MLB $500K Super Fastball Review: Tuesday, September 6th
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 $33.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
Fielding half of the maximum entries allowed, boggslite dealt most of his damage through a 5th place finish. This came through a same game stack of both the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs. Taking the #1-4 from Milwaukee, he was still able to fit in the #1-3, & 7 from the Cubs (#7 Miguel Montero: ‘THE BAT’ proj of 2.43 pts/1k$, Finished with 21 points). The savings from a great value in Ross Stripling (‘THE BAT’ Proj: 3.79 pts/1k$, Finished with 19.45 points) allowed to spend up at the big bats and Ervin Santana (who didn’t pan out as well).
FeistOfWinterveil ran out the max entries and chose to use a broad spectrum of ownerships. This type of strategy is reflected his 16.7% cash rate, but allowed him to have a fraction of shares in the high scoring stacks of the night. Even though his percentage of MIL stacks was less than half of his ownership in other teams (CLE, COL, NYM, TOR, and WAS), a fair amount of Cardinals ownership boosted him into three top-10 finishes, including the $100K first place.
Underjones only trotted out 17 lineups and went heavy on the Orioles, but still managed to squeak in a 15th place finish. Obviously this followed the same vein as the others on the back of a Brewers stack, but to fill out his roster, he landed a number of solid individual picks (Jose Reyes: ‘THE BAT’ Proj 2.26 pts/$1k, Finished with 24 DK points).
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
Kodrum mixed in some risky plays and chalk home run bats to take down a 7th place finish. While the slate didn’t produce any substantial #1-5 stacks outside of Milwaukee, taking the best hitters from several different games was a strategy littered throughout the top spots. When you can hit on 1-2 HR per position, who needs to stack?
Single-Entry vs. boggslite/FeistOfWinterveil/underjones
Out of 16,569 entries in the Super Fastball, 3328 of those entries (20.1%) were entered courtesy of players using a single bullet. The table below compares the exposures of those single entries to the exposures of boggslite, FeistOfWinterveil, underjones, and 40 other top professionals picked off of RotoGrinders’ leaderboard:
