MLB $350K Medium All Star Break Special Review: Friday, July 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 Medium All Star Break Special [$50K to 1st!] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $44 and maximum entry limit of 150 lineups per person.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
DollarBillW only filled out five lineups, but he made at least count as he whiffed on three, min-cashed on one, and took down a 4th place finish with the other. The keys to his success were barrage of Rangers and Indians bats. They each totaled 10 runs or over while only projected for 5.5 each (while still tied for 3rd most projected runs). 6 of 8 of his bats featured a home run while his other two totaled 4 hits and 5 RBI.
ThatStunna was spread out over 30 lineups, but still concentrated on mostly the Yankees and Rockies, teams with the two highest projected run totals. However, while taking Max Scherzer and James Paxton at significant rates, he mixed in several players at the bottom of each order to save on salary. In the end it was either of the Yankees or Rockies who ran him up the leaderboard, but a Indians/Orioles stack landed him in 9th place. He still landed a 46.7% salary despite not hitting on some expensive and highly owned plays such as Gary Sanchez and Mark Reynolds.
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
Bmarcu made spot plays all over the board but really hit on two Houston Astros (Carlos Correa: 23 DK points, George Springer: 46 DK points) enroute to 18th place finish. Another great mid-owned play in Manny Machado (38 DK points) was followed up with great value pitching (German Marquez & Dan Straily), reaching over 3x on each. With Colorado playing at home and the White Sox projected to put up 5.6 runs, German was a ballsy pick, but at a $5700 salary he didn’t need to put up a big line.
Single-Entry vs. DollarBillW/ThatStunna
Out of 8,943 entries in play, 23.1% 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:
