Ramblin Wreck
Footballguy
I don't normally play H2H (stick to 50/50's) but played shooter early in the season in a $25 H2H (And I usually stick to $10 and $5 50/50s) and beat him. 
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FDuel Week 11 (1 Viewer)
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David Dodds
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Right now I am holding onto a seat (at 19), but will lose it when Gronkowski scores more than 8 points. I had a week for the ages winning everything under the sun. I bought 5 Super Qual seats to go with the two I won and right now am cashing with 4 of them. I also am winning a $270 tourney that pays $4K (and it does not look like I will be caught).
I have no one playing on Monday so need the dust to settle, but all told should win north of $16,000 this week.
I have no one playing on Monday so need the dust to settle, but all told should win north of $16,000 this week.
BassNBrew
Footballguy
Congrats David. I hope you make out like a bandit and score big.
That said, if you're going to focus on FD, isn't it time to hand over the FBG reigns to someone who will be focused on that on Sunday morning?
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JShare87
Footballguy
I did the same thing. I would be at 170 right now in 10th place. I took out Calvin, Antonio, and Ben a hour before kickoff because of the weather. Oh well woulda, coulda, shoulda every week it can be said it just hurts a little more this time.
I feel the opposite of most stories. In the last few hours I changed probably 50 or so lineups, removing the bad weather guys (Mccown, Marshall, A.J. Green, Jeffrey, etc..) and putting in the likes of Antonio Brown, Calvin Johnson, Mike Glennon and Vincent Jackson.
If Peyton and Moreno would have had solid games I would have won probably 90% of my entries yesterday. Unless Gronkowski has a HUGE night tonight, I'll still win around 75% and almost doubled my money.
Was a good day. Every week I seem to do well and every week I continue to feel like I get SO lucky. I honestly didn't think Brown and Jackson would have big days like that.
If Peyton and Moreno would have had solid games I would have won probably 90% of my entries yesterday. Unless Gronkowski has a HUGE night tonight, I'll still win around 75% and almost doubled my money.
Was a good day. Every week I seem to do well and every week I continue to feel like I get SO lucky. I honestly didn't think Brown and Jackson would have big days like that.
Jeff Pasquino
Footballguy
Can you post a link to the big contest? Interested to see what the Top 20 lineups look like, and what the total score required to win would have been.
TIA
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The Duff Man
Footballguy
Pantherz
Footballguy
Hopefully the Panthers can shut Gronk down. This little experiment is turning out quite nice. Good Luck!
David Dodds
Administrator
https://www.fanduel.com/contest/3007693/scoring
I am currently in 19th, but Gronkowski will likely push me out.
karmarooster
Footballguy
Yeah, he was a killer, esp. at 40% ownership. Sort of the opposite of Megatron's 200 yardage game last week. If you had Reed, probably you weren't in the money; if you had almost any other TE, you stand a decent chance of being in the money. I diversified with Gates, Clay, G.Graham, VD, Jimmy, and Gronk. But not enough - Reed was my highest owned TE by percentage. Also had too much of Sproles, Charles, and Woodhead, and not enough of McCoy.
Depending on how Gronk, Cam, and Amendola do tonight, I could finish up or down by about 25% I'm estimating.
Isn't it amazing how the daily player's mentality can change so drastically from Sunday at 12:30pm to Sunday at 11:30pm? It's like that feeling in re-draft immediately after the draft when everyone thinks "my team is invincible!" to "my team suuuuuucks...." ... compressed into a single day, repeated week after week!
karmarooster
Footballguy
I also find it really stressful to keep an eye on the FanDuel "Live" games tab... with so many entries, it's basically meaningless. If you're in the money early, it's probably just because you have a concentration of 1pm players, and if you're out of the money, just more SNF and MNF. But the "in the money" is almost counter-intuitive... just because you're in the money doesn't mean you'll stay, and just because you're out doesn't mean you'll finish out.
Unless of course you're playing in the 1pm only games... which I find more intriguing simply for this reason now!
Unless of course you're playing in the 1pm only games... which I find more intriguing simply for this reason now!
(HULK)
(Smash)
I'm rooting against this. Just did the math, if Gronk scores 20 points, I get a 247.5% return this week. 17 and I get a 204.5% return. A big game from him is big money for me
8 points still gets me a 132.5% return, which is nice, but a big game would basically put me back in the game after 2 losing weeks in a row.
TeeJayOrTj
Footballguy
My biggest problem has I always put my highest scoring lineups in the 50/50s next highest in triple ups and lowest in tournaments. I really need to get better at that
David Dodds
Administrator
http://img.pandawhale.com/50246-so-youre-telling-me-theres-a-c-SbQd.jpeg
I doubt I watch the game. I give myself less than a 10% chance here
I doubt I watch the game. I give myself less than a 10% chance here
donkshow
Footballguy
My rule is I don't put a lineup in a h2h, double up, etc without also pairing it with a tourney. I had a team go off for 200+ in a double up and since then I always enter it into both.
Ramblin Wreck
Footballguy
If Gronk gets about 8.5 points I can salvage a little loss. If he gets at least 12 and Amendola gets at least 14 then I can at least break even. Bad week.
Jeff Pasquino
Footballguy
Is the expectation for Thanksgiving that FanDuel will do a one-day NFL contest, as there is >1 game that day?
look at the last place team in the contest:
Grossman
Ray Graham
Gillislee
Stephen Williams
Michael Campbell
Drew Davis
Richie Brockel
Scobee
Texans
$200 for a chuckle I guess?
huh there are pages and pages of teams with the same position players who scored 0, can anyone explain this? is it some sort of thing done by the site to fill the entries?
hagmania
Footballguy
Bobcat10
Footballguy
Yes, that was the case last year iirc.
It might be because it's >2 though. Otherwise, I'm not sure why they do not have SNF/MNF as a contest....they lump in the next TNF with those two for their Primetime contest. Although, that could just be a way for them to get alot of action on that TNF game? I don't know...
hagmania
Footballguy
4 teams in 2 games satisfy those requirements.
My bet is the Primetime gets stretched to Thursday so people will check on their team between Monday and Thursday and sign up for Thursday night contests.
Steeler
Footballguy
hagmania
Footballguy
Probably that 2 times 4 is 8.
I've yet to really dabble in the Primetime stuff, I might cast a line every so often, but just on gut and no huge research to it.
dancingbones
Footballguy
Last year they did a Thanksgiving only contest. Good fun (and a reason to pay attention to the late game).
andrewd173
Footballguy
Panicked over the weather and pulled antonio brown from just the big tourny - $500 opps.
ajm27501
Footballguy
I believe I saw one of their mods post once that they can't offer contests on fewer than 3 games. I assume that otherwise the amount of duplicated lineups would be insane.
andrewd173
Footballguy
If I remember correctly, there are also some federal laws that require at least 3 games to make something a game of skill. Ran into this when Delaware started offering 3 game parley bets on the NFL games.
Federal law requires at least two games. (It has nothing to do with chance or skill. It has to do with the word "multiple" in the revised statute.)
The Delaware thing is irrelevant, though. Betting on sports games (as opposed to individual statistical performances within sports games) over the internet is illegal under federal law no matter how many or how few games are involved; but as long as it's not done over the internet (or using other technological wizardry such as phones or fax machines), betting on sports games is perfectly legal under federal law no matter how many or how few games are involved.
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karmarooster
Footballguy
Yeah, this probably cost me quite a bit too. For starters, I pulled McCown, Torrey Smith, and Josh Gordon. Oops. And then I subbed McCown mostly with Keenem. And I made up the difference with more Sproles. All in all the weather was so bad in Chicago that it forced the delay, until it was over, making it basically moot. And in Cinci and Pitt, it wasn't a factor. Thanks, Obama.
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bayshorebob
Footballguy
I had a similar problem although I took a different approach than the response. I use each line up in multiple formats...one in 50/50, one in either double, triple or quintuple up and then another in a 3-player or 5-player. Occasionally, I throw it into a 10-player but avoid almost all tournaments.
David Dodds
Administrator
My best week ever. I won $18,095 to bring my winnings to $48,780 for the year.
themeanmachine
Footballguy
I typically enter only 50/50s, varying the lineups a bit to spread the risk, and this is the first week I lost every one. I was due, as my winning % had been 77% for the season up until last week, when I just broke even (and was lucky to do so), and then this week's mess. My strategy has been to generally go cheaper on QB and TE (i.e., Keenum and Reed) in order to load up at RB/WR, and I'll likely stick with that again this week, but will mix in more lineups with mid-tier QB/TE to see how those do.
donkshow
Footballguy
Preliminary Week 12 lineup. Glennon, Thomas, Decker and Fleener will see the most variations in my lineup. The rest are pretty set.
Code:
QB Mike GlennonTB @ DETRB Zac StacySTL v CHIRB Pierre ThomasNO @ ATLWR Calvin JohnsonDET v TBWR Vincent JacksonTB @ DETWR Eric DeckerDEN @ NETE Coby FleenerIND @ ARIK Nick FolkNYJ @ BALD Tennessee TitansTEN @ OAK
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Bobcat10
Footballguy
I cashed under 25% of my 50/50s this week...easily my worst effort. Most of my lineups scored between 86 and 97 points. Missed a few cuts with a 107 and 110. I'm not sure if playing H2H would have made any significant difference, might have won a couple more. I'm also still trending better at 1pm Only contests.
The last two weeks have actually put me a little down on the season.
The last two weeks have actually put me a little down on the season.
karmarooster
Footballguy
Ended up about 2-3% ahead, despite having Sproles, Charles, and Keenum in way too many lineups. I took an over-diversification route and had tons and tons of players, but my only concentrations were on the wrong ones.
Anyone having luck with pairing a solid QB and RB? I did it earlier in the season with Manning and Moreno, and this past week with Wilson and Lynch (and Seattle D in some places). That basically made up the difference for a few of those rosters sucking across the board with Charles, G.Tate, and Reed.
This week, Vereen is finally available, and reasonable cheap, and Sproles is even less at $5000. Might have to go back to the well on that one.
Anyone having luck with pairing a solid QB and RB? I did it earlier in the season with Manning and Moreno, and this past week with Wilson and Lynch (and Seattle D in some places). That basically made up the difference for a few of those rosters sucking across the board with Charles, G.Tate, and Reed.
This week, Vereen is finally available, and reasonable cheap, and Sproles is even less at $5000. Might have to go back to the well on that one.
karmarooster
Footballguy
Sounds like most of us around here had tougher weeks, making your prediction seem true... but you were able to have the best week EVAH? Props for going against your own prediction!
David Dodds
Administrator
I had a pretty good week in a couple 109$ 50/50's and $109 H2H against people will low win records. I came out ahead even with having Keenum/Reed combo in a ton of lineups.
Looking at my lineups, your "mainstays" are pretty much mine. Thomas is huge value I think on Thurs, except you might have to worry about the other RBs (Cadet) getting carries with a big lead. I like Lacy's price this week vs. a poor MIN Def.
