MLB Network Preview Show Date and Tout Wars News.
Hey everyone here is some info for upcoming Fantasy 411 related news.
The 2011 preview show on MLB Network is slated for the evening of March 20th. It’s part of a huge fantasy weekend for us because that is also Tout weekend. Below is some info about Tout Wars that you’ll be interested in including some new rule changes you may want to use in your leagues, I love them.
March 18th is Tout night at Foley’s in NYC so come by say hello and buy us beers. Due to space limitations we won’t be able to have fans attend Tout drafts this year but Sirius/XM’s fantasy channel is planning on broadcasting some if not all of the drafts live so keep an ear out for that.
Here’s the rest of the info make sure if you want to get into writing or get noticed that you read all the way to the bottom……..Siano
Tout AL: March 19th at 9am.
Tout Mixed: March 19th at 3pm.
Tout NL: March 20th at 10am.
The league lineups are as follows (#=new league, *=Tout rookie):
TOUT AL
Jason Grey
Larry Schechter #
Jeff Erickson
Todd Zola #
Dean Peterson
Steve Moyer
Mike Siano
Jason Collette
Rick Wolf/Glenn Colton
Ron Shandler
Matt Berry
Lawr Michaels
TOUT NL
Nate Ravitz
Brian Walton
Lenny Melnick/Paul Grecco
Mike Gianella
Peter Kreutzer
Phil Hertz
Rob Liebowitz #
Scott Pianowski
Tristan Cockcroft
Scott Wilderman
Cory Schwartz
Chris Liss
Steve Gardner #
TOUT MIXED
Andy Behrens
Charlie Wiegert
Scott Swanay *
Fred Zinkie *
Eric Mack
David Feldman *
Nicholas Minnix
David Gonos
Derek Carty
Tim Heaney *
Paul Petera
Nano Di Fino
Seth Trachtman
Gene McCaffrey #
JP Kastner
RULES CHANGES
We want there to be something at stake apart from the SABR Trophy and bragging rights for winning, so we’ve added a couple of wrinkles (effective 2012):
Reserve round draft order will be based on the previous year’s finish. Last year’s first place team gets first reserve pick, second gets second, and so on. Players who change leagues will be slotted into the spot they finished in the league they played. Rookies will have the last picks. Ties will be broken by a random tiebreaker.
Teams will be penalized one FAAB-dollar for each point (rounded down) that they finish below league-specific thresholds. The thresholds are 60 points for AL, 65 points for NL and 75 points for Mixed. For instance, a Tout NL team that finished with 52 points would start the following year with 87 FAAB dollars, rather than 100.
So, some small incentives to keep pushing for points all season long.
THE TOUT WARS WEBSITE
We seek interested fantasy baseball writers to cover the Tout Wars action. This can be on a regular or semi-regular basis. All ideas will be considered. This is an excellent chance for young writers to meet and suck up to industry veterans, and get on the radar for future Tout Wars invitations. Make recommendations or have interested parties send proposals to webmaster@toutwars.com.
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