MLB The $1.2M 1776 Review: Friday, June 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 $1.2M 1776 [$200K to 1st!] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $1776 and maximum entry limit of 22 lineups per person.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
Chipotleaddict concentrated on Robbie Ray and Lance McCullers, who would put up sub-par games, but still finished with a 50% win rate on 11 lineups. For batters, he mainly stacked TEX and CWS, however, his 18th finish came with one of his lower owned teams, a SEA stack featuring Robinson Cano and Kyle Seager. Chipotle added 32nd and 34th finshes with his favored stack CWS/TEX.
Pianoclub had the same idea as ChipotleAddict on pitchers, but switched up his batters by spreading out his ownership across the board. He featured a stack or two across most teams, but totaled three on his favorites: CHC, CWS, MIN, and TEX. It resulted in a low 18.2% cash rate but managed to get him into 2nd place with a combination of SF and CWS.
Stlcardinals84 approached the mound slightly different than the others by headlining Alex Wood against a projected low scoring San Diego squad. Just like the others though, he was high on the White Sox and Rangers who had solid games. They totaled 15 runs and were a staple in 3 of his 4 top lineups (3rd, 26th, and 36th). In his 6th place finish, Robinson Cano, Kyle Seager, and Ben Gamol put up spectacular numbers, but he was dragged down by a few individual plays in Luke Maile and T.J Rivera (0 and 7 points respectively). In eleven lineuos, Stl cashed on ten of them for a 90.9% cash rate.
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
Ganondorf isn’t your average single-entry player, but in $1776 buy-in, the multi-entry entries seem to dwindle. The other pros ran a hard bargain as Ganondorf just made it to 35th place (~37 DK points from first). Altough he came through on pitching, unlike the others, he ran into some duds on his BAL/TB stacks that capped his overall score.
Single-Entry vs. chipotleaddict/pianoclub/stlcardinals84
Out of 750 entries in play, 24.4% 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:
