Covering The Bases: Saturday, June 9th

by Justin Van Zuiden (stlcardinals84) Last Updated 2018-06-09 20:20:56 Premium Content Part of the product SimLabs+

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Saturday, June 9th

Greetings, MLB DFS fanatics! I’m writing this article late on Friday night/early on Saturday morning, and this slate has me all sorts of confounded. We usually have a split slate on Saturdays, but we usually don’t have anything like this. Here’s how the slate lines up: there are 15 total games, with 11 of those being early games and just four being late games. That’s an inherent problem, because the sites mess with their slates to no end when there are afternoon games. As usual, that is true today. The sites have offerings as follows:

FanDuel = 5 game slate starting with the very early game at 12 PM Eastern

DraftKings = 10 game slate that excludes the game at 12 PM Eastern but includes all the others

FantasyDraft = 8 game slate that excludes the games at 12 PM and 1 PM Eastern

So… I have no idea how to break this down. All 11 early games are accounted for on at least one site, and FanDuel might offer a secondary early slate that includes the 4 PM Eastern starts (though that slate is not showing as of the time I am writing this). Because of all these moving parts, I’m just going to list my favorite options from all the games, and I’ll do my best to notate sites and pricing where possible. If you are building lineups using our LineupHQ tool, you will notice that my core is MUCH different for FD compared to DK/FDRAFT because of the way the slates are set up. Let’s get to work!