Archive for Tout Wars

It was a nail-biter, to say the least, but when the last out of the regular season was recorded, I won my fourth Tout Wars title, and third in the AL league. So how did I accomplish such a feat? It was a combination of some shrewd in-season pickups, along with a massive, massive sprinkling of good fortune. Now, nearly every league winner requires some dose of luck, whether it’s avoiding injuries, hitting on breakouts, etc., but this league was different. Let me allow this screenshot to do the talking:

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“No one cares about your fantasy leagues,” but: I am your 2026 Tout Wars 15-Team Mixed On-Base Percentage (OBP) Auction champion. I’m not sure how helpful draft and/or league recaps are for most people, but I figure debriefing a victory is as good a use of this time as any.

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Playing in a mono-league makes the MLB trade deadline even more exciting. Every year, a number of impact fantasy players switch leagues, giving fantasy teams with a stash of FAAB multiple opportunities to instantly improve their rosters. I always look forward to the deadline in AL Tout Wars, as a result. Unfortunately, I blew it this year.

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The Pallazzo episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guests: Sam Wirsching & Britton Allen

Draft Season Recap

• Tout Wars
• GDD
• Auctioning against Ariel Cohen
• “Mets Fireballer”
• Using AAV in auctions for non-standard leagues

Strategy Section

• How was this draft season different from all other draft seasons?
  • Rookies
  • Closers
  • Pocket Aces
• Lessons learned
• Draft regrets
• How long into the season should you use pre-season projections?

Bold Predictions

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

Buy/Sell/Hold

• Hot
  • Hitters
    • Andy Pages
    • Shea Langeliers
    • Sal Stewart
    • Liam Hicks
  • Pitchers
    • Cam Schlittler
    • Kevin Gausman
    • Joe Boyle
    • Bryce Elder
• Cold
  • Hitters
    • Josh Naylor
    • Spencer Torkelson
    • Marcell Ozuna
    • Caleb Durbin
  • Pitchers
    • Eury Pérez
    • Tanner Bibee
    • Nathan Eovaldi
    • Emmet Sheehan

Injury Update

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Last Thursday night, I was honored to be invited to participate in the inaugural Tout Wars Champions league. The league included competitors with a combined 36 Tout Wars championships. It’s one impressive bunch, to say the least!

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Every year many of the best minds in the fantasy industry are invited to leagues that draft in New York City in the middle of March for Tout Wars. I was also invited. 

This year I participated in the Tout Wars Mixed Auction. This is a 5×5 roto league using OBP instead of average. The other wrinkle in Tout Wars is unlimited IL slots, which definitely changes auction strategy compared to NFBC or other formats. 

After pulling a Labadini in my LABR auction, I wanted to go back to my traditional balanced approach to try and take advantage of what is often an over aggressive room. At least a few people expected for me to do something crazy or just go for the Labadini again, so by sticking with my normal strategy, I was hoping it would still throw some people. 

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John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images

This past weekend, I participated in the Tout Wars mixed auction. I’ve been in the league for about a decade and have won the league a couple of times. Previously, when I won the league, I used a value approach, but over the last few years, the league winners have leaned stars and scrubs. After some middling performances, I needed to find a way to get back to the top. I decided to lean into the league’s tendencies and rules to get ahead.

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The Tout Wars Recap episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Joe Gallina

Tout Wars Head to Head Auction

• Link to Auction Board
• Strategy & preparation
• What we noticed in the auction
  • Auction temperature
• How we pivoted during the auction
• Our best buys of the auction
• Our worst buys of the auction
• Player analysis
  • Tatsuya Imai
  • Jacob Misiorowski
  • Cody Ponce 폰세
• Relief Pitcher strategy
• Team Recaps
• Reserve round strategy
• Key takeaways

Aaron Judge record Tout Wars bids

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This past Saturday morning, I hopped on the NYC subway for the quick trip to Hotel Edison to participate in the annual Tout Wars AL-Only live auction and try to win a third AL-Only and fourth overall Tout Wars championship. It’s one of the most exciting days of the year, and it’s always bittersweet when it’s over, knowing that I’ll have to wait an entire year to auction with these lads again.

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I was excited about my AL-Only Tout Wars team this year on my quest to defense my 2024 championship, as I filled it with a ton of offense and a plethora of young potential pitching breakouts. This is how I usually do things, and sometimes it works out, while other times it doesn’t. This was one of the seasons where so much went wrong, but enough went right that I seemingly managed to finish far better than expected given my auction.

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