Rise & Grind: Thursday, September 22nd
Merry Thursday and welcome back to yet another edition of the Rise & Grind, your daily spot to find all things daily fantasy sports. It’s Thursday, which can only mean one thing: the NFL is back in our lives again. Nothing better than a good Thursday Night Football game to get your weekend started.
We are here to get you all set up for what looks to be an intriguing matchup between the Houston Texans vs. the New England Patriots. So sit back, sip up your cup of Joe and get ready, because it’s gonna be a wild one. But first things first. Let’s take a look back at yesterday and see what unfolded.
Wednesday’s Winners
First let’s dive into one of our big winners last night, bentecshe scored a mighty 268.90 points claiming victory over the second place finisher tayhen11st. He got HUGE games out of not only his pitcher Corey Kluber but also his catcher Gary Sanchez, who continues shattering baseballs day-to-day. As you can see below the Philadelphia Phillies wrecked Chris Sale and again were found in winning GPP lineups like the one here in the $115K Wed MLB Squeeze on FanDuel. Congratulations to bentecshe and all the other winners tonight.
For all of Wednesday’s big winners, check out the Daily Fantasy Tournament Links thread here
GrindersLive Schedule – NFL & MLB
Okay, so we made it to Thursday, the day where things make sense again. The longing for throwing in three wide receivers instead of three outfielders has come to an end. Tonight is the night, but who do you play? Well take a gander here at what Grinders Live has in store for you and your lineup today. All our accomplished hosts are just a click away to help you fly up the leaderboard tonight. Whether it’s NFL or MLB you’re chasing, we’ve got you covered from head to toe.
GrindersLive
| 9/22 | Time (ET) | Hosts |
|---|---|---|
| NFL | 12:30 | Jakz101 / TheSeige / KillaB2482 (FD GPP) |
| NFL | 2:00 | BritDevine / Hoop2410 / HeadChopper (DK Cash) |
| NFL | 3:30 | DB730 / TheSeige / BigT44 (PlayDraft) |
| MLB | 4:30 | Jakz101 / CheeseIsGood |
| MLB | 5:30 | Dean78904 / Pepsi7 |
| MLB | 6:30 | Chris Culosi |
| NFL | 7:15 | BritDevine / Mike Tagliere / Brandon Marianne Lee |
| NFL | Periscope | STLCardinals84 |
- Remember all of these shows can be watched on demand after the original air date by visiting the GrindersLive homepage.
Upcoming Contests
Now that you know who you want to roster, you gotta figure out where you’re gonna play them. Good thing that both FanDuel & DraftKings are more than ready for you to jump into one of their colossal GPPs. No matter if you want to play twenty five cents or three hundred dollars, you’ll find a tournament that fits just right. Looky here at the widespread of contests that are available in a lobby near you.
| TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
|---|---|---|
| $125K Thu NFL Bomb ($125K Guaranteed, Thu-Mon) | $25 | $125,000 |
| $250K Thu NFL Rush ($40K to 1st, Thu-Mon) | $5 | $40,000 |
| $60K Thu NFL Squib (Single Entry) | $1 | $60,000 |
| $15K Thu NFL Touchdown (5 Entries Max) | $65 | $15,000 |
| $100K Thu NFL Snap ($100K Guaranteed, Thu-Mon) | $2 | $1000,000 |
| $50K Thu NFL Monster ($50K Guaranteed) | $300 | $50,000 |
| TOURNAMENT | BUY IN | PRIZE POOL |
|---|---|---|
| NFL $250K GRIDIRON | $27 | $250,000 |
| NFL $500K KICKOFF SPECIAL | $4 | $500,000 |
| NFL $100K BLITZ | $300 | $100,000 |
| NFL $75K PLAY-ACTION | $3 | $75,000 |
| NFL $40K SLANT | $9 | $40,000 |
| NFL $50K FIRST DOWN | $1 | $50,000 |
The DFS Showdown – Part II – Team Cash vs Team Crazy
If you guys missed my piece on this current phenomenon going on here at RotoGrinders, let me tell you what’s up.
Basically, there’s a good old fashioned best-of-seven DFS battle, squaring up between Team Cash (Derek Carty & Dean78904) vs Team Crazy (TheSeigeDFS & Stevietpfl).
The day after Team Cash ran away with game one of this showdown, we have the second installment. This time though it was actually a nailbiter, thanks to some woeful pitching choices by Team Cash, who got burned by “The Ace of The Slate”, Mr. Chris Sale.
With Sale’s $14,000, one-DK point outing, Team Crazy, aka Team Cray Cray as I like to call them, thought they had it in the bag. I mean, you couldn’t ask for a better head start…right?
Wrong. Team Cash got some pick-me-up from their catcher; that’s right I said their catcher – Salvador Perez had an insane night (for him at least), compiling 19 DraftKings points with two hits, a home run and two runs batted in.
Team Crazy went with their ace Corey Kluber, who had a really good outing against the Kansas City Royals, giving up just two runs and striking out nine poor souls and finishing with an impressive 27.45 DK & 52 FD points. Which fared pretty well for them, besides for the – let’s count em, one, two, three zeros they got from Carlos Gomez, Josh Bell and Manny Machado.
What clinched the win you ask? A well struck single to left field by Javier Baez sealed it for Team Cash; those three points are what separated them for good.
Final score Team Cash – 95.75 Team Crazy – 93.20
So Team Cash, now with a commanding 2-0 lead in this best-of-seven series between these two.
The next head-to-head is scheduled this Friday, so keep an eye out for round three.
Check out who played who, and how they did.
As these two teams went at it, there was another battle going on over on Twitter. That’s right an all out Twitter war between the two teams smothered my timeline. Here are snip-its of my faves. Mainly from the losing squad.
When it was all said and done TheSeigeDFS had his final tilt, right there in front of his 6,424 followers.
Thursday Night Football Contest
Thursday’s would just feel weird if there wasn’t an opportunity to win a deck of brand new limited edition RotoGrinders playing cards.
All you have to do is guess the amount of FanDuel points that Will Fuller of the Houston Texans will put up in this Thursday Night Football game against the undefeated New England Patriots.
Contest locks at game-time so type those guesses into our comments section below for your shot at this rare prize.
Good Luckeronie.
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!