Rise & Grind: August 8th, 2014
Welcome to the RotoGrinders Rise & Grind. 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.
In Case You Missed It
- Last Night’s Winners
- The Mariners putting up 13 runs last night led to some very high scores in the evening gpp’s. Grinders member djmoss (FD username canigetahottub) had a great night on FanDuel. In the 30k Strikeout. Dongs from Robinson Cano, Kyle Seager, and Dustin Ackley all from the Mariners pushed his score to 75.5 which was good enough to chop 1st place with user day92. They each received $4,250 for the 1st place tie. User Bronx_bomber17 also benefited from the Mariners offense going off, he scored 81.5 points with a Houston/Seattle stack and it was easily enough to take down the 50k Monster, djmoss (FD username canigetahottub) finished 2nd.
- WhiskeyTavon4 (ThaDongslayer on DK) is going to Atlantis for the Fantasy Baseball Championship after winning FBC Qualifier #33 last night on DraftKings with a score of 164. RayofHope continues to dominate, last night he won the 50k Perfect Game again putting up a score of 189 points with a Jon Lester and Homer Bailey pitching combo. The highest score I have seen from last night came from user Jester254 who put up an incredible 220 points led by a double dong by 1.9% owned Kolten Wong.
- Our new 4:30 pm Daily Fantasy Happy Hour sponsor FantasyAces has a RotoGrinders exclusive promo this today. If you can beat Notorious in a Salary Pro freeroll you will win $10. For full details click HERE
- Thursdays Dongs – There were an 21 dongs on Thursday, Kolten Wong of the Cardinals, Javier Baez of the Cubs, and Chris Carter of the Astros had double dongs.
Thursdays 5 longest DONGS
Hitter | Team | Length |
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Chris Carter | HOU | 416ft |
Ian Desmond | WSH | 413ft |
Starlin Castro | CHC | 403ft |
Giancarlo Stanton | MIA | 412ft |
Kolten Wong | STL | 412ft |
- NFL – Yesterday was the first full slate of NFL preseason games. Although there isn’t a large amount of DFS preseason action some sites like DraftDay do offer preseason contest. Here’s yesterdays week 1 preseason scores.
- Jets 13 – Colts 10
- Redskins 23 – Patriots 6
- Ravens 23 – 49ers 3
- Chiefs 41 – Bengals 39
- Broncos 21 – Seahawks 16
- Chargers 27 – Cowboys 7
- Love/Lebron combo – According to many media outlets the Cleveland Cavilers have reached a deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves that will send Kevin Love to the Cavs in exchange for Number 1 pick Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett, and a 2015 first round draft pick. The Cavs will now have Lebron James, Kevin Love, and Kyrie Irving which should give them a legitimate shot at winning a NBA title for the first time in 50 years. In other NBA news Kevin Durant decided to step away from Team USA and withdrawal from the FIBA World Cup yesterday, so he can take a mental and physical break from basketball.
Today’s MLB
- Today’s Action – Today we have 1 early game and a 14 game evening slate. The majority of today’s action starts at 7:05 pm.
Today’s GPPs
Here’s a quick snapshot of some of the biggest games available today.
FanDuel
TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
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$250k Fri MLB SUPER Monster | $200 | $250,000 |
$35K Fri MLB Strikeout | $25 | $35,000 |
$18K Fri MLB Squeeze | $2 | $18,000 |
$12.5k Fri High Roller Satellite | $1065 | $12,500 |
$12K Fri MLB Line Drive | $10 | $12,000 |
$3.5k Fri MLB Rally | $3000 | $3,500 |
DraftKings
TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
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MLB $100K Perfect Game | $200 | $100,000 |
MLB $35K Payoff Pitch | $27 | $35,000 |
MLB $10K Silver Slugger | $530 | $10,000 |
MLB $4K High Heat | $109 | $4,000 |
MLB $15K Moon Shot | $2 | $15,000 |
MLB $15K Check Swing | $12 | $15,000 |
MLB $5K Flare | $5 | $5,000 |
FantasyAces
TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | Format |
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MLB $550 Frozen Rope | $11 | Classic |
MLB 50/50 Guarantee | $11 | Classic |
MLB 50/50 Guarantee | $22 | Classic |
MLB Salary Pro 50/50 | $11 | Salary Pro |
MLB $109 Winner Take all | $109 | Classic |
DraftDay
TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
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MLB $2.5k Field of Dreams | $109 | $2,500 |
MLB $1.5k Knucleball | $15 | $1,500 |
MLB $1k Wiz Walkoff | $3.30 | $1000 |
MLB $116 Big League Blast Qualifier | $116 | $2,120 |
MLB $250 R.A Pickey (Pickem) | $5.50 | $250 |
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 | Stlcardinals84 gives you all the plays you’ll need for tonight’s schedule. | |||||
# 3 ) | Daily Pitcher Breakdown | Psporer digs deep into the advanced pitching stats to find you the arms with the best matchups tonight. | |||||
# 4 ) | Daily Hitter Breakdown | Varcass shows you all the splits and points out the bats in the best situations for tonight’s slate. | |||||
# 5 ) | Head-to-Head vs. GPP | Pepsi7 separates the high floor players from the high ceiling guys to help you construct your rosters for every game type. |
Grinders Live Schedule | |||||||
TIME | SHOW | SPONSOR | |||||
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3:30 PM | The Afternoon Grind | Fight that early afternoon boredom with expert baseball analysis from Billsfan777 and Pepsi7. | |||||
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 BritDevine and BoggsLite serve you up some knowledge. | ||||
5:30 PM | Grinders Live | DraftKings | Dean and StlCards 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!