FANALYTICS: The Story of Tout Wars, Part 2
May 31 2012
My Wikipedia page says this:
"Shandler created Tout Wars in 1997 after being fed up with the lack of promotion USA Today gave its annual LABR fantasy baseball experts league."
It is a throwaway line from the Fantasyland book. It is incorrect and glosses over a rather complicated story. I began the story six weeks ago, here. It continues now...
December 1997
Bill Meyer was the owner of USA Stats, one of the leading independent commissioner services at the time. His representative in LABR was Mike Vogel, the writer whose only appearance was a title-winning performance in 1995. Meyer was as frustrated as the rest of us when it came to how the leagues were being run.
However, he saw an opportunity to help Baseball Weekly (BW),...
Almost!
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