GM's OFFICE: Tout Wars Mixed recap—Bushels of bags
Mar 10 2017
Following on the heels of FSTA and LABR-Mixed drafts covered in this space recently, the Tout Wars mixed draft is the third and final event on my personal slate of industry drafts this year.
The Tout-Mixed draft was held this past Tuesday night, March 7. As a refresher on the format, Tout-Mixed is a 15-team mixed 5x5 event (just like LABR-Mixed), with the key variant that it uses OBP in place of batting average. The draft runs 29 rounds, with 6 reserve spots and unlimited DL spots.
As we did after those previous drafts, here is a recap of some of the key decisions that presented themselves through the course of this one:
Draft position
The first decision point came a full week before the draft, when draft...
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