown of the 2021 winners:
AL: Glenn Colton and Rick Wolf win their third Tout AL title.
NL: Fred Zinkie wins his second consecutive Tout NL title, and fifth Tout title overall.
Mixed Auction: Jeff Zimmerman wins his second Tout Mixed Auction title, and third Tout title overall.
H2H: Frank Stampfl wins his first Tout title.
Mixed Draft 12: Alex Fast win the first ever Tout Mixed Draft 12 title.
Mixed Draft 15: Adam Ronis wins his third Mixed Draft 15 championship.
Draft and Hold: Alan Harrison and Matt Williams share the glory, the first ever tied-after-the-tiebreaker co-championship.
Tout Daily: Ryan Bloomfield topped this year’s field. (Teams gained entry to the finals by winning each week, which is why Carty has so many entries. He won multiple weeks.)
At 8 PM Sunday night at the end of week one of the two-week H2H final contest – Frank Stampfl of CBS currently leads my team (Ariel Cohen of FanGraphs) in the 2021 Tout Wars Head to Head Championship. His current lead is a large one, sitting at just over 106 points. For now I am the reigning champion of the league, but I am in trouble.
After heading into Sunday down by over a hundred and fifty points, I managed to cut Frank’s lead down to about 100. At one point, the margin of victory was as large as 175 on Sunday … but I still had four starting pitchers throwing late afternoon out on the West Coast, which helped my team climb back.
Still, it was a miserable week. I haven’t scored fewer than 328 points in a week since back in July. Meanwhile, Frank is on a roll, scoring more than 400 points in four of his last five weeks. Stampfl picked the right time to get hot, while I have picked the wrong time to stumble.
Frank managed to generate his solid first-week lead despite not having Max Scherzer in his active lineup. But Nick Castellanos has carried his team through the weekend, homering in three straight games. His pickup of the week, however, was Tampa Bay’s Shane Baz. Baz is now 2-0, securing 50+ points for Team Stampfl.
I was done in this week by poor team play across the board, that happens, but I also made some poor managerial decisions. I left Kenley Jansen sitting on the bench while in real life he earned two wins and two saves. Jansen would have hauled in more than 40 fantasy points for my team if he’d been active. Marco Gonzales was my top performer – notching a seven-inning victory on Sunday against the Angels.
A 100+ point deficit is not insurmountable, but it is still a very tall order to overcome. Consider Frank the favorite to knock off the defending champ this week, denying me the chance to be the league’s first back-to-back winner.
Follow the action at onRoto.com. The results update each morning around 8 AM eastern. (Editor: We’ll have updates during the day next Sunday here at Toutwars.com if the race is close.)
If Frank does win, I wonder what scoring system he’ll choose next year? Did I make a mistake choosing CBS this year?
After 24 weeks of regular season games and two rounds of playoffs the final round is here. Two weeks, ups and downs on Mondays and Thursdays, waivers next Sunday night before the last week.
Meet your Tout Head 2 Head finalists.
Returning champ Ariel Cohen had the most points during the regular season and won more games than any other team.
Challenger Frank Stampfl finished the season with the third-most points overall, behind Cohen and seventh-place (!) finisher Andrea LaMont, then beat Nick Pollack and Ralph Lifschitz in the first two rounds of the playoffs.
Cohen beat 2019 Tout H2H champ Clay Link in his only playoff round, drawing a bye for finishing first.
Check in on the rosters and scoring each morning by clicking this link.
Tonight at the 8pm the Tout Wars leagues will have their first FAAB run of the year.
Join Peter Kreutzer and others at 8:30 to chat about this week’s moves on Zoom.
Topic: Tout Wars FAAB Meetup
Time: Mar 31, 2021 08:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
UPDATE: 10PM
Meeting is over. Sorry to all who tried to attend and didn’t get in. Rotoman didn’t put the proper security measures in place and Zoom did something to protect us.
We’ll try it again on Sunday. Look for log in information here at Toutwars.com on Saturday.
Sign up now by clicking here.
Learn more about the contest that let’s you play against the pros by visiting the Doubt Wars 2021 page.
What were they thinking? Listen to them, read them:
Mixed Draft 12 (Draft board): Entrekin/Fast (podcast) | Flowers | Towers | Behrens | Fast (podcast) | Melchior ($) | Entrekin |
Mixed Draft 15 (Draft board): White | Short | Gamble | Verougstraete | Van Hook | Wiegert |
Draft and Hold (Draft Board): Williams/Anderson (podcast) | Sheets | Hegglund | Hegglund/Gianella (podcast) |
AL (Draft Board): Erickson | Liss | Bloomfield | Podhorzer | Gianella | Gianella/Hegglund (podcast) |
Mixed Auction 15 (Draft Board): Karabell | Swanay | Steinhorn | Sayre |
NL (Draft Board): Kreutzer | Albright | Zinkie | Cockroft/Zola |
Head to Head (Draft Board):
Tout Wars is adding a new 12-team Mixed Draft League, which will draft online on March 2 at noon. The SiriusXM broadcast will be hosted by Jeff Erickson and Chris Liss.
Tout Wars Draft & Hold will commence on March 1. Look for a link to the draft board here (we expect it to take a couple of weeks).
Tout Wars Mixed Draft (15) will take place on March 9th at 8pm. We’ll the draft board here, and Glenn Colton, Rick Wolf and others will be covering on SiriusXM.
Tout Weekend is Remote Weekend, alas. The schedule is (times might change):
March 20 10am: AL
March 20 3pm: Mixed Auction
March 21 Noon: NL
March 21 5pm: H2H
Starting this year in Head to Head, the previous year’s champion will choose the scoring format from among ESPN, Yahoo, Fantrax and CBS.
We look forward to seeing you there!
