NBA $425K Four Point Play Review: Friday, February 24th
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. All players have been merged into the positions they are eligible for on FanDuel to give a more accurate and concise view of exposure by position.
This week, we looked at the $425K Four Point Play [$30K to 1st!] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $4 and maximum entry limit of 150 lineups per person.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
With a lot of value on the board at the PG, SF, and PF positions, Centers weren’t the premium play they usually are. Corey Joseph was starting for Kyle Lowry and saw much love from the field and pros accordingly. He did not disappoint as he put up 26.75 DK points on a salary of just $3200. On the same note, with a lot of scoring on the bench with Lowry, DeMar DeRozan picked up the slack enroute to a 43 real-life point night (55.75 DK points)! Along the same lines, Dario Saric was placed into the starting lineup with Nerlens Noel and Ersan Ilyasova being dealt before the trade deadline. Robert Covington was able to pick up some of the points and rebounds that went out the door as he had gone over 5x over each of his last 5 games and finished with 25 points and 11 rebounds on .643% shooting (54.25 DK points). AshyL4rry was on the ball with all of his top picks and was able to cash in 84% of his lineups while taking down a 5th place finish for $7k.
Butler2222 followed a similiar thought process to AshyL4rry as he carried Robert Covington and Dario Saric in 100% of his 40 lineups, while placing Cory Jospeh in 83% of them. Russell Westbrook might have been $13k, but he is a slate-changer in that when he puts up a 70+ point game, you probably aren’t winning without him. With all the value on the slate, this was particularly true that even though he “only” hit 5.6x; there was enough salary to go around and the raw points he produces are second to none. Butler may have had only 40 lineups in play, but when you have a dense and narrow core that smashes value, you can have over 50% of them break 300 points like Butler. He took down two 23rd place finishes and cashed in 95% of his lineups.
From Dahladino’s ownership, you may think that he played a single entry, took a top-10 finish, and scored a big prize to be listed in this article. That is not quite the story as he played a single lineup, but played a total of 150 entries. This can be more viable with FanDuel’s flatter and wider payouts than on DraftKings, but regardless, he finished with 320.5 points and tied for 1169th place 150 times. Marc Gasol may have bombed, but he made with it by going over 5x on each of his remaining seven players.
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
Illboyz24 played the common value plays but also cherry picked John Wall against a terrible Sixers and Rudy Gobert facing Milwaukee’s weakness. Wall went for 62.50 DK points on 21 FGA, 14 assist, and 8 rebounds (2 shy of the triple double), while Gobert finished with more rebounds than points (16 vs 15). Illboyz24 managed to split a 5th place with 2 others, one being the aforementioned AshyL4rry. On just a single bullet, I bet he won’t complain about the $5k payday.
Single-Entry vs. AshyL4rry/butler2222/dahladino
Out of 119,268 entries in the Four Point Play, 17.2% 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 75 other top professionals picked off of RotoGrinders’ NBA leaderboard:
