Rise & Grind: August 13th, 2014
Welcome to the RotoGrinders Rise & Grind. Start your Wednesday off with a look back at the weekend’s happenings and a peek at the upcoming day in the world of DFS.
In Case You Missed It
- Yesterdays Winners
Tuesday brought some huge GPP action for the 15 game MLB slate, DraftKings ran two FBC Mega Qualifiers and awarded a total of 6 seats to the Atlantis Fantasy Baseball Championship. Grinders member DraconFire entered a single entry in the $27 FBC Qualifier and beat out the 1890 player field with an under owned 5 man Oakland A’s stack that totaled 178.5 points.
In the $200 FBC Qualifier the top 5 finishers all received Atlantis FBC championship seats. Again, DraconFire took the top spot with his A’s stack at 178.5 points, Illinsquad finished in second with 176.4 points, bw5126 tied for third place with user TheVault scoring 173.5 points and the final FBC seat went to Grinders U Lead Instructor Jon Bales.
- FanDuel also ran some giant tournaments yesterday. The biggest was the $25 100k DFBC Warm Up. This tournament had 4177 entries and paid out $15,000 to first place. Again, it was a low owned Oakland stack and the double dong from Josh Donaldson that pushed user ImYourHuckleberry to the top spot with a score of 65.5.
FanDuel The huge action continues tonight on FanDuel with the $10 100k Guaranteed Micro Championship
- Tuesday Dongs There were 23 dongs in Tuesdays MLB action and 3 double dongs!! John Donaldson of the Athletics and Chris Carter of the Astros and Oswaldo Arcia of the twins all went deep twice.
TOP 5 DONGS
| Hitter | Team | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Yoenis Cespedes | BOS | 435ft |
| Josh Donaldson | OAK | 425ft |
| Chris Carter | HOU | 422ft |
| Adam Dunn | CWS | 416ft |
| Alex Avila | DET | 414ft |
- MLB Championship Events
- Draftkings – $3.3 Million FBC – August 26th
- FanDuel – $3 Million DFBC – August 16th
- StarStreet – $200k PFBC – August 23rd
- DraftDay – $250k Big League Blast – September 2nd
- FantasyAces – Survivor Championship – August 25th
Today’s Events
Tonight’s MLB – Here’s a snapshot of todays MLB games and Vegas odds from the RotoGrinders Vegas Odds and Lines Page.
Here’s a quick look at some of the biggest games offered today.
FanDuel
| TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
|---|---|---|
| $100K Wed MLB Micro Championship | $10 | $100,000 |
| $45K Wed Monster | $200 | $45,000 |
| $25K Wed MLB Monster | $200 | $25,000 |
| $16K Wed MLB Slugger | $1,065 | $16000 |
| $16K Wed MLB Squeeze | $2 | $16,000 |
| $6K Tue MLB Line Drive (Early) | $10 | $6,000 |
DraftKings
| TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
|---|---|---|
| MLB FBC Qualifier #42 | $1000 | $67,000 |
| MLB 50k Perfect Game | $200 | $50,000 |
| MLB $30K Payoff Pitch | $27 | $30,000 |
| MLB $10K Check Swing | $12 | $10,000 |
| MLB $18K Moon Shot | $2 | $18,000 |
| MLB $15k Early Perfect Game | $200 | $15,000 |
FantasyAces
| TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | Format |
|---|---|---|
| MLB Top 5 Booster 5x | $11 | Salary Pro |
| MLB 10k Survivor Qualifier | $11 | Classic |
| MLB Top 5 Guarantee | $5.50 | Salary Pro |
| MLB 50/50 Guarantee | $22 | Classic |
| MLB Salary Pro 50/50 | $55 | Salary Pro |
| MLB $109 Winner Take all | $109 | Classic |
DraftDay
| TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
|---|---|---|
| MLB $1.5k Field of Dreams | $109 | $1,500 |
| MLB $1k Knucleball | $15 | $1,000 |
| MLB $600k Wiz Walkoff | $3.30 | $600 |
| MLB Big League Blast Qualifier | $116 | $1060 |
| MLB $200 R.A Pickey (Pickem) | $5.50 | $200 |
| MLB $1k $109 Double Play | $109 | $1000 |
On the Grinders Schedule
| Daily Articles |
| #1) | MLB Grind Down | Notorious breaks down all the matchups in tonight’s action on the diamond in one quick, easy to read location. |
| #2) | MLB Daily Plays | Pepsi gives you all the plays you’ll need for tonight’s schedule. |
| #3) | Pitcher Breakdown | Psporer digs deep into the advanced pitching stats to find you the arms with the best matchups tonight. |
| #4) | Hitter Breakdown | Varcass shows you all the splits and points out the bats in the best situations for tonight’s slate. |
| #6) | MLB First Look | Notorious gives you an early peek at tomorrows games, matchups, and players to target. |
| Grinders Live Schedule | |||||||
| TIME | SHOW | SPONSOR | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:30 PM | The Afternoon Grind | Fight that early afternoon boredom with expert baseball analysis from Notorious and BeerMakersFan. | |||||
| 4:30 PM | Daily Fantasy Happy Hour | FantasyAces | Does your local happy hour have awesome baseball analysis? Didn’t think so. Join us this afternoon and let Dean and DraftCheat serve you up some knowledge. | ||||
| 5:30 PM | Grinders Live | DraftKings | STLcards and BritDevine will take you right up to first pitch with our flagship Grinders Live show. | ||||
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!