In this article we’ll take a look at the Memorial Day evening 200K Relay Throw on DraftKings with 50K to first.
Welcome back from the long weekend everybody, summer is officially here! Today we will go over the lineup that shipped last night’s Relay Throw on DraftKings.
While most of us were stuffing our faces with hot dogs and hamburgers over the holiday weekend there was money up for grabs across the MLB DFS landscape. Yesterday brought two split slates with 6 games. We are going to focus in on the evening slate that had the bigger prize pool. “dereklm” captured first place on the back of the Mets and their 13 runs against the Nationals via a 5 man stack.
At Pitcher being a six game slate options were sparse. Walker Buehler (14.7 fpts, 65% ownership) had the highest fantasy point projection by 10+ according to most projection systems but had an average performance compared to the options you could roster. The necessary gem of the bunch was Brewer hurler Aaron Ashby who had a monster 12 strikeouts, keeping the Cubs at bay in the second game of the double header. Ashby outscored the optimal SP2 on the slate by 14+ and provided great leverage on the smaller slate at 16% owned.
For the bats, having the the Duo of Nick Plummer and Starling Marte and their 60 fantasy points was beneficial in negating the 0 from Jeff McNeil in the Mets stack. Obviously having absolute monster performances from 2 of the 3 one offs, to go along with the Mets stack sure helped. Ryan Mountcastle and his 4 hits and 4 runs scored paired with sub 3% owned Mitch Garver going off for 26 fantasy points was key to helping the lineup get to the top.
The Winning Lineup:
“dereklm” survived a 0 from Jeff McNeil and still managed to take down first in the Relay Throw.
Salary Used: $49,700| Pitcher Ownership: 80.9%
Lineup Construction | Place in the Batting Order
5 man: 2-3-5-7-8
1 offs: 3-3-6
Key Takeaway: I’m gonna take a stand here and not just give you some token advice, fade the 50% owned pitcher. Look, I want to preface this with saying part of the point of this series is to learn and get better at DFS throughout the summer. We’re only a week in and the sample size is small. I know every slate is different and things will vary between slates. With that being said if you are playing every day or close to it, fading these 50%-60% pitchers over time will pay off and it has for the winners we’ve examined together.
I’ll repeat what I’ve been harping on, baseball is volatile and random. I repeat, baseball is volatile and random. Straying from the crowd by fading the pitcher your favorite tout is pumping or is the lead image on the article you read before you made your lineup is a great way to not only get leverage on the field but in a lot of cases open up more salary for low owned, higher priced bats when the high owned pitcher is 9-10K+.
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