ResultsDB Report: Week of August 7th-August 13th
The DFS Tournament Report is going to operate with a different format moving forward, as we’ve introduced a great new feature/tool here at RotoGrinders, ResultsDB, that provides daily congratulations to users on the homepage for their big wins.
Each week, we’ll highlight three of the winning lineups and look into their ownership correlations. To learn more about the ResultsDB, check out our forum post – Introduction to ResultsDB forum post.
You can access any date you wish to review past contests, but here are links to the ResultsDB for the past week:
August 8th $500K Full Count
We always keep an eye on how Dahladino does in GPPs across the industry because he proudly displays the RotoGrinders avatar (and we thank him for that). He’s one of the best in the industry with a top 40 TPOY ranking including a top 50 ranking in NBA and a top 20 ranking in MLB. Last Tuesday he proved his MLB prowess yet again by taking down the $500K Full Count on DraftKings. Not only did he win, he had three of the top four scores giving him $148,000 in payouts just for those three cashes. That’s nearly 30% of the $500K prize pool for those keeping score at home.
Dahladino entered the maximum 150 lineups at $55 a pop ($8,250 investment) and cashed an amazing 73 times (48.7% cash rate) for $165.191.19 – a tidy profit of over $150K. His winning lineup scored a staggering 272.15, a score that was 12 points better than his own second place lineup and 13 points better than 3rd place finisher moklovin’s lineup. Not surprisingly, it was anchored from 91 fpts from the Chris Sale (55% owned)/”(player-popup)Corey Kluber”:/players/corey-kluber-11495 (39% owned) chalk combination. Throw in a severely underowned (and more importantly cheap to allow the Sale/Kluber pairing) White Sox mini-stack headlined by a 31 fpt outpour from punt catcher Kevan Smith and a Twins four-player stack that put up more than 100 fpts and a one-off from Ryon Healy that was good for another 20+ fpts, and you get the massive winning score.
So how does one cash nearly 50% of the time in one of the toughest tournaments in the industry? It starts with a three pitcher core. Sale, Kluber, and Angel Miranda accounted for over 287 of his 300 possible pitcher representation with an almost all in on Chris Sale at 91 percent. Miranda was a bust otherwise he might have won 50% of the prize pool instead of 33%. He took a more diversified approach with hitters having stacks of every team from all appearances but focusing in on certain games a bit more. He had 10% or more of 24 different hitters with three players having massive shares. Freddie Freeman at a 56% ownership for dahladino didn’t hurt with 14 fpts but it was the 35% of Ryon Healy and his 22 fpts and the 50% of Max Kepler and his massive 35 fpts that ultimately led to his massive success in the contest.
August 10th $175K Fastball
He doesn’t have a ranking in the RotoGrinders TPOY race, but that is merely because he hasn’t opted in to our ranking system. If he had, he’d surely be among the leaders.
Who am I speaking of? The DFS legend known as bcalicore. You’ll find him routinely at the top of the high-stakes contests and he’s made numerous live final appearances as well. This past Thursday he put up one of the closest to optimal scores of the week with the highest score of the day at 228.60 (85.06% of the optimal) in the $33 buy-in $175K Fastball. He’d max enter with 150 lineups ($4,950 in entry fees) and cash 44 times (slightly under 30% cash rate) for winnings of slightly over $24K for just a little under $20K in profit. The bulk of that came from his 1st and 4th place finish that paid $20K total. His winning lineup benefited mainly from his bats as he had a good, but not great, 50.6 fpts from his two SP’s Rodon and deGrom. It was the Mets/Orioles double stack that vaulted him to the top, especially with six different players (Mancini, Walker, Flores, Jones, Granderson, and Conforto) all putting up at least 21 fpts.
As is often the case when a player puts in 150 entries, the key is narrowing down a group of pitchers and fitting in stacks around that core. Bcalicore had five pitchers with 25+% ownership but only 10 hitters over 10% ownership and none above 14%. It’s a less risky style than the one dahladino employed above that is ideally looking for one or two big scores from the 150 lineups. That’s precisely what happened this night with the two top four finishes.
August 11th $400K Walk-Off Home Run
GrindersLive host and Premium content contributor Bobby Firestone continues to prove he’s one of the best players in MLB DFS after another big score – this time winning $100,000 for the top score in the Friday night $400K Walk-Off Home Run. He entered only four lineups in the $555 buy-in event (the max was 24) and turned that $2,220 into six figures (cashing just the one time). He edged out one of the top players in the industry scout326 (#5 in the TPOY race) by a single point with the current #3 in the TPOY race youdacao another two points behind in 3rd place.
Carlos Carrasco at 40+% ownership paid off for those who invested in him (as Bobby did in his winning lineup) with nearly 40 fpts and Bobby paired him with a solid 25.1 fpts from Red Sox hurler Eduardo Rodriguez (at less than 5% ownership). A 3-3-2 stack of Brewers, Twins, and Reds saw four different hitters contribute 20+ fpts in Manuel Pina, Brian Dozier, Zack Cozart, and Eric Thames.
With only four lineups in the contest, Bobby didn’t have a core… instead he looked to maximize each lineup and make them unique. His second best lineup (just short of cashing) was a Twins four player stack with four one offs. He took similar approaches in his remaining two lineups with a Mets stack and an Orioles stack filled in with one off’s.
