MLB $500K Super Fastball Review
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 $500K Super Fastball [$100K to 1st] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $33.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
Ganondorf built a foundation of chalk pitching, who were in great matchups. He didn’t favor any particular hitters from there, spreading out his stacks pretty thin between TOR, HOU, NYY, etc. While he did have several of the great performers of the slate in Nelson Cruz, Eduardo Nunez, and Chris Carter, he couldn’t fit them together in a single lineup to pull down significant cash. However, he did manage two top-100 finishes in 100 entries.
TheClone had a similar strategy almost down to a T, even with the pitching. However, again with even 200 entries and a huge variety of small % owned players, the combinations are against you to put together the perfect lineup. Even though he managed an 11th ($1500) & 34th ($500) place finish, this tournament was so top-heavy that anything but a top-4 finish (combined 34% of prize pool) could be seen as a failure.
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
Goldenarm1234 followed along with the previous trend with chalk pitching (albeit not Julio Urias) and hit on most of his HR-heavy volatile low-owned hitters. He took down first place for $100K (20% of the prize pool), which was not too shabby for a single bullet. He only paired Starlin Castro and Alex Rodriguez as teammates, while cherry picking the rest of his roster.
Single-Entry vs. ganondorf/TheClone
Out of 17,415 entries in the $500K Super Fastball, 3579 of those entries (20.6%) were entered courtesy of players using a single bullet. The table below compares the exposures of those single entries to the exposures of ganondorf, TheClone, and 25 other top professionals picked off of RotoGrinders’ leaderboard:
