Rise & Grind: NFL Week 8
Welcome to the RotoGrinders Rise & Grind NFL edition! We have a huge week of NFL action approaching, so let’s take a quick look at some upcoming tournaments and the Grinders Live schedule.
In Case You Missed It
- Last Week’s Winners
Another week, another exciting Monday night sweat for a million dollars. This week it was RayofHope taking down the top spot and the $1 million prize thanks to a solid Monday night game from Le’Veon Bell. The 28.5 DK points scored by Bell was more than enough to take the lead from eventual second-place finisher OSUbase in the $2.2M Millionaire Maker on DraftKings.
If that wasn’t impressive enough RayofHope also took down the top 2 spots in the Sunday 300 Grand with a completely different lineup than he used in the Millionaire Maker.
Over on FanDuel, Hatorade dominated the Sunday Million, beating the second place finisher jiggyjabberjaw by over 10 points and taking down the first place prize of $200k.
Hatorade also picked up a ticket to the $10 million FFFC final in the $10 Qualifier and jiggyjabberjaw also won a seat to the live final in the $25 Qualifier
In the $1065 FFFC Qualifier, RotoGrinders own Cal won his $70,000 FFFC ticket, continuing his incredible NFL season.
For all of the weekend’s big winners, check out the Daily Fantasy Tournament Links thread here.
- Grinders Live 2014: Week 8 NFL Schedule
Here’s a look this week’s upcoming NFL Grinders Live episodes.
| Grinders Live Schedule | |||||||
| TIME | SHOW | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WED 8:00 PM | NFL First Look | —————————————————————————————————————————————————The NFL content will begin on Wednesday night with NFL First Look (8:00 ET). This show will be hosted by Brit Devine (Top 50 NFL Ranking), BoggsLite (Top 100 Ranking) & Chris “Beermakersfan” Prince (2011 FFFC Champ & recently featured on ESPN). These top players will give you their first impressions going into Week 8. ————————————————————————————————————————————— | |||||
| THURS 7:00 PM | NFL GameNight | ——————————————————————————————————————————————On Thursday night (7:00 ET) we bring you NFL GameNight to help you put those finishing touches on those early week NFL lineups. Emac (Top 50 Ranking) holds the hosting reigns and will by joined by top ranked player STLCardinals84 & new addition to GrindersLive, Bryan Fontaine. Fontaine spent a number of years writing for Pro Football Focus & wrote one of the most popular Daily Fantasy articles on RotoGrinders last football season. ————————————————————————————————————————————— | |||||
| FRI 8:00 PM | NFL Experts Roundtable | —————————————————————————————————————————————The big boys come out to play Friday on the NFL Experts Roundtable . This show is hosted by former FFFC champ and recent $1 million winner Peter Jennings (CSURAM88). He will engage in deep thinking daily fantasy football discussion with last year’s TPOY Champ Al Zeidenfeld (AlSmizzle) and Adam Levitan of Rotoworld.com. Adam has won multiple FSWA writing awards and has become one of the first mainstream fantasy writers to embrace and analyze fantasy on a daily level —————————————————————————————————————————————. | |||||
| SUN 10:30 AM | The Opening Drive | ——————————————————————————————————————————————On Sunday morning we will bring you two hours of entertaining and informative Daily Fantasy discussion before rosters lock for the day. The Opening Drive (10:30 ET) will pit Dean78904 alongside STLCardinals & DraftCheat (Top 10 Ranking & TPOY) for your early look at the top plays of the day. Our NFL GameDay show begins at 11:30 ET, as our Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio combination of Dan Back & Al Zeidenfeld are joined by top 50 NFL grinder John “TipandPick” Lee. John was a finalist in the DraftStreet Football Championship last year & joined the popular site Footballguys.com as their lead Daily Fantasy contributor —————————————————————————————————————————————. | |||||
- Remember all of these shows can be watched on demand after the original air date by visiting the Grinders Live homepage here
- Giant GPPs Everywhere! Again, have some massive NFL action this week on every site. Here’s a look at some of the biggest games available.
FanDuel
| TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
|---|---|---|
| $2.5M NFL Sunday Million | $25 | $2,500,000 |
| $500K Sunday Kickoff | $10 | $500,000 |
| $500K Sunday Monster | $200 | $500,000 |
| $225K Thursday Bomb | $25 | $225,000 |
| $100K Thursday Rush | $5 | $100,000 |
| $2 FFFC Qualifier | $2 | $103,500 |
| $5 FFFC Qualifier | $5 | $103,500 |
| $10 FFFC Qualifier | $10 | $103,500 |
| $25 FFFC Qualifier | $25 | $103,500 |
DraftKings
| TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
|---|---|---|
| NFL $2.2M Millionaire Maker | $27 | $2,200,000 |
| NFL 300K Sunday 300 Grand | $200 | $300,0000 |
| NFL $100K Play Action | $2 | $100,000 |
| NFL 40K Thursday Gridiron | $27 | $400,000 |
| NFL KOTB Qualifier | $12 | $65,000 |
| NFL KOTB Qualifier | $27 | $65,000 |
| NFL KOTB Qualifier | $1000 | $65,000 |
| NFL KOTB Qualifier | $2 | $70,000 |
| NFL 100k Thursday Hail Mary | $12 | $100,000 |
FantasyAces
| TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | Format |
|---|---|---|
| NFL Top 15 Guarantee Thurs-Mon | $15 | Classic |
| NFL Week 8 24K +FAFC Qualifier | $109 | Classic |
| NFL Top 20 | $11 | Classic |
| NFL Top 30 | $5.50 | Salary Pro |
DraftDay
| TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
|---|---|---|
| NFL $15K The Benjamin | $100 | $15,000 |
| NFL 10K Frenzy | $15 | $10,000 |
| NFL 5K Third and Short | $3.30 | $5000 |
| NFL $1K Thursday Frenzy | $20 | $1000 |
| NFL $1K Limelight Primetime | $109 | $1000 |
- We’re trying not to forget about DFS rookies, either. If you know someone interested, you should share our Beginner’s Guides to One-Week Fantasy Football, that we’re rolling out. It starts with the basics, as we talk about what exactly one-week fantasy football is.
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 next week!