MLB $750K Frozen Rope Review: Tuesday, May 30th
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 $750K Frozen Rope [$100K to 1st!] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $70 and maximum entry limit of 150 lineups per person.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
With a lot of landmines in the mid-priced pitching options, Petteytheft89 did well to own Robbie Ray at a 44% clip (46.85 DK points), Gio Gonzalez at 36% (17.65 pts), and Eric Skoglund at 15% (26.45 pts on $4200 salary). He concentrated his batting efforts between the Rockies and Mariners in what would be the 1st and 4th highest projected team totals on the night. As the Rockies were the team to own, pettey did well to differentiate and take the other side as well. His 1st place lineup featured a 5-man Seattle stack as well benefitting from Robbie Rays complete game shut-out. In the end, pettey did well to follow up his 1st place with another eight lineups inside the top-100 and an overall cash rate of 56%.
Rotomania only played a handful of lineups, but put together a solid showing by relying on Robbie Ray. Without a value pitcher in the lineup like Eric Skoglund, Roto had to settle with middling teams on the bats: DET, MIL, NYM, TEX (while affording a number of Blue Jays). Although he didn’t take a top-10 finish or really blow us out of the water, he did land two lineups within the top-300 and finished with a great cash rate of 66.7%.
While the others felt they could predict some higher scoring affairs with more certainty, scout326 relied on his ability to predict the higher quality batting orders (with ownership peaking at 20% on the bats) and targeted roughly 9 teams at a steady rate. While a wider ownership strategy normally results in a lower cash rate with a few top finishes from time to time, scout finished with 52.7% of his 150 lineups in the money. While a 6th place finish among another six in the top-100 was a great result, unfortunately due to the top-heavy structure of the prize pool, 6th place was over a $95,000 difference than 1st.
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
EnchantedLama may have missed on all of the bats with multi-HR games, but he was consistent throughout his lineup and featured strong pitching. His mish-mash of single off players only included one player below a 10 point total while the rest featured multi-hit games. Lama took down a cool $50,000 on the single $70 entry.
Single-Entry vs. petteytheft89/Rotomania/scout326
Out of 10,842 entries in play, 21.8% 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 70 other top professionals picked off of RotoGrinders’ leaderboard:
