MLB $400K Super Fastball Review: Tuesday, July 19th
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 and massive prize pool GPPs.
Today we looked at the MLB $400K Super Fastball [$100K to 1st!] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $33.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
Assani overwhelmingly stacked Tampa Bay as they had some nice park factor going for them at Coors. His main core of Pearce, Forsythe, Longoria, and Miller produced a consistent line for him (70% cash rate) and the addition of a few Braves rounded out a solid hitting lineup. Missing on Recker and not having the great 2HR outing by Albert Pujols (2.3x value play per THE BAT) left him sitting in 99th place.
Dahladino spread his ownership a bit wider as he maxed out the 150 lineup limit and stacked mostly the opposite side of the TB @ COL game. This was to his detriment (33% cash rate) as Colorado laid an egg with only 1 run scored. However, in a flash of brilliance with some of his lower owned players, his 2-team stack of TB & LAA landed him in 2nd place. This effort was led by a value pitcher in Anibal Sanchez (2nd highest Pt/$ of all players per THE BAT at 3.2) and Pujols (who came alive as of late with a 2 HR game two days prior as well).
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
BigDogBull heavily stacked the Angels while mixing in some key Texan pride (Keuchel, Altuve, and Desmond) en-route to a 22nd place finish. Without many other blowout performances besides Pujols/Desmond, even a doughnut in Escobar didn’t slow the dogbull down.
Single-Entry vs. Assani/Dahladino
Out of 14,012 entries in the Super Fastball, 3134 of those entries (22.4%) were entered courtesy of players using a single bullet. The table below compares the exposures of those single entries to the exposures of Assani, Dahladino, and 40 other top professionals picked off of RotoGrinders’ leaderboard:
