MLB $350K Medium Bat Flip Review: Tuesday, June 27th
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 Bat Flip [$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
As moklovin focused on some of the more reasonably priced pitching options outside of 63% in Max Scherzer, his stacks in the batting order were able to handle a nice chunk of his salary. He focused mainly on BOS, CLE, & TOR who were the #1, 2, 4 ranked teams in projected runs. He was able to fit many of these stacks in because he took reasonable ‘s of value plays on those teams: Christian Vasquez, Sam Travis, and Chris Young. Moklovin finished out with a cash rate of 51.3, but more importantly, landed 2× 6th place finishes with four others in the top-50.
Rayofhope followed much of the same strategy, taking many of the Boston value plays while switching up his pitching to feature another pricy option in Luis Severino (who scored the most points on the slate). As he wasn’t able to draw much of TOR on his remaining salary, he opted for other teams such as MIA, DET, and MIL. Rayofhope didn’t have the same success at the top end of his lineups, although he managed to cash at a 67.8% rate and did take down a 4th place finish.
Youdacao absolute smothered the leaderboard as he was seen in the 1st, 2nd, 8th, and 10th place finishes (with 12 in the top-50 total). His dominance was capped off with his CIN and value BOS stacks who absoluted cleaned house. His pitching staff didn’t blow down the doors, but outside of a few low owned options, no one made a statement on the slate or was ‘must own’ (although Luis Severino was close). His single man out in Trea Turner is who made the difference for his 1st place team, stealing 4 bases on 2 hits and 1 walk (possibly contributing to Montero’s demotion). Youdacao featured a healthy 53.3% cash rate and had quite the profitable day!
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
We have to stroll down to the 21st place finish to find our single-entry leader. The day was mostly taken over by the Boston value plays that most pro’s jumped on and the overall chalk. Ball-busted lead the way with a 5-man Cincinnati stack, complete with starting pitcher Tim Adleman, and filling the rest of the order out nicely with Trea Turner (32) and George Springer (25). He may have just landed outside the big money, but I’m sure he won’t complain with bringing in 17x his buy-in.
Single-Entry vs. moklovin/rayofhope/youdacao
Out of 9196 entries in play, 17.4% 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:
