MLB $700K Super Fastball Review: Tuesday, April 4th
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 $700K Super Fastball [$100K to 1st!] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $33 and maximum entry limit of 150 lineups per person.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
As the top two projected teams for runs scored, Cleveland and San Francisco were heavily targeted as part of Awesemo’s core. Meanwhile his top two pitchers, Jake Arrieta and Kenta Maeda faced off against the bottom two teams in projected runs scored, St. Louis and San Diego. He finished with four lineups inside the top-15 (3rd, 6th, 9th, 11th) and an overall cash rate of 52.7%.
Ehafner, on the other hand, faded Cleveland and doubled down on San Francisco. He also sported a healthy amount of Dodgers, who were -240 favorites over San Diego and were projected to score 4.5 runs. While ehafner still played Jake Arrieta a fair bit, he opted for “(player-popup)Lance McCullers Jr, who by most accounts had the second highest projected strikeouts against a Seattle team at home. While he didn’t take the top off the leaderboards like Awesemo, ehafner still put up a handful of top scores, with five lineups over 140 points and an impressive cash rate of 67.3%.
Stlcardinals84 didn’t follow the 150 lineup mold as he produced on just 21 lineups. He game stacked SF@ARI as the game featured a slate-high 9 point total (ended up totalling 12 with 22 total hits). His top lineup, landing in a glorious 7th place tie for $4500, essentially went as planned. It featured the his highest owned player at each player aside from his second pitcher, who he finished with Jake Arrieta due to his remaining salary. Thus with such a solid core of highly owned players, stlcardinals84 cashed on every lineup bare one (95.2%).
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
Many of the projected high scoring games went to plan and many of the casual players got wasted. We found the highest placed single entry lineup down in 69th place (22.4 DK points off of 1st). Rm23stpe sure didn’t mind the $600 score on his $33 buy-in as he followed the pack on stacking the Giants. He followed that up with some solid single pieces in Ryan Braun (19 points), Mike Trout (10 points), and Carlos Santana (21 points) but fell short on pitching as Matt Shoemaker lasted just 5 innings while giving up 2 home runs.
Single-Entry vs. Awesemo/ehafner/stlcardinals84
Out of 20,364 entries in play, 20.8% 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 40 other top professionals picked off of RotoGrinders’ leaderboard:
