Monday night brought us a 10 game MLB DFS slate featuring the 250K Relay Throw on DraftKings as the main large field GPP with 50K up top.
Let’s jump in and examine the single bullet entered by “ddag1” that took down first place!
What’s going on everybody? We’re back from a 3 day hiatus to provide some insight on the winning lineup on DraftKings last night. The structure of the Relay Throw last night was more advantageous with a total prize pool of 250K with 20% to first, which is a little more balanced than when we see the 175k or 150k prize pools with 50K up top. We’ve seen our share of wild lineups ship tournaments throughout this review series and this one is right up there. “ddag1” had Julio Rodriguez ($5,400, 0 fpts) from the mariners on his team who was not actually in the mariners lineup. He did make an appearance as a pinch hitter, but could only muster a strikeout. Interesting strategy, going to assume this was purely based off of him setting his one lineup for the contest earlier in the day and not monitoring when lineups came out. Nonetheless, we’ve seen goose eggs from players in winning lineups before but usually they are in the lineup.
This potentially worked in his favor as some spotty weather surrounding the Cubs game could have scared him off of rostering Yu Darvish ( 15.9% owned, 30.4 fpts) who put up the top performance on the slate at Pitcher, rewarding those who didn’t let the tornado warnings surrounding Wrigley around the time of first pitch scare them off. At the other pitching slot, Alex Manoah (32.7% owned, 29.7 fpts) was lights out giving up one hit in his six innings of work, while striking out 7.
In terms of bats this is pretty much just a collection of batters with virtually no correlation outside of the Blue Jays 2 man of Bo Bichette (15.1% owned, 8 fpts) and Vladmir Guerrero (12.6% owned, 26 fpts). Another thing that stands out about the lineup is just how the low priced one offs really came through. Brendan Donovan (10% owned, 19 fpts), Exequiel Duran (6.2% owned, 17 fpts), and Lane Thomas (6.4% owned, 23 fpts) all priced at 3k or less and had pretty big days relative to their price point, combing for 59 fantasy points. When you nail the top two scoring pitchers you’re already in a decent position to cash if you can get average production from your hitters, let alone big performances from your lower priced bats.
The winning lineup:
“ddag1” rode the slate’s top 2 scoring pitchers and good performances from his one offs to ship first!
Salary Used: $50,000 | Pitcher Ownership: 48.6%
Lineup Construction | Place in the Batting Order
2 man: 2-3
1 offs: 1-2-6-7-9-NA
Key Takeaway: Lineups like these remind us that at the end of the day we can correlate, study, and stack the most optimal way possible but this is still a random and volatile game and there will be “lotto ticket” lineups like this that do win once in a blue moon. That’s the beauty of daily fantasy sports. Obviously nobody recommends ever rostering somebody who isn’t in the starting lineup or a hodge podge of hitters with minimal correlation but there is a range of outcomes where it can win.
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