High Stakes Scene: DS Heavy Hitters Championship: Game 2
Editor’s Note: The “High Stakes Scene” is a recurring series giving you an in-depth look into the highest stakes games in the Daily Fantasy world. Our first “High Stakes Scene” featured top-ranked STLCardinals84 providing in-depth analysis into his head-to-head matches vs. BrettFavre444. From there we’ve expanded to cover more of Daily Fantasy’s best across the industry. Full details on the current $100,000 Heavy Hitters Bracket match can be read here. We hope you enjoy the coverage.
What’s up Grinders, we are happy to bring you another edition of the High Stakes Scenes. In this edition, we will be covering DraftStreet’s $100,000 Heavy Hitter Series. This is a 16-man bracket with some of the biggest names in the industry competing. We are down to the final 2 entrants as both BirdWings and vegetable_lasagna outlasted their opponents to make it to the Championship. This series is a best of 7 and we will cover each game as the series moves on.
BirdWings vs. vegetable_lasagna
Game 2: vegetable_lasagna 66 – BirdWings 60
Thoughts on Game 2:
Vegetable_Lasagna loaded up on the COL/ATL game, and it’s not a typical strategy we see for head to head games. It paid off for him tonight, and it had a lot to do with Dickerson and Rutledge. Rutledge has hit the ball well this season when he’s had the chance to play, and VL took advantage of his 4.4k price tag. Dickerson has moved into the starting lineup with Cargo hurt, and has been fantastic over the last 4 games. He used a lights out Bumgarner, but Bumgarner didn’t give him anything close to what he was hoping for at that price. Liriano was a disappoint leaving in the 4th inning with an injury, but both players had him so it didn’t hurt them. Colby Lewis has really struggled this season, and I don’t understand that play in a cash game at all.
Birdwings went with a very balanced pitching approach, and was ahead in that aspect of the matchup. AJ Burnett was a great option facing the struggling Padres offense, and Birdwings nailed it with him tonight. Iwakuma pitched a really decent game, and I thought he was a little under priced in this matchup. Birdwings like VL, targeted a lot of hitters in the COL/ATL game. After matching VL with the 5 players from that game, Birdwings nailed his Dozier pick. Lind, Marte, and Hardy just didn’t do enough for Birdwings to stay ahead of VL in this game.
This series has been great already, and the Championship matchup hasn’t disappointed at all. Vegetable_Lasagna now owns a 2 game lead over BirdWings, but both match ups have been super close. There’s still a lot that can happen, and we will be bringing you all the coverage here on RotoGrinders. Game 3 post will be up soon!