MLB $300K Full Count Review: Friday, May 26th
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 $300K Full Count [$50K to 1st!] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $55 and maximum entry limit of 150 lineups per person.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
Out of six lineups, Assani played four stacks of the Cardinals who got extinguished by Carlos Martinez. His only cashing lineup, despite a slew of great pitching plays, was comprised of a 5-man Tampa Bay stack with 3 singles. Two of those, Martin Maldonado and Neil Walker, managed to carry a majority of his lineup with totals of 21 and 37 respectively. The other half of his 4th place lineup was comprised of a pair of aces totaling 24 K (Chris Archer, Max Scherzer).
Boggslite had a similar path towards success, albeit over 20 lineups. He spread out his ownership wide across all but six teams. Although he had a health cash rate of 45%, his spread ownership didn’t result in many deep finishes as the combinations weren’t there. The combinations he did enter however, made all the difference as he took down the $50k top prize with a lineup featuring five Marlins and a few singles. Max Scherzer was once again represented with his absurd 56.9% ownership, proving everyone right with a 43.9 point outing, his highest of the year.
At first glance, it may have seemed like ehafner spread out his ownership thin and took the shotgun approach. However, over 150 lineups, you tend to broaden your horizons a bit. His ownership were still quite segregated towards HOU, LAA, STL, & TB. His 39.3% cash rate was healthy enough to provide a decent ROI by itself, but ehafner took it further as he took down a 3rd place finish with 8 other lineups within the top-100.
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
SlimTheSecond has an apt username as he ended up finishing in 2nd for a cool $25k with his COL/MIA stacks. The Rockies are always a good bet at home, and with the mid-priced Marlins, Slim needed salary relief somewhere. He got it with a pair of $2900 and $2800 catcher/shortstop combination who combined for 22 points (Chris Iannetta, Tim Beckham) and a value pitcher in Zack Godley.
Single-Entry vs. Assani/boggslite/ehafner
Out of 6198 entries in play, 22.2% 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:
