MLB $400K Grand Slam Review: Friday, June 16th
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 Grand Slam [$100K to 1st!] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $444 and maximum entry limit of 30 lineups per person.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
Ehafner spread Max Scherzer and Aaron Nola across all thirty lineups. As one might expect, Max Scherzer led the whole field in gross points with 36.40 while Aaron Nola underwhelmed for 8.9 points (1.41 pts/k$). He settled on a few different teams for the bats: CHC, CLE, & MIL. It was a 5-man CLE and 3-man MIL stack that fueled his 3rd place finish for $20,000. He finished with an even 50% cash rate and through seven more lineups inside the top-100.
With only three lineups, petteytheft89 played unique lineups for each with no overlap. While two failed to cash at all, his third that featured a slew of Detroit Tigers took home first place for $100k. Everyone on his team was pretty well unonwed except for the single underperformer, Corey Seager, who put up a pedestrian 2 points on 1 walk.
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
MFratt represented single entry players well as he took home a cool $40k for placing in 2nd. His Cleveland lineup was aided by his ability to pick out Aaron Judge, who went ham for 32 points on 1 HR and much more. Dan Straily helped Miami shutout Atlanta with 8 K and Alex Wood handled Cincinnati through 8 innings with only 1 earned run.
Single-Entry vs. ehafner/petteytheft89
Out of 1001 entries in play, 29.0% 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:
