ROTISSERIE: Shadowdrafting NL Tout 2017
Mar 29 2017
This past weekend I was in Manhattan for the extravaganza weekend of Tout Wars. Saw old friends, made new ones, the whole deal. On Sunday, I watched the NL-only auction and shadowdrafted a team in real time. "Shadowdrafted" is really a misnomer—I simply added $1 to players that I would roster at a given price as they came up in the auction to create a fake team. It allowed me to gauge who I would have gone after if I were an owner in the league.
I used the same $30 pitching strategy that I used in LABR-NL when I really did buy a team. In Tout, there are some important rules differences, such as OBP instead of BA; four reserves instead of six and the four can be freely interchanged with active slots; $0 FAAB bids, which are not allowed in...
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