MLB $350K Power Alley Review: Tuesday, July 25th
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 Power Alley [$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
Anilprao88 played a majority of his lineups between two games: MIA@TEX and ATL@ARI. While they both featured the highest game totals on the slate, the lack of diversification kept anilprao from reaching the top-tier. His pitching, on the other hand, wasn’t as focused or highly exposed as he followed along the chalk line. Even though his 14th place finish was only followed up by a handful of other cashes within the top-100, he finished with a healthy 53.3% cash rate and made a moderate profit.
Part of the reason why some of the others had climbing the leaderboard was that Awesemo cleaned it out. He took down the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place finishes with another four within the top-50. He absolutely cleaned up on the cheap pitching options which allowed him the salary to really target the high team totals on the night evenly across the board (ARI, CLE, MIA, TEX, and WAS). Even though he spread out his ownerships thin and didn’t reach over 25% ownership on a single bat, he cashed on over 50% of his lineups (83 of his 150).
PetrGibbons followed the same pattern and included a healthy dose of Charlie Morton, Jordan Montgomery, and Madison Bumgarner. At his highest owned batter was Evan Gattis at 17%, he stacked almost any and all teams over a projected run total of 4.5. Even though Petr capped his lineups at just 100, he cashed on 53 of those and reached a high of 2nd place (good for $25,000).
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
Ayoj attacked the pitching position almost as cheaply as possible and got away with over 61 points on a salary of just $14,700. Both Jordan Montgomery and Charlie Morton were owned by pros at a higher rate than the field as they were both in good spots against teams with low run totals and moderate to high strikeout rates. While Cleveland didn’t hold one of the higher projected team totals, they finished with 11 on the back of 1HR, 2 RBI, and 2SB from Bradley Zimmer (40 DK points) and 1HR, 4RBI, 1 double, and 2BB from Edwin Encarnacion (31 DK points). Although Ayoj missed the Zimmer pick, he picked up some of those runs and RBI that came along from him.
Single-Entry vs. anilprao88/Awesemo/PetrGibbons
Out of 9196 entries in play, 21.1% 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:
