RG Contributor squirrelpatrol Wins 2018 FanDuel WFBC
11:00 PM ET FINAL UPDATE
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A Logan Forsythe groundout ends the Tigers/Twins game, and with that, RotoGrinders contributor squirrelpatrol is the $300,000 winner of the 2018 FanDuel WFBC! In a tight battle for second place, jwhitey92 held off paulyshorts and brutalmaster, who finished third and fourth, respectively. Congratulations to all of the finalists, and thanks to everyone for following along.
10:30 PM ET
The Miami/Washington and Colorado/Atlanta games have gone into extra innings, so squirrelpatrol still has some sweating to do. The nineteen-percent-owned Eddie Rosario is coming up to bat with two runners on for the Twins in the bottom of the 8th.
10:10 PM ET
brutalmaster has a full four-man Twins stack to watch out for. The Rockies just tied the game in the top of the 9th, meaning Foltynewicz isn’t going to get six win points.
10:00 PM ET
Three games have gone final and three others are in the 9th inning.
9:38 PM ET
At six percent ownership, Mike Foltynewicz is pulling teams up the leaderboard with his quality start and nine strikeouts through seven shutout innings. Awesemo and paulyshorts are tied for second place.
9:20 PM ET
Squirrelpatrol maintains his lead, with seven of the eight games in the 7th inning or later and the Twins batting in the bottom of the 6th. The popular Nationals batters have disappointed so far, totaling just two runs as they come to bat in the bottom of the 7th.
9:00 PM ET
Dilson Herrera launched a homer to left-center in the bottom of the 6th and squirrelpatrol had no one to cheer with because no one else at the WFBC owns Herrera! Bumgarner is being outpitched by Matt Harvey and so far, low-owned Reds are the key to unlocking this slate. Squirrelpatrol has a 17-point lead over jwhitey92 currently.
8:35 PM ET
J.D. Martinez smacked his league-leading 38th homer in the 3rd inning to shake up the leaderboard. Martinez was played on 15 lineups in the WFBC. The current top four in the standings all used Martinez. Red Sox stacks are off to a good start with five runs through the first four innings. The Reds have also scored five runs so far, at Bumgarner’s expense. Bumgarner was, by far, the most popular starting pitcher on this slate.
8:00 PM ET
jwhitey92 has vaulted to the top of the leaderboard with a trio of dingers from low-owned hitters – Joe Mauer (6%), Marcell Ozuna (6%) and Tyler Austin (7%) have all gone deep already. Madison Bumgarner is off to a solid start, with three strikeouts through three innings pitched.
7:50 PM ET
7:40 PM ET Hitter Ownership
Here are the hitters I found with at least 20% ownership.
Trea Turner – 41%
Anthony Rendon – 40%
Ryan Zimmerman – 39%
Miguel Sano – 38%
Brandon Belt – 35%
Andrew McCutchen – 29%
Joe Panik – 28%
Mookie Betts – 26%
Juan Soto – 22%
Bryce Harper – 21%
Andrew Benintendi – 20%
7:25 PM ET Pitcher Ownership
Madison Bumgarner – 37%
David Price – 21%
Miles Mikolas – 13%
Mike Foltynewicz – 6%
Dylan Covey – 5%
Matt Harvey – 4%
Jefry Rodriguez – 4%
Brad Keller – 4%
Tyler Glasnow – 3%
Joe Musgrove – 1%
Kohl Stewart – 1%
Wei Yin Chen – 1%
7:18 PM ET
We are live! The 100 finalists at the WFBC in San Diego are playing for $1,500,000 in cash prizes tonight, Saturday, August 18, 2018. There are eight MLB games on this championship slate. Good luck to all of the finalists! All of the games are officially underway now, so we have all of the ownership numbers.
Preview
The 100 seats in the 2018 FanDuel World Fantasy Baseball Championship have been filled, and the time to crown a new champion is now! RotoGrinders is well-represented at the WFBC in San Diego, with squirrelpatrol, braskey, ihaveareputation, and gneiffer07 all competing. The complete list of finalists is shown below.
Follow along with us tonight as we follow the action right here on RotoGrinders. Who’s going to take home the $300,000 first-place prize? Let’s make a game out of this! If you can guess the top three finishers in the exact right order, you’ll win a RotoGrinders T-shirt. Heck, if you get two of the top three correct, in any order, that might be impressive enough for a free shirt, we’ll just have to wait and see! The point is, I want to give someone a RotoGrinders shirt for playing along. Please limit one entry per user. All submissions are, of course, due when lineups lock at 7:05 PM Eastern Time.
| User | # of entries |
|---|---|
| petrgibbons | 5 |
squirrelpatrol  | 4 |
| braskey | 3 |
| awesemo | 3 |
| healybj19 | 3 |
| fuegosteve | 2 |
| dannypickem | 2 |
| chipotleaddict | 2 |
| lilbeckham7 | 2 |
| kylemurray | 2 |
| booourns | 2 |
| ihaveareputation | 2 |
| serious_moe | 2 |
| bigpapagates | 2 |
| brutalmaster | 2 |
| giantsquid | 2 |
| duhputz | 1 |
| AP4Pres | 1 |
| jwhitey92 | 1 |
| bigtilley | 1 |
| zoemia | 1 |
| akhmedsbunny | 1 |
| thorleif | 1 |
| paulyshorts | 1 |
| lovesbases | 1 |
| junkyard56 | 1 |
| chris_r12 | 1 |
| dabum2012 | 1 |
| thedfswizard | 1 |
| sgorman1987 | 1 |
| adidassweatsuit | 1 |
| rclemens | 1 |
| cjkalt | 1 |
| shawnzhan | 1 |
| bcalicore | 1 |
| ssmith_8 | 1 |
| marquis5811 | 1 |
| mdomz | 1 |
| hamwhich8 | 1 |
| gneiffer07 | 1 |
| conan_thebumbarian | 1 |
| vmoney33 | 1 |
| im_your_huckleberry | 1 |
| mpp12 | 1 |
| sirmalcolm | 1 |
| brandonadams | 1 |
| zrramba | 1 |
| mikeprush | 1 |
| ylowledbetter | 1 |
| thatstunna | 1 |
| wakeywakey | 1 |
| fheimes | 1 |
| g_rizen | 1 |
| ctkline | 1 |
| tomcat1290 | 1 |
| looeeggee | 1 |
| beez1973 | 1 |
| mcjester | 1 |
| buoya20 | 1 |
| tampabucsfan | 1 |
| durtyk | 1 |
| assani | 1 |
| mdube16 | 1 |
| zapster | 1 |
| fadetoblack | 1 |
| petteytheft89 | 1 |
| rayzethesky | 1 |
| jsb55y | 1 |
| tenaciousdjones | 1 |
| 3rd_and_schlong | 1 |
| amorgan8 | 1 |
| nolesman | 1 |
| roxyrory | 1 |