In this article we’ll take a deeper dive into the winning lineup from Thursday night’s $222,222 Relay Throw with 50K to first!
Happy Friday everybody! Before we head into the “un-official” start to the summer with the 3 day memorial weekend we’ll take a look at Thursday night’s MLB DFS large field winning lineup shipped by “4Japan.”
Thursday nights 9 gamer was highlighted by the Red Sox and Dodgers putting up 16 and 14 runs respectively. 5 and 4 man Boston stacks were littered at the top of the leaderboard accompanied by Dodgers in a variety of 3 mans, 2 mans, and one offs.
From a pitching standpoint the top owned pitchers were the best performers for the most part. Shohei Ohtani was the highest owned pitcher just under 42% and came through with a decent game considering his popularity and salary with the 5th most fantasy points at the pitcher slot. If you opted to Fade Ohtani and roster the next most owned pitchers you were rewarded with Frankie Montas and Aaron Nola both at just over 30% ownership putting up the highest pitching scores on the slate with 30+ point outings. The low owned gem to have rostered at the pitcher position was $7,600 Devin Smeltzer who put up 25.95 fpts at 2% ownership.
The winning Lineup:
“4Japan” mixed in some lower owned pieces of the Red Sox in his stack to ship 1st.
Salary Used: $49,500 | Pitcher Ownership: 73.1%
Lineup Construction | Place in the Batting Order
5 man: 1-5-6-7-9
2 man: 2-8
1 off: 5
Getting different with his Red Sox stack you can see above the lineup utilized the back half of the order minus the 8 hitter and incorporated the wrap around stack with Enrique Hernandez at the leadoff spot. Nailing the 2 Dodger one offs paired with the Red Sox stack was obviously a huge factor in getting to the top at GPPs. Freddie Freeman and Chris Taylor went off for a combined 67 fantasy points! That would be pretty good production out of your main stack let alone your 2 man secondary stack. At pitcher surprisingly he didn’t need the top scoring pitcher in Aaron Nola and his 37.15 fpts due to having the Dodger 2 man combo.
Key Takeaway: Incorporating backend pieces into your stack is a good way to get leverage on the field and others rostering that same team in a stack. Skipping batters and wrap-around stacks still allow you to get exposure to the popular teams with implied run totals at less ownership than a standard 1 through 4 or 1 through 5 stack.
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Last night 4 of the 5 team stacks mentioned in the tweet scored at least 7 runs!
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