NBA Shootaround Review: Wednesday, 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 Wednesday slate GPPs.
This week we looked at the $300k Wednesday Shootaround [$50k to 1st!] on DraftKings with a buy-in of $20.
Multi-Entry Grinders of the Game
All of the pros featured this week entered a fair number of lineups, while youdacao and ehafner went heavy on a few key players which resulted in a high cash rate, scout326 maxed out at 40% exposure for any one player and placed sixth with just the right combination.
With 200 entries in play, ehafner was sold on using D’Angelo Russell, Vince Carter, Matt Barnes, and Andre Drummond in more than 50% of his lineups (every position but PF; Kevin Love at 42%). He had heavily targeted the LAL/MEM game as Memphis had been dealing with a slew of injuries and the Lakers backcourt was flourishing as of late. Along with the other two pros, he almost exclusively used centers in his utility position as he was banking on the bigs to have a good night.
Scout326 had diversified more than the other two players and did not own any player in over 40% of his lineups. His sixth place lineup did not stack any one game, but instead relied on a random sample of value plays. This more varied approach followed him into using a higher number of non-centers in his utility position (37%) than ehafner (8%) and youdacao (16%) combined.
Youdacao’s construction was similiar to that of ehafner in that they targeted Andre Drummond, Matt Barnes, DeAndre Jordan, LeBron James, and Mike Conley to have great games. He diverisified heavily at power forward as well while playing Dwyane Wade, coming off a poor shooting night but recently increased usage, in 100% of lineups.
Single-Entry Winner of the Game
As the highest finish single-entry player on the board tied for third place, JimTrader did not stray much from the conventional wisdom, coming in with only two players in single digit exposure and a minimum of 8.2%. It was clear that he had been reading RotoGrinders articles as all but two of his picks (Gorgui Dieng & Marcus Morris) had been owned in over 10% of the pros’ lineups.
Single-Entry vs. ehafner/scout326/youdacao
Out of 17241 entries in the Shootaround, 3741 of those entries were entered courtesy of players using a single bullet. The table below compares the exposures of those single entries to the exposures of ehafner, scout326, youdacao, and 25 other top professionals picked off of RotoGrinders’ leaderboard:
