Category: strategy

Tout NL Leader Brian Walton Looks at Reserve Lists

All the top prospects in the NL are already rostered, he notes in an article at KFFL.com, and many teams have lots of FAAB left. This doesn’t leave much room for maneuvering.

Tout Wars Mixed Draft Analysis Part 2, by the Sporting Hippeaux

For Gene McCaffrey, Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3.

Tout Wars Mixed Draft Analysis Part 2.

It makes one wonder, Sporting Hippeaux, where’s Part 1? Here it is. Tout Wars Mixed Draft Analysis Part 1.

Hey, Ian Dury, where’s Parts 1 and 2?

LISS: Preparing for an Expert League Auction

Rotowire’s Chris Liss tells how he has prepared for this year’s Tout Wars NL auction in the Bats blog at the NYtimes.com

I’ve just added an extra buck to my Stephen Drew maximum bid.

DRAFT PREP: Know Your League!

By Nick Shlain, special to toutwars.com

Each auction is unique, and none more so (if something can be more unique, at all) than the CBSsports Analysts Auctions. CBSsports’ holds their auctions in mid-February, before the start of spring training, and the onslaught of news about players that come with that. Perhaps because of that the CBS analysts draft has some other qualities of note.

Roto Think Tank’s Mike Gianella (rotothinktank.blogspot.com), a former CBS Analsyts champion (2009 AL, 2010 NL) and third place finisher in 2010 Tout Wars, was kind enough to correspond with me about this year’s auction.
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Tout Mixed: Steve Gardner Makes a Race of It

Or maybe you could blame Andy Behren’s bad luck with Kevin Youkilis. In any case, there is a race for first.

In this week’s Fantasy Insider column writes about how he’s shaped his Tout Mixed team, and also takes a look at his other teams and the different ways their fortunes have been shaped by his moves and Lady Luck. Most readers will see their teams in one of his scenarios.