Baseball Prospectus’s Derek Carty takes a look at how the Swingman has been used in Tout NL this year, and he likes it.
Category: strategy
Crowded Response to Scarcity Issue: Tout Warriors Speak Out
Todd Zola asked the universe of Tout Wars participants to talk about “scarcity,” for this week’s Lord’s Roundtable at KFFL. Many spoke out.
Read Todd’s followup.
Mastersball Knights Joust on Swingman
Lord Zola, he of mastersball.com, convenes an assembly of his knights to discuss the new Tout Wars’ Swingman rule. Joined by Tout LLC member Peter Kreutzer, as visiting wizard, and including Tout LLC knight Lawr Michaels. Read the Grail here.
Do you think Tout Wars’ has a role as an innovator? Or do you think it should follow, not lead, general fantasy baseball trends? There’s room in the comments below to discuss.
Tout Wars Mixed: Game of Inches
Tim Heaney, of KFFL.com, shares the frantic, lamenting thoughts over his mixed Tout Wars squad…
Following a 4-for-31 offensive day, my Tout Wars mixed team needs a jolt as it remains in third place behind my colleague Nicholas Minnix and MLB.com’s Fred Zinkie.
I’m on my last legs. I brought in, from outside sports nonetheless, Dan Devine, Norman Dale, Eric Taylor, Herb Brooks and others to rile my guys up.
One day. One day until failure or success … regret or reward. Truly a game of inches. Continue reading “Tout Wars Mixed: Game of Inches”
Tout Wars Mixed: An incredibly helpless feeling
Maybe this is punishment for having the bravado to attend a Pearl Jam concert in Vancouver on Sunday night, the eve of the biggest three days of my fantasy baseball life. Just as Eddie Vedder and Co. took the stage at the Pacific Coliseum, the Tout Wars FAAB deadline passed, and my competition for the whole shebang in the mixed league landed the pieces that they believed would carry them past me by the end of Wednesday.
Just because you’re paranoid, don’t mean they won’t pass you.
I’ve been dangling from the first spot in the standings for a good portion of the last several weeks. I feel like a carrot, a brass ring, Ice-T in “Surviving the Game.”
WHIPed, stolen … saved? Continue reading “Tout Wars Mixed: An incredibly helpless feeling”
Shandler: Patience is a virtue
Sometimes doing better is the best you can hope for. Ron Shandler looks at his 2011 Tout AL season in USA Today.
Tout Mixed: The abnormal, exceptional average
Nicholas Minnix of KFFL.com reports on the Tout Wars Mixed pennant race:
I hate Marco Scutaro.
I was ahead of Fred Zinkie in batting average by 0.004 points heading into the baseball regular season’s final full week of games. Marco Freakin’ Scutaro made my stomach turn at the very beginning of it when he collected six hits in eight at-bats in Monday’s twin bill between the Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles. Continue reading “Tout Mixed: The abnormal, exceptional average”
Tout Wars Mixed: What’s that they say about third place?
Tim Heaney, of KFFL.com, shares the frantic, lamenting thoughts over his mixed Tout Wars squad…
9/19/11, 5:30 p.m. PT: My name is Tim Heaney. With 10 days to go, I sit in third place, behind my colleague Nicholas Minnix and MLB.com/FantasyBaseball.com’s Fred Zinkie, in 2011 Tout Wars mixed, a league in which I held the lead for a few long stretches.
I have $0 left in my Free Agency Acquisition Budget.
And I’m resting much of my title hopes on two of my newest acquisitions: Craig Gentry and Tony Campana.
Yup, Charlie Sheen would roast me over this. Continue reading “Tout Wars Mixed: What’s that they say about third place?”