And we got this video.
https://youtu.be/UwTpXVDHI5M
Head to Head War Breaks Out!
Howard Bender started it with an email to the league.
The only problem? The first “week” of Tout Wars H2H doesn’t end until April 17th! Jake has time to recover.
So do all the other losers. Here are the standings though Monday’s games. Scoring is two wins for three or more hitting categories, two wins for three or more pitching categories, and two wins for six or more overall categories. Ties split the two wins.
You can follow the results here all week long.
This Week’s Tout Wars FAAB Reports. April 10
Mike Gianella’s FAAB report at Baseball Prospectus is up and it’s good! This week he adds TW mixed bids to his LABR mixed report, and LABR AL and NL bids to his Tout Wars Onlies reports. Very interesting. Read it here.
Learned that Mastersball’s FAAB report was posted (here) with this tweet:
Brian Walton Wins Tout Daily by RTSports, Week 1!
Brian Walton, of Mastersball.com, sent in his picks for this week late in the afternoon yesterday, and we didn’t get a chance to compile them with the others. He wrote:
Hitter (3B): Evan Longoria ($5100) My top spend on a hitter on Friday is on Tampa Bay third baseman Evan Longoria. This will be the eighth year Longoria has faced Baltimore starter Chris Tillman, so there is certainly familiarity. Over his career against Tillman, Longoria is 16-for-49 (.327), including 10 extra-base hits of which six were long balls.
Pitcher: Yordano Ventura ($7300) Ventura and the Royals draw the Twins at home Friday night. In five career starts against them, the right-hander has held the Twins to a collective .231 batting average and logged 10.8 strikeouts per nine.
On a night when no one paid up for Trevor Story, Walton’s picks paid off when combined with solid nights from Jean Segura, Scooter Gennett, Taijuan Walker and Stephen Piscotty.
Other top finishers include Doug Anderson (also rostered Ventura and Longoria, but his big hitter was Chris Carter), Patrick Mayo (got big games from Chris Tillman and Delino Deshields), Michael Beller (Tillman and Ventura and Deshields), and Tom Kessenich (went his own way, with Jaime Garcia, Taijuan Walker, Scooter Gennett and Jean Segura).
Jeff Boggis’s lineup (led by Brock Holt and Starling Marte) was submitted on time but because of a technical glitch landed in the wrong place. He’ll get credit for a fourth place finish.
The rest of the Top 10 finishers were Rotoman, Scott Engel, Gene McCaffrey, Scott Pianowski, Rudy Gamble, Jason Collette and Ron Shandler (the last three in a tie for 10th).
Week 2 of Segment 1 of the Tout Daily Tournament will take place next Friday, April 15th. Read all about it here at ToutWars.com.
To play RTSports Daily Fantasy Games visit RTSports.com/tout-wars.
I Wonder Who The Touts Are Playing Tonight! Tout Daily At RTSports.com/daily!
The touts of Tout Wars (@toutwars) are playing Tout Daily tonight, the first of 21 Friday contests that will lead to the crowning of our second Tout Daily champion.
Last year’s champ, Charlie Wiegert, won the final night’s competition by being the only Tout to roster Clayton Kershaw!
You can follow along with tonight’s contest at https://www.rtsports.com/daily/scoring-baseball/5442619/
Here’s who some of the Touts are liking:
Champion Charlie Wiegert says, The game is a little different this year, you get 2 pitchers in the RT sports DFS game, which I prefer! But you still need two good ones. I’m going with Jamie Garcia ($6,900 @ Atlanta) tonight. Cardinals need to get on track, and hopefully his spring success will carry over tonight. For the top hitter, I’m spending top $ on LA 1st baseman Adrian Gonzalez ($5,900 @ San Francisco) going against Matt Cain and SF. Dodgers have been on a roll, and he’s in the right spot to have a big night against a pitcher that might not be ready for prime time again yet!
Craig Mish says that Matt Wisler ($4900 vs. St. Louis) as a second pitcher is worth a shot. Cardinals having major offensive issues to start the season with a ton of swings and misses. Hopefully Wisler will grab 4-5 K’a and a QS. Don’t need much to get the value here. George Springer ($5,900 @ Milwaukee) is one of many Astros to use tonight. Springer showing early better plate discipline and seems ripe for a couple hits in Milwaukee.
Al Melchior says his Top Pitcher is Yordano Ventura ($7,300 vs. Twins), who is is one of my top breakout picks for this season, based on the dramatic improvements he made down the stretch last season. He was particularly tough on righties in 2015, and the Twins don’t have any left-handed hitters that worry me. The Top Hitter: Nelson Cruz ($5,900 vs. Athletics), No qualifying hitter in the majors had a higher wOBA against lefties than Cruz last season. Eric Surkamp won’t be among the better southpaws to face Cruz this season, so it could be a big night for Seattle’s slugger.
Eno Sarris says Jaime Garcia ($6,900 @ Atlanta). This one is too easy. Jaime Garcia is really really excellent when he’s healthy. With a plus-plus ground-ball rate with three pitches that rate above average by whiffs, Garcia is also really good at changing speeds and movements on his fastballs. It’s almost like he’s got four or five fastballs out there. You don’t have to worry about keeping him healthy like the Cards do. You just have to enjoy the matchup against that lowly Atlanta offense, and ace-like stats for mid-table pricing. And Addison Russell ($4,600 @ Arizona). Russell quietly changed his swing heat maps late last year, choosing to stop swinging at pitches inside off the plate and down off the plate. That improved his strikeout and walk rates. His developing power is in a great situation Friday night against a lefty with a bad changeup in a good hitter’s park. Yes, Robbie Ray throws hard and has a decent slider. This is someone Russell can handle, though.
Rotoman took Jaime Garcia ($6,900 @ Atlanta) and Addison Russell ($4,600 @ Arizona), too. Because good pitcher against bad offense, why not? And the ball is flying out in Arizona.
Tim Heaney liked Jaime Garcia ($6,900 @ Atlanta): Tasty matchup for the Cards’ southpaw against one of the league’s weakest lineups. And Luis Valbuena, ($3,800 @ Milwaukee): Valbuena hit 25 HR and crushes righty arms. He should tee off against Chase Anderson.
Phil Hertz will go with Andrew Mccutcheon ($6,200 @ Cincinnati) and Francisco Liriano ($8,100 @ Cincinnati). Pirates on a roll.
David Gonos is picking Marcus Stroman ($8,100 vs. the Red Sox) and Mitch Moreland ($4,900 @ Anaheim).
Look for more next week.
Tout Wars Daily Starts Tonight!
It’s year two of the Daily Fantasy Sports contest that lasts 21 weeks!
Sponsored by RTSports.com, the Touts will be playing every Friday, with the goal of making the championship match and succeeding 2015 champion Charlie Wiegert on August 26th.
Follow tonight’s action at https://www.rtsports.com/daily/scoring-baseball/5442619/
To learn more about RTSports Daily Fantasy Contests, visit rtsports.com/tout-wars.
Mastersball and Baseball Prospectus FAAB Analysis April 4!
Five leagues, five FAAB charts, with commentaries, winners and losers, right here from Mastervision!
Baseball Prospectus takes on Tout AL and Tout NL, with irregular commentary about Tout Mixed Auction.
Doubt Wars Update! Is Your Entry In?
The AL and NL leagues are full. There are still a few Mixed league entries open. To join Doubt Mixed use the form here.
If you have signed up, signed up for onRoto, and found your team, but it isn’t clear how to make your entry. Look in the left nav under TEAM for Make Transactions. Click CREATE TEAM and you’ll be in business.
Thanks for all you enthusiasm. We’ve extended the Roster Entry deadline to April 2, some time in the evening. We’ll keep it open as late as we can, and everyone can jigger their lineups until closing. but we’re going to close on Saturday night. Get in early.