NBA $600K Triple Threat Review: Tuesday, March 14th
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 $600K Triple Threat [$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
Madoublet98 played a typical PG/C-centric lineup build, but opted for mid-range (Kyrie Irving) and value plays (Jeremy Lin, Isaiah Whitehead) at point guard. While Russell Westbrook put up an astonishing raw point total of 77.50 DK points, good for 5.8x, he still made up for lack of Russell ownership with 99% of Draymond Green (62 DK points on 20 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 steals, and 6 blocks). The 4.9% of Russell Westbrook only allowed Madoublet to land one top-25 finish (8th for $3000), his overall value plays put him in position to cash at a 78.4% rate.
Mray6288 decided to go heavy on Russell Westbrook and it paid off as he looks to close out the season averaging a triple double. An above average ownership in Draymond Green (51% versus field ownership of 24.9%) propelled him into a number of deep finishes. Six of the top-100 finishes belonged to Mray, including a third place lineup for $20k. His overall cash rate took a hit (63.3%) as he missed on a handful of other plays (Zaza Pachulia, Trevor Booker, Thaddeus Young, and Quincy Acy among others). Hitting on his key ownerships was paramount to the deep success and above average cash rate, despite having some 30%-owned bombs.
Youdacao missed on the Russell Westbrook train as well, but made up with it with so much value (Iman Shumpert at 7.4x, Caris LeVert at 8.3x, Guillermo Hernangomez at 8.8x). Even without much RW, he placed in 4th, 8th, & 30th place (two of which were without RW). Youdacao played a similiar PG/C strategy as Madoublet but doubled up on a number of great lineups which allowed him to put 32 lineups inside the top-500. His cash rate was at a similar 75.3%.
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
Even in the $33 buy-in there was a strong multi-entry presence due to the late season grind (18.7% single entry lineups). The Matty_Ice_Clay finished at the top of the single bullet entries and still only managed to crack a 21st place finish. On such a short slate, Matty only needed a handful of players to carry the workload as Brook Lopez and Victor Oladipo barely cracked 5x, with Spencer Dinwiddie at an abysmal 1.3x. Fortunately, Matty outpaced himself from much of the field as three of his low-owned players were some of his top performers (Matt Barnes with 7.6x, Guillermo Hernangomez with 8.8x, and Caris Levert with 8.3x).
Single-Entry vs. Multi-Entry Grinders
Out of 18,142 entries in play, 18.7% 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:
