MLB $1M Home Run Review: Tuesday, May 3rd
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 and massive prize pool GPPs.
Today we looked at the MLB $1M Home Run [$150K to 1st] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $300.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
BeepImaJeep mixed a number of teams (ARI, NYY, SF, TOR, BAL) but did not need to go heavy on any one particular team en-route to a seventh place finish in just 13 entries. While he didn’t favor any particular team and instead favored a select few players (Phil Gosselin, Buster Posey, Aaron Nola), his 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Giants stack filled in nicely behind solid outings by Danny Santana, Jeff Samardzija, and Jose Quintana.
Likewise, Drolson22’s top lineup was a low-owned team stack in the Los Angeles Angels, good for a fifth place finish. While his batting did benefit from the popular Danny Santana (50% owned for Drolson22), a 1-0 duel between Aaron Nola and Michael Wacha did much of the heavy lifting for his fifth place lineup.
With a lot of the chalk failing to meet expectations, the ownership percentages in EmpireMaker2’s first place finish are usually only seen in massive field GPPs (six players under 2.5% owned). As a road dog in a high-total game, the Dodgers 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 order exploded and left EmpireMaker2 a 15-point lead over third place despite a poor outing by Sonny Gray.
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
What Surfyo lacked in punch (per EmpireMaker2), he made up for in consistency. While being bested by EM2 and settling for a 2nd place finish, Surfyo’s lowest scoring player had nine points. A four-team mini-stack which included the two seemingly perfect players from each team combined with consistent pitching to earn Surfyo $75k. He may be taking an early vacation from work, so look for him on the beach this coming week.
Single-Entry vs. BeepImaJeep/Drolson22/EmpireMaker2
Out of 3363 entries in the $1M Home Run, 867 of those entries (25.8%) were entered courtesy of players using a single bullet. The table below compares the exposures of those single entries to the exposures of BeepImaJeep, Drolson22, EmpireMaker2, and 31 other top professionals picked off of RotoGrinders’ leaderboard:
