FDuel Week 11 (1 Viewer)

[andrewd173]

I've been playing around a bit with my optimization program.

In any case, I'll have to think about whether there's a useful way to present the top N FanDuel lineups (and I don't know what N should be) for each set of projections going forward. It wouldn't be too hard to just dump all the lineups into tables and let people scroll up and down. Any ideas from y'all are welcome. (The best way might be to have, for any given projector and salary cap, the optimal lineup on the left side of the screen, and then when you click a player in that lineup, the best lineup without him shows up on the right side of the screen. That might be the most useful way to do it, but I'd need to learn more CSS, javascript, and jquery than I currently know. Sounds like a good project.)

The simplest way I have seen something like this done is through an option to blacklist teams or players. (rotoviz). This allows you to manually drill down through the next best options, but is a bit tedious going player by player, with no feedback except the current lineup. However, appears relatively easy to implement.

Ideally, a system where you could display several differently crafted lineups on one page - or a new window without overwriting the old - would be the most helpful to myself. If it helps, my end goal is to work up 3-5 lineups with maybe 2-3 core players, and the rest unique combinations.

 

[andrewd173]

Looking like a tough week for me, too. Down almost 50% from last week... still got a few guys tonight (Mike James, Bucs D) but sure that others have a variety of VJax, Glennon, Miller, Wallace, what have you.

Locker and Eli killed me. Jimmy Graham killed me. Was not a great week to go heavy on Graham at the expense of JT, Witten, Reed, etc. Ugh.

Should've stuck to the script - 50/50s only. I'm not gonna hit the money in any of the Triples/Quintuples I played.

Similar boat with locker, graham, and decker/keenan allen to some extent. Not sure how bad the result will be until the end.

 

[Mackin]

Had a big week, went heavy on a lot of high end WRs like Calvin, AJ, Demarius and Marshall. Obviously paid off. This week was odd at the other positions, so I think that helped.

I think one thing I had to adapt this week was just trying to go common sense, use the numbers that I run on guys, but don't trust them blindly. Numbers said Demarius was a decent play, but Decker was the better value. I used pro football reference to look at the chargers so far this year and saw that #1 receivers torch them consistently. Maybe I just got lucky, but just maybe I'm on to something.

Food for thought.

 

[hagmania]

My opinion on 50/50s vs tourneys is changing. I'm not a grinder, ie I don't want to do this as any reliable source of income. I want to spend a little and try to win big every week. I like the lottery ticket.

To make money as a 50/50 grinder, the amount of work you need to set a consistent lineup (because you'll be using this lineup in large amounts across several games) can be undone by one bad read, injury, freak play, etc. It's tougher to accept your bad breaks, imo, because of how wrong it can all go in one Sunday.

But the EV!@!!@!@~ - I'll still probably dabble with H2H 50/50s here and there, but for the most part I'm trimming back to playing in one or two large-field events, I think.

 

[donkshow]

My opinion on 50/50s vs tourneys is changing. I'm not a grinder, ie I don't want to do this as any reliable source of income. I want to spend a little and try to win big every week. I like the lottery ticket.

To make money as a 50/50 grinder, the amount of work you need to set a consistent lineup (because you'll be using this lineup in large amounts across several games) can be undone by one bad read, injury, freak play, etc. It's tougher to accept your bad breaks, imo, because of how wrong it can all go in one Sunday.

But the EV!@!!@!@~ - I'll still probably dabble with H2H 50/50s here and there, but for the most part I'm trimming back to playing in one or two large-field events, I think.

That's basically my thoughts too.

 

[mcd]

My opinion on 50/50s vs tourneys is changing. I'm not a grinder, ie I don't want to do this as any reliable source of income. I want to spend a little and try to win big every week. I like the lottery ticket.

To make money as a 50/50 grinder, the amount of work you need to set a consistent lineup (because you'll be using this lineup in large amounts across several games) can be undone by one bad read, injury, freak play, etc. It's tougher to accept your bad breaks, imo, because of how wrong it can all go in one Sunday.

But the EV!@!!@!@~ - I'll still probably dabble with H2H 50/50s here and there, but for the most part I'm trimming back to playing in one or two large-field events, I think.

Exact opposite for me. I do agree that entering 30-50 $5/$10 smaller lineups is just too much work, so I have dropped down to playing a few $50 & $109 50/50s over the last few weeks. I'll go in on Wednesday & set my lineup in a $5 50/50. Then I'll get up on Sunday morning, look at the rotogrinders & Dodds lineup info & fine tune whatever I need to & post my $50/$109 leagues. At 11:45 I go back in & look for any late add/drops. I don't spend a ton of time going back & fourth anymore, my initial lineup is usually 70% of what I run with unless an injury crops up..

Made about 30% on Fanduel this week & was 1/2 a point from being at 80%. Started playing DraftStreet this week & looks like I will make about 15% even with Locker in all my lineups.

All that said, it's good to see people willing to walk away from it if they are not winning. This type game is very addictive & is not worth dumping money into every week if you are not making a decent return.

Initially I wanted to turn my original $50 investment into $1000. I'm on course to do it so I'm good with the ups & downs.

 

[fbelange]

People on here are over thinking this.

If you follow Fantasy Football religiously (most of us on here likely do), you have all the tools you need to produce a solid line-up in FanDuel.

Stick to your gut and dont get too cute. A flier here and there but nothing crazy.

I win about 60-70% of the 50/50's I enter. Nothing crazy, just fun. Consistency is key.

 

[Mackin]

I'm trying to find a similar balance in how I play my money. Like I said I did well this week, but played a complete variety.

It worked bc I had a good week with my lineups scoring 135-145ish.

Anyone have advice on how to manage bankroll? In the past I just put on the amount I'm willing to risk for the week and play it all, after a strong week I really want to turn this into a sustainable income, so I want to get better at managing my risk per week and leave a comfortable balance etc. in case of a bad week. I thought I saw a bankroll manager on Rotogrinders? Anyone have any experience?

 

[hagmania]

My opinion on 50/50s vs tourneys is changing. I'm not a grinder, ie I don't want to do this as any reliable source of income. I want to spend a little and try to win big every week. I like the lottery ticket.

To make money as a 50/50 grinder, the amount of work you need to set a consistent lineup (because you'll be using this lineup in large amounts across several games) can be undone by one bad read, injury, freak play, etc. It's tougher to accept your bad breaks, imo, because of how wrong it can all go in one Sunday.

But the EV!@!!@!@~ - I'll still probably dabble with H2H 50/50s here and there, but for the most part I'm trimming back to playing in one or two large-field events, I think.

Exact opposite for me. I do agree that entering 30-50 $5/$10 smaller lineups is just too much work, so I have dropped down to playing a few $50 & $109 50/50s over the last few weeks. I'll go in on Wednesday & set my lineup in a $5 50/50. Then I'll get up on Sunday morning, look at the rotogrinders & Dodds lineup info & fine tune whatever I need to & post my $50/$109 leagues. At 11:45 I go back in & look for any late add/drops. I don't spend a ton of time going back & fourth anymore, my initial lineup is usually 70% of what I run with unless an injury crops up..

Made about 30% on Fanduel this week & was 1/2 a point from being at 80%. Started playing DraftStreet this week & looks like I will make about 15% even with Locker in all my lineups.

All that said, it's good to see people willing to walk away from it if they are not winning. This type game is very addictive & is not worth dumping money into every week if you are not making a decent return.

Initially I wanted to turn my original $50 investment into $1000. I'm on course to do it so I'm good with the ups & downs.

Were I better at this whole fantasy football thing, I'd probably be of the same opinion as you.

 

[donkshow]

I think I enter too much of a variety in my lineups, instead of going with my 2-3 most ideal lineups and sticking with those.

 

[fbelange]

I go conservative and it works.

Luck
McCoy
Lacy
Demayrius
Marshall
T. Williams
Gates
? I forget ?
Seattle D

This won 75% of the 50/50 leagues this week. No fliers, all consistent producers.

As for money-management and bankroll advice, I have none. I suck at it. For example: I entered (4) $25 50/50's and won three of them. I also entered the 300K Sunday bomb for $25 and a few other random tourneys and another $25 H2H that were all losses. So, I break even almost every week. I need to stick to 50/50's

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

Lots of cognitive biases in here imo.

 

[hagmania]

I haven't lost money, if it's worth anything from my perspective. I just now see what they mean by grinder and I'm getting no enjoyment out of it.

 

[hagmania]

Lots of cognitive biases in here imo.

All too guilty here.

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

I win about 60-70% of the 50/50's I enter. Nothing crazy, just fun. Consistency is key.

The frustrating thing about winning 60% of the time is you might make enough money to buy lunch because the house is the one really making out here. I love the concept and am sticking to playing through the NFL season but not sure I'm going to stay on any of these daily sites with the ridiculous 10% rake they take.

 

[David Dodds]

It looks like I will break even on my heads up and 50/50s this week. Locker crushed a lot of teams I had unfortunately.

But on the tournament side, I finally broke through with some Epic hits. I don't have any Monday players on my tourney rosters (but nor do many that can catch me) so I am hoping I can hold a lot of these high spots:

http://50percentds.blogspot.com/2013/11/epic-tourney-week.html

 

[Jayrok]

I've found that going with your gut feeling is most always best. I had Sproles in all but 1 lineup this week because of great value and a gut feeling. My problem is I read the lineups posted in "on the daily" and I second guess. No more. I changed Brees to Rivers (and to Locker in some)in a few lineups based on FBG point projections and recommended lineups. Also changed J. Thomas to Gates in most lineups.

Using Dodds projections, Rivers, Bush and A. Brown were a few points better on paper than Brees, Sproles, and B. Marshall. But I decided to stick with the latter in most of my 50/50s and I'm glad I did. Brees usually goes way beyond his projections at home and especially in primetime. And I was hoping Sproles would have a bounce back game.

I had a good week but I agree with Ramblin Wreck that the house rake is ridiculous.

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

Am I nuts or is Shane Vereen missing from this coming weeks contests?

 

[msudaisy26]

I will have no more weeks where Eli Manning, Pryor or Jake Locker screw up my weekend. Stafford level and up for me for the rest of the season.... its too painful to get zip from the QB spot.

I tried that this weekend and it didn't work to well. At best I will lose 35 bucks at worst I will lose 115

 

[hines]

I win about 60-70% of the 50/50's I enter. Nothing crazy, just fun. Consistency is key.

The frustrating thing about winning 60% of the time is you might make enough money to buy lunch because the house is the one really making out here. I love the concept and am sticking to playing through the NFL season but not sure I'm going to stay on any of these daily sites with the ridiculous 10% rake they take.

this is a very interesting point. I am sure lots of people who play FanDuel do so because it is legal and PayPal friendly while sports gambling is a complicated adventure where you often get calls from your bank about suspicious deposits and have to hit a small window and cash a check with your fingers crossed to get your hard-earned money out.

I saw someone write about NFL betting vs FanDuel type leagues:

http://ttfsports.com/2013/10/22/one-week-fantasy-leagues-vs-nfl-betting/

if you don't click the short of it was in FanDuel you have to beat other people 55.5% of the time while in sports betting you have to beat the bookies 52.4% of the time. I think for me, it's still better odds to win at FanDuel (but that's probably influenced by my short-term results)

 

[msudaisy26]

I go conservative and it works.

Luck

McCoy

Lacy

Demayrius

Marshall

T. Williams

Gates

? I forget ?

Seattle D

This won 75% of the 50/50 leagues this week. No fliers, all consistent producers.

As for money-management and bankroll advice, I have none. I suck at it. For example: I entered (4) $25 50/50's and won three of them. I also entered the 300K Sunday bomb for $25 and a few other random tourneys and another $25 H2H that were all losses. So, I break even almost every week. I need to stick to 50/50's

That lineup isn't even possible in the 60k format and no one is leaving 2300 on the table when you could go from Luck to Peyton or Brees.

Luck =8700

McCoy = 8600

Lacy = 6800

Marshall = 8200

D. Thomas = 8300

Williams = 5700

Gates = 5600

kicker = 5000

Seattle = 5800

62,700

Please stop

 

[mcd]

I go conservative and it works.

Luck

McCoy

Lacy

Demayrius

Marshall

T. Williams

Gates

? I forget ?

Seattle D

This won 75% of the 50/50 leagues this week. No fliers, all consistent producers.

As for money-management and bankroll advice, I have none. I suck at it. For example: I entered (4) $25 50/50's and won three of them. I also entered the 300K Sunday bomb for $25 and a few other random tourneys and another $25 H2H that were all losses. So, I break even almost every week. I need to stick to 50/50's

That lineup isn't even possible in the 60k format and no one is leaving 2300 on the table when you could go from Luck to Peyton or Brees.

Luck =8700

McCoy = 8600

Lacy = 6800

Marshall = 8200

D. Thomas = 8300

Williams = 5700

Gates = 5600

kicker = 5000

Seattle = 5800

62,700

Please stop

No wonder it won 75%, he's figured out a way around the salary cap!!

 

[andrewd173]

I'm trying to find a similar balance in how I play my money. Like I said I did well this week, but played a complete variety.

It worked bc I had a good week with my lineups scoring 135-145ish.

Anyone have advice on how to manage bankroll? In the past I just put on the amount I'm willing to risk for the week and play it all, after a strong week I really want to turn this into a sustainable income, so I want to get better at managing my risk per week and leave a comfortable balance etc. in case of a bad week. I thought I saw a bankroll manager on Rotogrinders? Anyone have any experience?

A lot of your management will depend on your goals and the avgerage risk in your lineups. For exaple, if you're doing all tournaments that pay 1 in 10 winners, you might want to only wager 5-10% of your bankroll each week - math says on average random chance will pay you 1 in 10 times, then allow for some bad runs. If you do 50/50's, you might want to wager closer to 25 - 50% each week. From what I have read, with some diversification you don't want to exceed 50% in any one week, as crappy weeks happen, no matter what.

For straight up math, google the Kelly Criterion. I have a spreadsheet tracking my real win rates per contest type, then run the criterion formula, and take that as a percentage of half my bankroll - as a guide.

Further, I look at the matchups and the more good matchups I see, the less I will wagers as there could be many more 'winning' combinations of lineups to compete against. On the other hand last week when so many 'good' teams were on bye I went a bit more.

All in all, figure out your goals and preferred contest type or mix and apply some realistic projections of how many weeks can you afford to lose that amount compared to your realistc expected gains. I hope that made sense

 

[Mackin]

I'm trying to find a similar balance in how I play my money. Like I said I did well this week, but played a complete variety.

It worked bc I had a good week with my lineups scoring 135-145ish.

Anyone have advice on how to manage bankroll? In the past I just put on the amount I'm willing to risk for the week and play it all, after a strong week I really want to turn this into a sustainable income, so I want to get better at managing my risk per week and leave a comfortable balance etc. in case of a bad week. I thought I saw a bankroll manager on Rotogrinders? Anyone have any experience?

A lot of your management will depend on your goals and the avgerage risk in your lineups. For exaple, if you're doing all tournaments that pay 1 in 10 winners, you might want to only wager 5-10% of your bankroll each week - math says on average random chance will pay you 1 in 10 times, then allow for some bad runs. If you do 50/50's, you might want to wager closer to 25 - 50% each week. From what I have read, with some diversification you don't want to exceed 50% in any one week, as crappy weeks happen, no matter what.

For straight up math, google the Kelly Criterion. I have a spreadsheet tracking my real win rates per contest type, then run the criterion formula, and take that as a percentage of half my bankroll - as a guide.

Further, I look at the matchups and the more good matchups I see, the less I will wagers as there could be many more 'winning' combinations of lineups to compete against. On the other hand last week when so many 'good' teams were on bye I went a bit more.

All in all, figure out your goals and preferred contest type or mix and apply some realistic projections of how many weeks can you afford to lose that amount compared to your realistc expected gains. I hope that made sense

Thanks,

I just am trying to use the rotogrinders one, which tracks wins and percentages. But yes that is the balance I have been trying to understand and it makes sense! Now the key is self control. Which is in short supply...

 

[Bobcat10]

I'm trying to find a similar balance in how I play my money. Like I said I did well this week, but played a complete variety.

It worked bc I had a good week with my lineups scoring 135-145ish.

Anyone have advice on how to manage bankroll? In the past I just put on the amount I'm willing to risk for the week and play it all, after a strong week I really want to turn this into a sustainable income, so I want to get better at managing my risk per week and leave a comfortable balance etc. in case of a bad week. I thought I saw a bankroll manager on Rotogrinders? Anyone have any experience?

A lot of your management will depend on your goals and the avgerage risk in your lineups. For exaple, if you're doing all tournaments that pay 1 in 10 winners, you might want to only wager 5-10% of your bankroll each week - math says on average random chance will pay you 1 in 10 times, then allow for some bad runs. If you do 50/50's, you might want to wager closer to 25 - 50% each week. From what I have read, with some diversification you don't want to exceed 50% in any one week, as crappy weeks happen, no matter what.

For straight up math, google the Kelly Criterion. I have a spreadsheet tracking my real win rates per contest type, then run the criterion formula, and take that as a percentage of half my bankroll - as a guide.

Further, I look at the matchups and the more good matchups I see, the less I will wagers as there could be many more 'winning' combinations of lineups to compete against. On the other hand last week when so many 'good' teams were on bye I went a bit more.

All in all, figure out your goals and preferred contest type or mix and apply some realistic projections of how many weeks can you afford to lose that amount compared to your realistc expected gains. I hope that made sense

Thanks,

I just am trying to use the rotogrinders one, which tracks wins and percentages. But yes that is the balance I have been trying to understand and it makes sense! Now the key is self control. Which is in short supply...

Where is this on rotogrinders?

 

[Mackin]

http://rical-data.s3.amazonaws.com/FanDuel%20Bankroll%20Management%20Spreadsheet.xlsx

It doesn't actually do percentages, misspoke there but it does track most profitable contests etc.

I sort of like it because it helps me to track where I made my money and where I'm losing it. I really thought I had done much better in H2H than I had. I also found out I'm mostly making my $ in GPP.

Apparently I hit for power, not average.

 

[ajm27501]

http://rical-data.s3.amazonaws.com/FanDuel%20Bankroll%20Management%20Spreadsheet.xlsx

It doesn't actually do percentages, misspoke there but it does track most profitable contests etc.

I sort of like it because it helps me to track where I made my money and where I'm losing it. I really thought I had done much better in H2H than I had. I also found out I'm mostly making my $ in GPP.

Apparently I hit for power, not average.

This is pretty slick, thanks for posting. I only wish that it better broke down the 50/50 contests, double ups, etc. from the large 'lottery ticket' tourneys.

 

[Mackin]

http://rical-data.s3.amazonaws.com/FanDuel%20Bankroll%20Management%20Spreadsheet.xlsx

It doesn't actually do percentages, misspoke there but it does track most profitable contests etc.

I sort of like it because it helps me to track where I made my money and where I'm losing it. I really thought I had done much better in H2H than I had. I also found out I'm mostly making my $ in GPP.

Apparently I hit for power, not average.

This is pretty slick, thanks for posting. I only wish that it better broke down the 50/50 contests, double ups, etc. from the large 'lottery ticket' tourneys.

Probably pretty easy to tease out. Its just a bunch of countif statements.

You could rewrite new columns to break them down further into 50/50 vs. GPPs and get that in there.

That actually just alerted me to that fact thank you! I probably thought I was better at GPPs bc of the 50/50s.

 

[BassNBrew]

8 and 13 for the week in 50/50s. Looking to do better with the remaining 25 contests.

 

[andrewd173]

Projecting a 13% loss, which is greatv- felt a lot worse than it was. Turns out most of my losses were big tournies, which is usual for me, but I keep clicking the shiny buttons

 

[eoMMan]

Yup, barring a first carry injury from James tonight, I lost over $450. Didn't break 100 with any squad either. Ticking my tail and calling it quits. Good luck to the rest of you.

I'll miss hearing from you. Maybe next year?

Maybe. I've been a winning fantasy football player for over a decade, and I just got crushed two weekends running. Luckily it was mostly profit from earlier in the year. Maybe I only thrive against poor talent? May try the first 8 weeks only next year.

Lower your stakes. Do a ton of $5 and $10 tourneys. That's what I do.

 

[johnjohn]

It looks like I will break even on my heads up and 50/50s this week. Locker crushed a lot of teams I had unfortunately.

But on the tournament side, I finally broke through with some Epic hits. I don't have any Monday players on my tourney rosters (but nor do many that can catch me) so I am hoping I can hold a lot of these high spots:

http://50percentds.blogspot.com/2013/11/epic-tourney-week.html

Locker was bad luck, but nice job on the tournaments sir.

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

That Mike James injury (and being a foot short of a TD) may help salvage my weekend. Sucks to see him good hurt.

 

[andrewd173]

Ok, 4th guy i've lost on the first series in the last 2 weeks. What gives? Voodoo? Enemy action? This is just weird.

 

[donkshow]

This week I'm going cheap RB and elite WR.

QB Peyton Manning
DEN v KC
RB Andre Brown
NYG v GB
RB Ben Tate
HOU v OAK
WR T.Y. Hilton
IND @ TEN
WR Vincent Jackson
TB v ATL
WR Andre Johnson
HOU v OAK
TE Jordan Reed
WAS @ PHI
K David Akers
DET @ PIT
D Houston Texans
HOU v OAK

 

[donkshow]

Then I'm doing a bunch of "Cheap QB" lineups with the QB/WR/RB combo. Foles/Jackson/Cooper, McCown/Marshall/Forte, Keenum/Johnson/Tate

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

Brown and Tate will be popular RB picks this week like Lacy has been for a month now. Ray Rice is cheap as hell and has a great matchup but he's just not producing and hard to trust. Sproles at 5100 will be another popular pick.

I don't like any of the mid to upper-priced QBs. Foles feels to high at 8600. Maybe Cam at 8300. Might be a good week to buy Manning or Brees but both play good defenses.

 

[(HULK)]

That Mike James injury (and being a foot short of a TD) may help salvage my weekend. Sucks to see him good hurt.

I'm going to salvage $200 because of it. Less than half a point in the lead holding on to 5th place in a $109 50/50. Crazy. Only have 88 points!

 

[The Duff Man]

That Mike James injury (and being a foot short of a TD) may help salvage my weekend. Sucks to see him good hurt.

I'm going to salvage $200 because of it. Less than half a point in the lead holding on to 5th place in a $109 50/50. Crazy. Only have 88 points!

5/5 this week, went with fewer contests, higher dollar value each. 1 HTH, 1 Tournie, 3 50/50

Spent the least time on my lineup of the season.

 

[The Duff Man]

Add the TB starter into the mix now, and you wont spend much at RB if you dont want to.

This week could be all about picking the right stud WRs, I am going to focus my efforts analyzing that.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

In any case, I'll have to think about whether there's a useful way to present the top N FanDuel lineups (and I don't know what N should be) for each set of projections going forward. It wouldn't be too hard to just dump all the lineups into tables and let people scroll up and down. Any ideas from y'all are welcome. (The best way might be to have, for any given projector and salary cap, the optimal lineup on the left side of the screen, and then when you click a player in that lineup, the best lineup without him shows up on the right side of the screen.)

This is what I had in mind: link. Please excuse the complete absence of any formatting (along with the pre-MNF projections that are high on Mike James). This is not ready for prime time, but I wanted to throw it out there to get your feedback on whether something like this would be useful. If you click a player on the left, the best lineup without that player shows up on the right. (The salary caps and projectors are clickable as well.) How could I rearrange things to make it better (aside from better formatting)?

I also plan to do an interactive value chart based on each set of projections, but that's probably a couple weeks away. I'll probably sort the players by value according to a given set of projections, and then as you click on a player, it puts him into the lineup and keeps track of salary cap and points (while unclicking a player removes him). Or something like that.

 

[Steeler]

How could I rearrange things to make it better (aside from better formatting)?

I like the side by side layout for the rosters. It would be great if you could show multiple player options for each player on the initial roster on the left. So right now when a name is clicked on the left roster, his name is replaced on the right roster. What if; when you click a player in the left roster, a fly-out menu (or whatever implementation works best) appears and shows the next 5 (or whatever number) most valuable players at that position. This would allow for more flexibility in building the rosters within this layout.

I also plan to do an interactive value chart based on each set of projections, but that's probably a couple weeks away. I'll probably sort the players by value according to a given set of projections, and then as you click on a player, it puts him into the lineup and keeps track of salary cap and points (while unclicking a player removes him). Or something like that.

I like this idea too. Instead of 1 drop down containing all players, what does everyone think of having 6 (one for each position)? You should be able to filter these drop downs by Fan Duel time frame (1PM, Sun Only, etc). And then the list of players available can come from each set of projections, including the combined.

So maybe you pick which set of projections you want for the page (or maybe we could pick the set of projections by position -- I love brain storming ideas ), filter by Fan Duel time frame, and then you could pick from the 6 drop downs to build the roster.

This would be awesome!

 

[(HULK)]

That Mike James injury (and being a foot short of a TD) may help salvage my weekend. Sucks to see him good hurt.

I'm going to salvage $200 because of it. Less than half a point in the lead holding on to 5th place in a $109 50/50. Crazy. Only have 88 points!

5/5 this week, went with fewer contests, higher dollar value each. 1 HTH, 1 Tournie, 3 50/50

Spent the least time on my lineup of the season.

The only other win I had this week was a $50 50/50, where I won $45 dollars... tied for 5th with a guy who had the EXACT same lineup. That drove me crazy. I was up well over $500.

Now, I had planned on taking my $45 and walking. Since I hung on for a miracle last night, maybe I give this another week. I need to stop playing lineups I don't love though. I've been too focus on my competition and not enough focused on my own teams.

By the way, I want to hear what some 5th place last scores in the money were in lower cash level 50/50s. I've been doing the $109 cause it seems like they're worse (based upon my minimal experiences).

From this weekend for me, the lowest scores in the money in 50/50s:

$109: 101.82, 113.32, 104.2, 88.2

$50: 94.4

From the week before:

$109: 124.56, 119.06, 115.36

$50: 123.88

Also lost a 3 man league, finished 3rd with a score of 140.34. Winning score was 168.14

Maybe this past weekend was just weird and scores were way down?

What does it look like at the $5, $10, and $25 level lately?

 

[Pantherz]

That Mike James injury (and being a foot short of a TD) may help salvage my weekend. Sucks to see him good hurt.

I'm going to salvage $200 because of it. Less than half a point in the lead holding on to 5th place in a $109 50/50. Crazy. Only have 88 points!

5/5 this week, went with fewer contests, higher dollar value each. 1 HTH, 1 Tournie, 3 50/50

Spent the least time on my lineup of the season.

The only other win I had this week was a $50 50/50, where I won $45 dollars... tied for 5th with a guy who had the EXACT same lineup. That drove me crazy. I was up well over $500.

Now, I had planned on taking my $45 and walking. Since I hung on for a miracle last night, maybe I give this another week. I need to stop playing lineups I don't love though. I've been too focus on my competition and not enough focused on my own teams.

By the way, I want to hear what some 5th place last scores in the money were in lower cash level 50/50s. I've been doing the $109 cause it seems like they're worse (based upon my minimal experiences).

From this weekend for me, the lowest scores in the money in 50/50s:

$109: 101.82, 113.32, 104.2, 88.2

$50: 94.4

From the week before:

$109: 124.56, 119.06, 115.36

$50: 123.88

Also lost a 3 man league, finished 3rd with a score of 140.34. Winning score was 168.14

Maybe this past weekend was just weird and scores were way down?

What does it look like at the $5, $10, and $25 level lately?

I can give a small sample of mostly $5 H2H. "Cherry picked" opponents scores at 60K:

98.84

101.32

103.52

69.7

92.57

93.82

106.28

95

103.82

139.6

90.98

118.56

95.62

72.66

71.12

87.96

131.78

104.58

86.72

87.46

113.9

91.62

119.9

87.3

116.72

99 avg

 

[hagmania]

Case Keenum 6600

Jamaal Charles 8800

LeSean McCoy 8700

Andre Johnson 7500

Alshon Jeffery 6500

Reuben Randle 5200

Jordan Reed 5900

Ryan Succop 5500

NY Giants 5300

Preliminary lineup toying around with Keenum/AJ. Looking for a better WR option than Randle, also looking at Gio Bernard and or Andre Ellington in this lineup.

 

[themeanmachine]

That Mike James injury (and being a foot short of a TD) may help salvage my weekend. Sucks to see him good hurt.

I'm going to salvage $200 because of it. Less than half a point in the lead holding on to 5th place in a $109 50/50. Crazy. Only have 88 points!

5/5 this week, went with fewer contests, higher dollar value each. 1 HTH, 1 Tournie, 3 50/50

Spent the least time on my lineup of the season.

The only other win I had this week was a $50 50/50, where I won $45 dollars... tied for 5th with a guy who had the EXACT same lineup. That drove me crazy. I was up well over $500.

Now, I had planned on taking my $45 and walking. Since I hung on for a miracle last night, maybe I give this another week. I need to stop playing lineups I don't love though. I've been too focus on my competition and not enough focused on my own teams.

By the way, I want to hear what some 5th place last scores in the money were in lower cash level 50/50s. I've been doing the $109 cause it seems like they're worse (based upon my minimal experiences).

From this weekend for me, the lowest scores in the money in 50/50s:

$109: 101.82, 113.32, 104.2, 88.2

$50: 94.4

From the week before:

$109: 124.56, 119.06, 115.36

$50: 123.88

Also lost a 3 man league, finished 3rd with a score of 140.34. Winning score was 168.14

Maybe this past weekend was just weird and scores were way down?

What does it look like at the $5, $10, and $25 level lately?

My 50/50s looked like this:

Standard $60k:

$5 - 96.38

$10 - 96.2

$25 - 102.92

Expert $55k:

$5 - 88.8

$10 - 87.7

$25 - 88.94

 

[fbelange]

I go conservative and it works.

Luck

McCoy

Lacy

Demayrius

Marshall

T. Williams

Gates

? I forget ?

Seattle D

This won 75% of the 50/50 leagues this week. No fliers, all consistent producers.

As for money-management and bankroll advice, I have none. I suck at it. For example: I entered (4) $25 50/50's and won three of them. I also entered the 300K Sunday bomb for $25 and a few other random tourneys and another $25 H2H that were all losses. So, I break even almost every week. I need to stick to 50/50's

That lineup isn't even possible in the 60k format and no one is leaving 2300 on the table when you could go from Luck to Peyton or Brees.

Luck =8700

McCoy = 8600

Lacy = 6800

Marshall = 8200

D. Thomas = 8300

Williams = 5700

Gates = 5600

kicker = 5000

Seattle = 5800

62,700

Please stop

No wonder it won 75%, he's figured out a way around the salary cap!!

Whoops you guys caught me. Im often day dremaing of Brandon Marshall... It was actually Rueben Randle.

Also, my kicker was Prater.

 

[fbelange]

my money-league WR's are Randle, Gordon, Marshall, and Demaryius. So naturally at least 1...sometimes 2 of them are awlays in my FanDuel lin-up. It makes Sundays easier to keep track of who I'm really rooting for.

 

[fbelange]

Lowest in-the-money score for the $25 50/50's I was in this week was 108.19

 

[andrewd173]

In any case, I'll have to think about whether there's a useful way to present the top N FanDuel lineups (and I don't know what N should be) for each set of projections going forward. It wouldn't be too hard to just dump all the lineups into tables and let people scroll up and down. Any ideas from y'all are welcome. (The best way might be to have, for any given projector and salary cap, the optimal lineup on the left side of the screen, and then when you click a player in that lineup, the best lineup without him shows up on the right side of the screen.)

This is what I had in mind: link. Please excuse the complete absence of any formatting (along with the pre-MNF projections that are high on Mike James). This is not ready for prime time, but I wanted to throw it out there to get your feedback on whether something like this would be useful. If you click a player on the left, the best lineup without that player shows up on the right. (The salary caps and projectors are clickable as well.) How could I rearrange things to make it better (aside from better formatting)?

I also plan to do an interactive value chart based on each set of projections, but that's probably a couple weeks away. I'll probably sort the players by value according to a given set of projections, and then as you click on a player, it puts him into the lineup and keeps track of salary cap and points (while unclicking a player removes him). Or something like that.

Very quick and easy to work a guy in and out, appreciate that! However, as another pointed out, it would be nice to somehow get perhaps a choice of the next X players, as were otherwise limited to just the top and second level combinations, it appears.

Also love the reason for Burleson's injury - pizza!