Sprizouse Goes for 500 Wins On DraftStreet in August

Every month on Draftstreet I feel as though I’ve improved. I’ve gone from only knowing the superstars baseball has to offer to keeping up with essentially every player on every roster. I know team’s pitching rotations, bullpen duties, and overall chance of success on a given day. I’ve learned to truly study the game, and what stats matter. Well, August is here, which means Summer is at it’s hottest point. There isn’t a better time than now to heat things up a notch with my daily fantasy grind.

In July, I had one goal for the month aside from the usual “just profit”; I wanted to make the top 20 leader-board and get into the first ever $250 top of the monthly leader-board free-roll. With a week to go, I was on the bubble, just outside of the top 20. With daily fantasy, you never know how one individual week would go. I was a little nervous. As it turns out, I went on a mini-heater playing a lot of games every day and easily pushed my way through up to 15th overall.

During that week I began to wonder how many wins I could get in a month, while still maintaining a profit by not falling victim to the juice. Notorious (#29), who I see as very similar to me in both buy-ins and consistency had a big month in July putting 276 wins. Fredotz, who everyone knows based on his #1 status on the leader-board every month and playing every game available to him when he’s own, also had a big month with 294 Wins. I had 221 wins, and after that there was no one over 200 wins. It takes grinding a lot of games to put together wins and profit. Now Frogman (#18) and HixvilleHunk (#3) both play high stakes and could care less how many wins they have or get, as long as they’re making the big bucks. I met both of my goals for the month fairly easily, and therefore, last night I was feeling good. Anyhow, it’s a new month, and time to set my August goals!

August Goals:

1) Profit

2) Make the Leaderboard Freeroll

3) 500 wins

August is the last month that I won’t have school to balance with daily fantasy. School starts the last week of August, so to hit my goal I’m going to need to be on my way by August 23rd or so; only needing a reasonable amount of wins over the last week. Now this goal kind of seems dumb, I’ll admit, but how cool is it gonna be to say I’m a member of the 500 club? I figure I can’t afford to overtake ‘dotz in terms of total prize leader-board, I may as well win something I can control. To my knowledge, no one has been close to 500 wins thus far at Draftstreet. If they have, then post it or let’s get to the bottom of this. While anyone with a crap load of cash could technically get 500 wins, anyone who attempts it with the number one goal of profit faces quite the challenge.

I’ll be playing almost all of my games in the five to twenty-two dollar buy-in levels with the majority of those coming from the $5 level. Most of my games will be head-to-heads which I find to be the easiest to return a steady profit in, as well as being the easiest to get wins, but I’ll also be playing a few multiple person tournaments. I’ll be snake drafting whenever I feel the urge, and will be in every nightly charity game I can get in. Speaking of which, let’s dive into the latest and greatest tournament Draftstreet offers: The Nightly Charity Game.

The Nightly Charity Game has become one of my favorite nightly traditions. Once the games have completed, and before I start working on my Cap teams for the next day, I, and 5 other lucky donors create a private 6-man snake and go at it. None of us have done much in the way or research. It’s a $22 free-for all, may the luckiest man win. To this point, my team is very consistent in finishing 6th. I’d have it no other way in a charity game. I have one win in the game, but from my results, it’s very obvious I have a go big or go home strategy that has rarely worked to this point. Winning isn’t the point though. I look at it as my way of buying good karma for the next day. I donate to the nightly charity game to gain a sense of good will and understanding the next days action, in real live snake-draft action. It lets me see the field of players, who people like at first glance, and some potential match-ups that I can hopefully exploit in my cap games before building a salary cap team. Perhaps I’m ignoring the most important reason why The Nightly Charity Game is the best thing going on Draftstreet. It’s a WHOLE LOT OF FUN! It has nothing to do with real-life charity, but it’s an event where everyone can get together and chat and have fun and maybe even garner some bragging rights for the next night’s game. If you have the chance, I highly recommend getting into The Nightly Charity game at least at some point with me over the next month!

So, to sum up my first blog of August: I have my work cut out for me. I’ll be blogging my journey for 500 Wins and will do my best to keep an excel spreadsheet on the madness. It should be insane if the first night shows any indication. I believe I entered 78 games on the first night, 79 with the nightly charity game, and look to have gotten a crazy good start to the month. There were a lot of low scoring teams tonight, which helped big time. I’m not going to play anywhere close to that number on a regular day this month but I wanted to get things started with a BANG! Wish me luck on my roller coaster and let’s make (what I hope is) Draftstreet history!!!

Cheers to 500,

-Sprizouse