Rise & Grind: April 2nd, 2014
Welcome to the RotoGrinders cup o’morning joe. Start your day off on the right foot with yesterday’s happenings and take a peek at the the upcoming day in the world of DFS.
So kick back, grab your first cup of coffee, and catch up on the latest news!
In Case You Missed It
- MGT Purchases DraftDay – In a shocking story that I personally thought was an April Fool’s joke at first, MGT announced last night that it was buying out DraftDay. DD has always been top notch in customer service, UI, rewards programs, and fun new contest types, and it should be interesting to see what they can do with MGT’s funding. Congratulations to Taylor and all the guys from DD, we at RG wish you nothing but the best! Be sure to check out the full article here for more details.
- The DFBC has its first Qualifier – FanDuel ran it’s first qualifer to the $3m DFBC last night, and it actually overlayed a little bit. It only ran with 4280 out of 5271 possible entries, but adj1985 was still able to take down the masses and win the trip to Vegas and the first spot in the field of 70. The fact that Freddie Freeman and Brad Miller (who was only 2.8% owned) each had a double dong night certainly didn’t hurt (well that just sounds dirty).
Today’s Events
- Tonight’s Action – Day 3 in the MLB season and boy is there a full schedule. 16 games in total, with every team in the league playing and a double header for the Indians and and Athletics. The MLB isn’t the only game in town tonight though, because there are a whopping 13 games on the slate in the NBA, including what should be a hilariously bad (read: full of fantasy goodness) game between Sacramento and the Lakers. Not quite as much going on in the rink tonight though, with only 4 games on the schedule.
- Today’s GPP’s – With the NBA season winding down prize pools have begun to dip a bit, but there is still plenty of money to be won. FanDuel’s Slam is going off at $70k tonight with $9k to first. They also have the MLB Strikeout running with a $40k prize pool. DraftKings and DraftStreet have a few early slate games going on as well, including DraftStreet’s $5,000, $55 entry GPP. For the later games, DraftKings is also running a $20k High Heat.
On the Grinders Schedule
Articles
- #1) NHL Daily Plays – JMBWngFn brings you all your daily plays in the huge baseball schedule.
- #2) MLB Grind Down – The DFS workhorse, Notorious breaks down the huge schedule on this Wednesday night. That’s right, a full breakdown of Every. Single. Team.
- #3) NBA Daily Plays – stlcardinals84, who contrary to a fals report from yesterday is still with us, gives you all the plays for tonight’s 13 game schedule in the NBA.
- #4) NBA Grind Down – The Spreadsheet Sorcerer (man I love that nickname) Ethan brings you the full breakdown of the NBA action to give you everything you need for your NBA research.
GrindersLive
- 3:30: The Afternoon Grind – csuram88 and DraftCheat get your day started with the early breakdown of tonight’s action in the NBA.
- 4:30: The DFS Happy Hour Presented by DraftStreet – Two premier baseball minds, BoggsLite and
Stevietpfl(UPDATE: Pepsi7 is stepping in for Stevie) step up to the plate to break down all the action on the diamond.
- 5:30: Grinders Live by “Our Sponsor” Draft Kings – The
ATMBash Brothers are back as TommyG andAl_Smizzle(UPDATE: Turns out the Smizz has some silly radio show on a radio station called “SiriusXM Fantasy”. Big deal. So Stevie is going to be subbing in for him) give you last minute news and analysis for the NBA games this evening.
Is there something else you’d like to see in this column? Questions or comments? Leave them below and we’d be happy to consider them. See you tomorrow!