MLB $175K Fastball Review: Tuesday, May 2nd
The Grinder review series will provide the reader with a breakdown of the exposures of “top of the leaderboard” players, the top single-entry lineup, and a comparison between all single-entry lineups and professionals for large slate DraftKings GPPs.
This week, we looked at the MLB $175K Fastball on DraftKings with a buy-in of $33 and maximum entry limit of 150 lineups per person.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
With just 31 lineups, ThatStunna leaned on who he felt was the best value in Chris Sale (97%; 37 DK points), Carlos Martinez (84%; 25.5 DK points), and a number of New York Mets. As his heavy-owned pitching prospects knocked it out of the park while his Mets batters did enough, he cashed on over 64.5% of his lineups. What he lacked however, was variety in his batting stacks to really reach the top-end of finishes. His 22nd place finish was still a great feat on the limited lineups as he put three within the top-100.
While Stunna nearly hit 100% on pitching ownerships, Draftcheat went all the way (on 150 lineups even). Chris Sale had a great night as described earlier, but Trevor Cahill was a tremendous value and loved by the pros accordingly. Trevor Cahill was a favorite at home, cost just $5000, and went up against a Colorado team that was projected at just 3.7 runs. While he went heavy on pitching, DraftCheat’s batting stacks featured a number of two-man, three-man, and single players. With such a large slate to pick from and different batter/pitcher combinations to exploit, DraftCheat did well finding those explosive games with the likes of Miguel Sano, Jose Altuve, Brett Gardner, Jay Bruce, and others. DraftCheat demolished the standings as he cashed on 74% of lineups and fit 17 lineups inside the top-50.
Moklovin had a similar train of thought as ThatStunna, but evened it up with 100% ownership in his pitchers and playing more of the other New York side (Yankees). As the Yankees put up 11 runs while Aaron Judge and Brett Gardner combined for four home runs, Mokloving cashed on 80% of his lineups and peaked with a 7th place finish. However he lacked some of the standouts from several other teams as his primary focus was on NYM and NYY which left with him just two lineups inside the top-100 (out of 60 total lineups).
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
Masteryoshi13 took down a 5th place finish on a single bullet with Tyler Chatwood dragging him down on a 5.2 point start. The Padres were only projected for 3.8 runs, but ended up batting in five runs in 5.1 innings while striking out only four times. The rest of his lineup looked to be in sync as he didn’t have a single batter in single-digit point totals as he ran a four-man Minnesota and three-man New York Mets stack. Aaron Judge rounded out his batting order solo as the top raw point total on the night and solidified him with a $4000 check.
Single-Entry vs. ThatStunna/DraftCheat/moklovin
Out of 6130 entries in play, 14.8% of those entries were entered courtesy of players using a single bullet. The table below compares the exposures of those single entries to the above multi-entry grinders and 70 other top professionals picked off of RotoGrinders’ leaderboard:
