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Cancelled. In general, I don't love him for dfs because I don't trust the K's to be there. The Jays are also desperately keeping away from RH heavy lineups (Yankees in particular).

I think I hate my lineup tonight but I scrambled with the Jays out. Basically the SPs I like with a platter of Mets/Phillies/Rockies :shrug:  

Keuchel/Snell/Ianetta/Desmond/Cabrera/Chapman/Kingery/Conforto/Herrera/Hoskins
That's a bummer.  I REALLY liked my LU with Toronto playing. 

 
I didn't love what I was coming up with on DK, so instead of a cash game, I just entered the 25cent 470 person contest 4x.  I kept DeGrom and 4bats the same, but rotated SP2s and other bats to mix it up.

FD I liked more, so I tried a couple 5man contests and a 25cent entry for:  DeGrom Freeman K.Hernandez C.Vill Crawford Hoskins Delmonico Duvall Olson

 
I feel like the people in my 5man contests are using the same LU generator or something.  :tinfoilhat:  

Very rarely see people with a C in a FD lineup, but a high % have a combo of most of:  DeGrom, Ianetta, Shaw, Villar, Conforto, Duvall, Santana.  

ETA:  ..and about 70% T.Story combined in the 2 contests.  

 
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On DK did a 3man pick em using 3 Yanks,2 Phil's and polanco--currently up by 30.

FD $1 gpp

Snell Santana Lowrie Shaw Hechavaria Herrera Hoskins Davis Joyce

Originally had Jay's in for Phil's and Shaw.

 
I think I hate my lineup tonight but I scrambled with the Jays out. Basically the SPs I like with a platter of Mets/Phillies/Rockies :shrug:  

Keuchel/Snell/Ianetta/Desmond/Cabrera/Chapman/Kingery/Conforto/Herrera/Hoskins
I did a 20 person 50/50 tonight, Degrom is 85% owned, Snell 80%. I'm 14th with those two tearing it up and my Keuchel to come, so if he's solid, I'm fine there. I have the same lineup in a $3 GPP, haven't watched lineups there, so we'll see.

 
I did a 20 person 50/50 tonight, Degrom is 85% owned, Snell 80%. I'm 14th with those two tearing it up and my Keuchel to come, so if he's solid, I'm fine there. I have the same lineup in a $3 GPP, haven't watched lineups there, so we'll see.
Nice!  

Tonight was a whiff here so far.  Nothing showed up to put me on any Rockies, TB, or Cincy bats and  Snell didn't pop when I looked at his pitches on the Plate IQ.   Again, I am probably just overthinking it and should just instantly be looking at any SP vs. Tex, W.Sox, SD, and a couple other teams that whiff a ton.  

Just saw that Christian V. hit a HR.  So now I am within 30pts of my 5man leaders with they having just about everybody done and me having 4 guys in these late games.  :popcorn:

 
Crushed the DK 3man pick em winning by 39 for my 5th straight pick em win.

On FD scored 146+ and missed cashline by 13. Should have stuck to my original plan of stacking TB although the Oak bats all scored 12+. Interesting tidbit- the winner of the 1k top prize had players from 9 different teams which I dont think I've seen before.

 
Crushed the DK 3man pick em winning by 39 for my 5th straight pick em win.

On FD scored 146+ and missed cashline by 13. Should have stuck to my original plan of stacking TB although the Oak bats all scored 12+. Interesting tidbit- the winner of the 1k top prize had players from 9 different teams which I dont think I've seen before.
Nice! I still don't think to do the 3mans with the weird things like the arcades and pick 'ems.  Might have to look at those too.  

I had one gpp break me even on DK.  I used the two SPs from the W.Sox/Oak game together a bit, and in one the bats also hit.  

FD was a bust, but it was close.  Got to about 155 and within a bit hit from taking my 5mans, but couldn't pull it off.  

 
i really hate the slate offerings so far this year. it seems like every team is playing everyday so its always a 10-12 game main slate until the weather knocks a game or 2 off. I prefer a 6-8 game slate. early/late only have been 2-4 games and then had games ppd. Was hoping to use Tor bats today but neither game is on any slate?-wtf? Tigers and Cle are starting at like 630 now and either have to play all day or 2 game slate to use them. I think thats why Ive been playing the pick ems so much.

 
Did this for my main DK  2x/3man contest LU tonight:

Kluber/Chirinos Meso Cron Carpenter JRam Correa KDavis Harper Springer

 
The Chirinos experiment failed so hopefully Corbin and my bats come thru. Cubs are all under 8% so they could help if they do something.

 
Raging weasel said:
i really hate the slate offerings so far this year. it seems like every team is playing everyday so its always a 10-12 game main slate until the weather knocks a game or 2 off. I prefer a 6-8 game slate. early/late only have been 2-4 games and then had games ppd. Was hoping to use Tor bats today but neither game is on any slate?-wtf? Tigers and Cle are starting at like 630 now and either have to play all day or 2 game slate to use them. I think thats why Ive been playing the pick ems so much.
I think we had this discussion a bit last year too, and I am the opposite.  I love gpps on big slates like this because it spreads out ownership and you get most of what you want at <10%.  I don't think I had many players at all in my lineups that were over 10%.  Not that a ton hit, but still the idea is there.  I just find it frustrating when you are in a small slate gpp and just about everything you have is 50-60% owned.  

 
Raging weasel said:
The Chirinos experiment failed so hopefully Corbin and my bats come thru. Cubs are all under 8% so they could help if they do something.
Yeah, that was a bit of a bust.  I was crabby about it, but then I thought to myself that he only cost what a high end bat does, and I get 0s from them all the time, so I am ahead there.  

My main DK LU is doing alright, but I think a lot of the people were saving their SPs for the night games.  Chirinos was a bit lower owned than I expected.  I still have a couple Houston bats and K.Davis, so I hope I can stay above the lines.  

 
Raging weasel said:
Sure am

Harper Hoskins Schwarber Cespedes Frazier Cabrera

DK gpp

Corbin Chirinos Ramos Cron Altuve Bryant Correa Springer Schwarber Harper 

Good luck
Squeaked out a 2 pt win in the 3man but nothing in gpp or 2 .25 gpps.

on FD played a late 3man with a 8,9,1,2 oak stack with Corcin that scored 159.6 that won by 30+

total for day- $6.50 in $10.80 out.

 
Squeaked out a 2 pt win in the 3man but nothing in gpp or 2 .25 gpps.

on FD played a late 3man with a 8,9,1,2 oak stack with Corcin that scored 159.6 that won by 30+

total for day- $6.50 in $10.80 out.
Another nice day for you! 

Across the sites, I think I was + a couple bucks too.   I am really leaking on FD, so I think I need to cool off on that site.  My Pick 'em scored 75 so that won my 3man and made a couple bucks in the 25cent gpp too.  My main LUs were junk with Chirinos and the high SP scores on the night side.  Seemed like Kluber + Wood or Corbin was pretty popular.  

I won another 6man draft on Draft for $11, so I am getting a tad better at those.  Usually the nights I have done something, I am able to build a stack.  Last night I had a 3 Houston guys, McCullers, and Pham.   The other times I have won I've had a 3 man stack as well.  I still wouldn't bother with the site because there is even more luck IMO since you are depending on your order in the draft and the whim of the other drafters.  

 
Well, my son is going to the Brewer game with his school and a ton of other schools from around the state today.  Told him I would fire up some Brewers stacks. - Yelich is back and Braun gets the day off, so they are going pretty leftie heavy.   Going with Thames-Yelich-Shaw at least and seeing what I can do from there.  

Too bad the SP options are junk on FD, so I will probably try DK.  Put in $1 or so of Brewer stacks in the 25cent gpp.  At least then the other 2 games are in there so Triggs, Happ, Kennedy are options at SP.  

 
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At least then the other 2 games are in there so Triggs, Happ, Kennedy are options at SP.  
I guess I'm rolling with Triggs and Happ for the early games, I don't really feel great about it but, Hamels doesn't feel worth paying up for. I really don't like Kennedy/Gasuman/Boyd. Any thoughts on Zach Davies with the Brewers?

I didn't end up getting a lineup in yesterday and just watched most of the Jays doubleheader without any additional betting interest, I was looking at Chrinos/Ohtani/McCullers as GPP options and Corbin for cash games, so I likely would have ended up close to breaking even anyway.

 
I guess I'm rolling with Triggs and Happ for the early games, I don't really feel great about it but, Hamels doesn't feel worth paying up for. I really don't like Kennedy/Gasuman/Boyd. Any thoughts on Zach Davies with the Brewers?

I didn't end up getting a lineup in yesterday and just watched most of the Jays doubleheader without any additional betting interest, I was looking at Chrinos/Ohtani/McCullers as GPP options and Corbin for cash games, so I likely would have ended up close to breaking even anyway.
I looked at Davies.  I think I threw him in one of the LUs for something different, but didn't love it.  

Looked at his Plate IQ stuff, and he has a low swinging K rate, low K%.  Then the 2 pitches he gets his highest whiff % on, it didn't look like Cincy whiffs on and a couple of them actually have decent #s vs those pitches.   :shrug:   None of the options look amazing - Triggs and Happ probably the safest bets like you said.  Actually looking at Gausman's stats and looking at Det's whiff % vs. his pitches put me on him a tad more.  

 
I feel like Gausman starts either seem him pitch into the 8th with 7-8K's or get knocked out after 4, his game log from last year backs that up, just too much variance but probably a decent GPP bet.
For sure just in gpps.   I just tend to force myself to look elsewhere on these smaller slates.  Feels like at first glance its play Triggs/Happ and start Oak, Toronto, Milw-Lefties.   If most of my bats and ideas are going along with that, I will take a stab at a different SP or two.  I think of my 6 LUs,  at least one if not both of Triggs/Happ are in all of them, but then I sprinkled in Gausman in a couple,  Davies in one, Kennedy in one.  

 
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For sure just in gpps.   I just tend to force myself to look elsewhere on these smaller slates.  Feels like at first glance its play Triggs/Happ and start Oak, Toronto, Milw-Lefties.   If most of my bats and ideas are going along with that.


I'm going with a bunch of Oak/Bal/Mil/Tex spread over a couple lineups.

 
I'm going with a bunch of Oak/Bal/Mil/Tex spread over a couple lineups.
Forgot about Balt.  Most of my bats are from those 1st 3 teams with a sprinkling of Tex and Toront.  I figured if we all are doing this it will be popular, so I tried for what I thought would be low % guys like Valencia, D.rob(texas),  lower order Milw guys like Villar/Perez, etc.  

 
Valencia, Beltre, Choo, Mazara all under 10% owned for me. Machado 60.9% with 27k teams  :lmao:  he's in both my lineups too.
Nice!  Love getting the low % guys in there.  Sometimes it's tricky to get that in smaller slate gpps.   Cinci stack is pretty low owned, and H.Perez and Arcia are also <5% for me.  

 
Lost in FD early only 3man as I went with Gausman+Balt+mil+Col  and he went with Faria+Pitt+Det+Col

FD $2 gpp

cole zimmerman difo valbuena escobar williams jdmart herrera inciarte

DK

$1 SE gpp

cole ray suzuki freeman cabrera descalso crawford herrera peralta tucker

And trying a $2  10x booster pickem tonight

trout freeman upton albies kingery peralta

 
trout freeman upton albies kingery peralta
I REALLY don't like that last row of batters (but I still tried)

I did two 25cent gpps trying a couple mini-stacks I liked:

Hoskins JDMart H.Ram C.Hern Kingery Devers

Trout  Freeman Upton Albies Cano C.Vill

We have most of the same bats at least. 

 
Success on the night side with DK since I mostly went with Boston and Dodgers in my standard LUs.  

FD I had a couple 25 cent entries that had 0 shot because I had the bright idea of targeting Philly and Cleveland bats. 

DK Pick 'em went well again.  I like this a lot more than the arcade mode and a ton more than the 1 game showdown for a different format on the sites.   I like that you can actually pick decent hitters instead of those small games with SP's salaries still jacked up so you can't get any decent batters in the contest.  

 
Going to throw in a 25cent gpp with Morton/Weaver.   My lower owned idea is a Balt 8-9-1-2-3 stack:

Morton/Weaver - Santander Cisco Mancini Alvarez Machado.  That will give 4.2K/player left for 1st, 2nd, and an OF.  

 
Well, on the complete wrong side of everything today.  I was on StL, Balt, Weaver and had very little Det and 0 Cubs.  

Should I post what I am doing tonight so you guys can avoid those plays? ;)

 

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