Rise & Grind: August 1st, 2014

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Welcome to the RotoGrinders Rise & Grind. Start your day off on the right foot with yesterday’s happenings and take a peek at the the upcoming day in the world of DFS.

In Case You Missed It

 

Trade Deadline

 

You can check out the full RotoGrinders review of FantasyAces Here

 

Thursdays 5 longest DONGS

Hitter Team Length
Jason Kipnis CLE 412ft
Neil Walker PIT 412ft
Jon Singleton HOU 403ft
Torii Hunter DET 396ft
Yasiel Puig LAD 389ft

 

 

 

Today’s MLB

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Today’s GPPs

Here’s a quick snapshot of some of the biggest games available today.

FanDuel

TOURNAMENT BUY IN PRIZE POOL
$200k Fri MLB SUPER Monster $200 $200,000
$35K Fri MLB Strikeout $25 $35,000
$18K Fri MLB Squeeze $2 $18,000
$12.5k Fri High Roller Satellite $1065 $12,500
$12K Fri MLB Line Drive $10 $12,000
$3k Fri MLB Rally $3000 $3,000

DraftKings

TOURNAMENT BUY IN PRIZE POOL
MLB $100K Perfect Game $200 $100,000
MLB $40K Payoff Pitch $27 $40,000
MLB $10K Silver Slugger $530 $10,000
MLB $7.5K High Heat $109 $7,500
MLB $17K Moon Shot $2 $17,000
MLB $18K Check Swing $12 $18,000
MLB $6K Flare $5 $6,000

DraftDay

TOURNAMENT BUY IN PRIZE POOL
MLB $2.5k Field of Dreams $109 $2,500
MLB $1.5k Knucleball $15 $1,500
MLB $1k Wiz Walkoff $3.30 $1000
MLB $160 Big League Blast Qualifier $160 $2,120
MLB $300 R.A Pickey (Pickem) $5.50 $300
MLB $1k $109 Double Play $109 $1000

FantasyAces

TOURNAMENT BUY IN Format
MLB $550 Frozen Rope $11 Classic
MLB Top 5 Guarantee $5.50 Salary Pro
MLB 50/50 Guarantee $11 Classic
MLB 50/50 Guarantee $22 Classic
MLB Salary Pro 50/50 $11 Salary Pro
MLB $109 Winner Take all $109 Classic

 


On the Grinders Schedule

Daily Articles
# 1 ) MLB Grind Down Notorious breaks down all the matchups in tonight’s action on the diamond in one quick, easy to read location.
# 2 ) MLB Daily Plays Stlcardinals84 gives you all the plays you’ll need for tonight’s schedule.
# 3 ) Daily Pitcher Breakdown Psporer digs deep into the advanced pitching stats to find you the arms with the best matchups tonight.
# 4 ) Daily Hitter Breakdown Varcass shows you all the splits and points out the bats in the best situations for tonight’s slate.
# 5 ) Head-to-Head vs. GPP Pepsi7 separates the high floor players from the high ceiling guys to help you construct your rosters for every game type.
Grinders Live Schedule
TIME SHOW SPONSOR
3:30 PM The Afternoon Grind Fight that early afternoon boredom with expert baseball analysis from BritDevine and BoggsLite.
4:30 PM Daily Fantasy Happy Hour FantasyAces Does your local happy hour have awesome baseball analysis? Didn’t think so. Join us this afternoon and let Dean and DraftCheat serve you up some knowledge.
5:30 PM Grinders Live DraftKings CSUram and StlCards will take you right up to first pitch with our flagship Grinders Live show.

Is there something else you’d like to see in this column? Questions or comments? Leave them below and we’d be happy to consider them. See you tomorrow!

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