MLB $300K Super Fastball Review: Friday, April 7th
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 Super Fastball [$50K to 1st!] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $33 and maximum entry limit of 150 lineups per person.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
I_Slewfoot_u picked on TB, SEA, NYM, and MIA and he faded them on the bats and featured a heavy dose of Jesse Chavez, Francisco Liriano, Wei-Yin Chen, and Zach Wheeler against them on the mound. He didn’t favor any particularly hot batter, but instead focused primarily on team stacks and played the Cubs, Indians, Astros, Royals, Yankees, and the Athletics at almost equal intervals. His NYY/TEX stack was of interest as he took down 1st place with a margin of 6 points. The rest of his 48 lineups did not fair as favorably as he cashed on just 30.6% of his total lineups, but I think he will be able to overlook that.
Mray6288 ended up on the other side of the spectrum with a cash rate of 59.3% and 10 lineups inside the top-100. Although he didn’t tie slewfoot for a spot in 1st place, his 3rd place finish would have to do. Like slewfoot, he mainly stacked within a handful of teams, but took his ownership levels up to 30% per player and focused on fewer teams: Cubs, Indians, Astros, Rangers (the top-4 teams in projected runs scored). Most of his top pitchers also faced teams in the bottom end of the slate in projected runs.
Windchimesrrude took an alternative route on stacking and spread out his ownership across approximately 15 teams. The Cubs were of particular interest as he reached over 34% on Kyle Schwarber, 30% on Anthony Rizzo and 24% on Kris Bryant, but the other teams tailed off from there. Naturally, his cash rate (16.7%) straddled the cash rate for the field with such spread out ownership. With significant ownership in Jesse Chavez, windchimes was able to take a handful of top finishes that capped off with a 5th place lineup for $5,000.
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
OCNRA breathed some life back into the single-entry players after Tuesday’s brutal finish. OCNRA snatched a 2nd place finish with a 3 point outing from Jonathan Lucroy at catcher. He went five players deep on the Rangers as they took Oakland into double digits and three strong bats from Toronto: Kendrys Morales, Josh Donaldson, and Troy Tulowitzki. Zach Wheeler didn’t do him any favors as the 3.8 projected runs Miami was given credit for turned into 7 quickly and Wheeler only made it through 4 innings.
Single-Entry vs. I_Slewfoot_u/mray6288/windchimesrrude
Out of 10,509 entries in play, 19.5% 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 40 other top professionals picked off of RotoGrinders’ leaderboard:
